President/CEO Dezer Development. 27 oceanfront acres in Sunny Isles Beach. Porsche Design Tower, Armani/Casa, Bentley Residences, six Trump towers. Patented the Dezervator. One of the largest private oceanfront owners in the US.
Gil Dezer (born 1975) is the president and CEO of Dezer Development — the Sunny Isles Beach-based firm that owns 27 acres of prime oceanfront property and has built nine luxury high-rise towers that redefined one of Florida's most valuable coastal strips. He is one of the largest private oceanfront property owners in the United States.
Son of Michael Dezer — the Israeli-born founder who started acquiring Sunny Isles properties in 1995. Gil took the family's land bank and turned it into a branded luxury development machine: Porsche Design Tower, Residences by Armani/Casa, Bentley Residences, and six Trump-branded towers. The combined development value exceeds $2 billion.
Porsche Design Tower: The Building That Changed Branded Real Estate
The Porsche Design Tower (completed 2017) is a 60-story, 132-unit oceanfront tower in Sunny Isles Beach — and the project that made Gil Dezer a global name in luxury development. Its signature innovation: the patented "Dezervator" — a robotic car elevator enclosed in glass that delivers residents and their automobiles from the ground-floor arrival plaza directly to their private sky garages inside their units. Three cars per unit. Glass-walled. Overlooking the Atlantic.
The concept was radical: merge automotive culture with residential living at the ultra-luxury tier. The tower attracted international UHNW buyers — Israeli, Latin American, Russian, European — who treat Sunny Isles as a primary or secondary residence. Unit prices ranged from $3 million to $33 million at launch. The Dezervator became the most-discussed architectural feature in South Florida real estate and generated global press coverage that positioned Sunny Isles Beach as a destination brand.
Armani/Casa, Bentley Residences, and the Branded Development Model
Residences by Armani/Casa — co-developed with Jorge Pérez's Related Group — brought the Italian fashion house's residential design language to Sunny Isles. 56 stories, 308 units. The interior design vocabulary — Armani furniture, custom finishes, brand-specified materials — positioned the tower as a fashion-branded alternative to the automotive-branded Porsche tower next door.
Bentley Residences — groundbreaking in 2024 — is the world's first Bentley-branded residential tower. The project extends the Dezervator concept: a four-car sky garage per unit, the Bentley design studio collaborating on interiors, and a rooftop pool at 749 feet. When completed, it will be among the tallest residential buildings in the United States south of New York.
In 2026, Dezer Development partnered with Related Group and BH Group (Isaac and Liat Toledano) to file plans for a 62-story, 145-unit luxury condo tower at 19051 Collins Avenue — following a $131.8 million buyout of the existing 108-unit Miami Beach Club. Additionally, Dezer filed for Dezerland Park West — a 586-unit residential development in North Miami, representing the firm's first move beyond Sunny Isles into the broader Miami-Dade residential market.
The Trump Partnership and the Six Towers That Built Sunny Isles
Before Porsche and Armani, Dezer Development built six Trump-branded towers in Sunny Isles Beach — developed in partnership with Donald Trump. Trump Towers I, II, and III. Trump International. Trump Palace. Trump Royale. The Trump name provided sales velocity in the mid-2000s international buyer market. The Dezer name provided the land, the development execution, and the Sunny Isles franchise.
The Trump-Dezer relationship was commercial, not political: a licensing and co-development arrangement that leveraged Trump's brand recognition among international luxury buyers. The towers collectively contain over 2,000 units and transformed Sunny Isles from a mid-market beach town into one of the most concentrated luxury condo corridors in the United States.
The Dezer Collection: 1,000 Cars and the Miami Auto Museum
Beyond real estate, Michael and Gil Dezer are among the world's most significant private car collectors. The Dezer Collection — housed in the Miami Auto Museum at Dezerland Park in North Miami — displays over 1,000 vehicles including American classics, rare European models, Hollywood "star cars," and one of the world's largest collections of James Bond props and vehicles. The museum is a commercial operation and tourist attraction, but it also functions as a branding vehicle: the same family that builds car elevators into luxury towers maintains a museum-scale automotive collection. The vertical integration of car culture and real estate is deliberate.
Where Gil Dezer Sits in the Florida–Israel Builder Hierarchy
Gil Dezer is the most prominent Israeli-American developer in Florida — measured by oceanfront acreage, development value, and brand partnerships. His competitive set includes Adam Neumann's Flow (different market segment — rental vs. condo), Michael Shvo (Miami Beach and Brickell, not Sunny Isles), and the Related Group (Jorge Pérez, who is Cuban-American and co-develops with Dezer but is not Israeli).
The Dezer model — Israeli family land bank, global luxury brand partnerships, international buyer networks, patented architectural innovations — is unique in American real estate. No other developer has replicated the combination. And the 27-acre oceanfront position in Sunny Isles, accumulated since 1995, is irreplaceable. Oceanfront land is finite. The Dezers own more of it than anyone else on that stretch of coast.
