A guide to the Florida getaways of Toronto’s wealthiest
Sixteen sun-seeking Torontonians who call the sunshine state home for at least part of the year
By Iman Sheikh
| January 20, 2016
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Vero Beach
Galen and Hilary WestonLoblaw titans
They own a sprawling oceanside house in Windsor, their 168-hectare, 300-home private luxury community. The house has a fountain and neoclassical courtyard.
(Image: Dustin Saylor)
Palm Beach
Kimberley Newport-Mimran and Joe MimranDesign duo
They bought a three-bedroom, 3,483-square-foot home with a pool in 2011 for $2.14 million.
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(Image: Courtesy of Joe Mimran)
John BitoveSatellite radio exec
The Raptors co-founder bought a 10,494-square-foot, eight-bedroom palace in 2002 for $6.3 million. It backs onto a Jack Nicklaus–designed golf course.
Larry TanenbaumChair of MLSE and Kilmer Van Nostrand
The most powerful name in Toronto sports bought a waterfront lot for $21 million in 2008, then had designer-builder to the stars Joe Brennan construct an 8,000-square-foot home with space for Larry and Judy, and their three children’s families.
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Julian BhartiMerchant banker
The eldest son of Forbes and Manhattan founder Stan Bharti (and, perhaps most famously, the man who paid $89,000 to smooch Elizabeth Hurley at an Elton John AIDS fundraiser) owns a 3,843-square-foot house with four bedrooms, four and a half baths, a lap pool and a putting green. It’s on the market for $6.5 million.
Robert JulienInvestor
The CEO of real estate investment firm the Kolter Group bought an oceanside 11,986-square-foot, nine-bed, 10-bath estate for $16.5 million in 2005.
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Boca Raton
Jim DeGasperisDeveloper
The president of Con-Strada Construction owns a condo in a seaside resort called Addison on the Ocean, with a private beach, two swimming pools and full-time cabana staff.
Fort Lauderdale
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Mike WekerleChair and founder of Difference Capital, and a CBC Dragon
In 2014, Bay Street’s rock and roll financier bought a $13.4-million, 12,533-square-foot mansion, which was built for the Anheuser-Busch family in 1938. It has six bedrooms, 11 bathrooms and 160 metres of deep-water frontage.
Miami
George Yabu and Glenn PushelbergSuperstar interior designers
They bought a three-bedroom, two-bath, 1,820-square-foot 1950s bungalow in 1997 for $365,000, and renovated extensively.
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Stephan WeishauptFounder of the Avenue Road interior design store
He bought this 1932 art deco house on Biscayne Bay for $1.74 million in 2013. It has five bedrooms and five and a half baths over 4,128 square feet, and is the site of a bash for designer types during Art Basel every year.
(Image: Courtesy of Avenue Road)
Rana and Richard FloridaCreative Class personalities
After the market meltdown, they pounced on this 1,800-square-foot, two-bedroom, three-bathroom Miami Beach condo on Biscayne Bay.
(Image: Moris Moreno)
Christine RalphsFashion designer
The co-founder of Club Monaco and current co-owner of Lloyd Ralphs Design has an 800-square-foot cabana-style condo with ocean views in Surfside. Her business partner, Michelle Lloyd Bermann, lives in a 1,200-square-foot two-bedroom condo with wraparound balconies just steps away.
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(Image: Robin Hill)
(Photographs of Weishaupt courtesy of Avenue Road, Bitove by Vanessa Heins, and Ralphs by George Pimentel; all other portraits by Getty Images. Illustrations by Aleksandar Janicijevic)
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