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...billions in narcobucks, as police have dubbed the drug money, allow its recipients to buy, in cash, $1 million waterfront homes, $50,000 Mercedes and $400 bottles of wine. One drug kingpin alone has bought up some $20 million worth of prime Miami real estate. Says Miami Financial Analyst Charles Kimball: "Criminals have become conspicuous buyers of some of the best properties in South Florida...
...time Donald Steinberg was 28, he and his Fort Lauderdale "company" owned waterfront homes and office buildings in Florida, apartments in Houston and a town house in New York City that was later sold for $2 million. With his partners, he maintained a fleet of three dozen or more boats-no one kept count-and a cash reserve so large they could shrug off million-dollar business losses. Eventually they had to buy their own turboprop airplane to ferry overflowing cash profits to uninquisitive banks in the Bahamas and Cayman Islands...
...gofer." The angry speaker is a man named Michael Gallagher. It is his misfortune to be the son and nephew of mobsters and to look as if he might be following in the family tradition under cover of managing an import business on the Miami waterfront. It is an impression that his dress, manner and accent do nothing to correct. The gofer under verbal assault is Megan Carter, and it is her misfortune to be the sort of newspaperperson who believes in first impressions-and second and third ones, when she is led from one to the next...
...balding, bespectacled man who looks like ?and has been?an elder of the Presbyterian Church. On a recent late-morning tour of Harborplace, he was dressed like an avuncular preppie in a blue button-down shirt, a loud madras jacket and Bass Weejun loafers. Ankling around his waterfront pavilions, he is not so much a monarch surveying his turf as a wide-eyed tourist in a wonderland of consumer goodies. In the Light Street Pavilion, he sniffs the potted hydrangeas at the entrance, saunters beamishly past scores of food outlets, surveys Remembering You, a handsomely stocked gift shop...
...River. But Rouse is not about to retire to his watery fastness. In April he announced a new venture, the Enterprise Development Corp., owned by a nonprofit organization, the Enterprise Foundation. The most ambitious Enterprise enterprise to date is a $13.5 million program to spruce up Norfolk's dreary waterfront. The project, about half the size of Harborplace, will employ much the same concept and include four or five restaurants, up to 20 other eating establishments and as many as 50 stores. Rouse estimates that the development will attract up to 6 million visitors in its first year. The foundation...