A single-family private residence on a 1-acre site in an unincorporated neighborhood of Miami-Dade County, Florida. The home consists of a 7,000 square foot main building and 400 square foot pool cabana. The home was designed by Raul Sotolongo with the help of Sara Blanche.

The site is located in a cul-de-sac which had previously been a 7-acre private estate but was subdivided in separate lots after Hurricane Andrew. The site is blessed with large stands of mature native trees. The home was sited so as to preserve the existing trees, resulting in a floor plan consisting of and entry pavilion (containing guest bedrooms and a children’s playroom) which is connected to the main public spaces and family living quarters by a long, large-windowed gallery. The gallery opens to a two-story living room, grand staircase and cupola. Besides the living room, the ground floor contains a formal dining room, family room, billiard room, library/study, kitchen and breakfast room. The master bedroom suite and two children’s bedrooms are on the second floor.

The rural-like site inspired the “Florida Cracker” architectural style. The front pavilion is an adaptation of a “dog trot” home common to early rural Florida settlers. The larger, rear part of the home is patterned on the basics of a “Georgia Four-Square” – a common design of southern architecture, including early Florida homes. The home features deep, broad porches, large roof overhangs and metal roofs.

The home was one of four finalists for the top award in architecture from the Builders’ Association of South Florida in 2002, garnering their “Best” Platinum awards in both architecture and interior design.




Arbor Courts is a development of 284 townhomes completed in 1990. It is located in Kings Meadow, at the southwest corner of SW 137th Avenue and N. Kendall Drive in West Kendall, Miami-Dade County, Florida. The site was developed with linear parks and man-made lakes surrounding the 20-acres (out of the 640-acre Kings Meadow). Contrary to much of the land planning seen in the suburbs using curvy roads, cul-de-sacs and dead end, the site was planned with a gridded street pattern with numerical and alphabetized streets to allow guests and residents to find their way.

The townhomes were built of solid, poured-in-place concrete (including the intermediate and roof slabs), four units to a building in a pinwheel layout. Each townhome is a corner unit with an L-shaped floor plan resulting in each having a completely private courtyard. The structures proved to be quite sturdy inasmuch as the Arbor Courts townhomes were the only residential structures in the area that did not suffer any significant damage from the ravages of Hurricane Andrew in 1992.



Acquisition of 20 acres in Pembroke Pines, Florida, where we have master planned an 186,000 square foot, seven building, professional office park (also know as Flamingo Falls Professional Center) and completed construction of a 4-story 54,600 square foot building, leased to tenants such as American Title and Horizon Bank.



Acquisition and management of a 14,600 square foot office building in Coral Gables, occupied by Baccardi and Eastern National Bank.



Acquisition, renovation, management and refinancing of a 95,000 square foot office building in Hialeah, with tenants such as NationsBank, Lockheed Martin and the Miami Herald.




Acquisition, leasing and management of Marina Lakes Tower, a 49,000 square foot office building located in the Marina Lakes Business Park, Miami, Florida.



Acquisition, renovation, leasing and management of a 44,000 square foot professional office building located in Coral Springs, Florida.