How Jeffrey Soffer turned the Fontainebleau name into a real estate empire

Of Donald Soffer’s six children, two are real estate CEOs: Jeffrey and Jackie.  The late patriarch, worth $2 billion when he died at 92 last summer, purchased swampland in 1967 and turned it into Aventura. Today, Jeffrey Soffer, who split from the family empire in 2019 with several key properties, is building his own dynasty bookended by his iconic South Florida waterfront resort, Fontainebleau Miami Beach, and its sister property in the Nevada desert, Fontainebleau Las Vegas.  In his latest move to keep Fontainebleau Miami Beach relevant in a hyper-competitive hospitality market, Soffer’s push for a 99-foot waterslide tower, which […]This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.