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. Gil Dezer 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 Dezer 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.
Gil Dezer's 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.
Gil Dezer's 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.
Gil Dezer's 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 Gil Dezer's automotive-branded Porsche tower next door.
Bentley Residences — groundbreaking in 2024 — is the world's first Bentley-branded residential tower. Gil Dezer extended 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, Gil 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.
Gil Dezer's Trump Partnership: The Six Towers That Built Sunny Isles
Before Porsche and Armani, Gil Dezer and 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.
Gil Dezer and 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. Gil Dezer's 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 Michael Shvo (Miami Beach and Brickell, not Sunny Isles — lost both major Miami projects in 2025), and the Related Group (Jorge Pérez, who is Cuban-American and co-develops with Gil Dezer but is not Israeli).
Gil Dezer's 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 by Michael Dezer since 1995, is irreplaceable. Oceanfront land is finite. The Dezers own more of it than anyone else on that stretch of coast.
Gil Dezer: Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Gil Dezer?
Gil Dezer (born 1975) is the president and CEO of Dezer Development, the Sunny Isles Beach luxury developer behind Porsche Design Tower, Armani/Casa, Bentley Residences, and six Trump-branded towers. Son of Michael Dezer.
What is Gil Dezer's net worth?
Gil Dezer's net worth is not publicly reported. His family's holdings include 27 oceanfront acres in Sunny Isles Beach, 20+ New York properties, and developments valued at $2B+.
What is the Dezervator?
A patented robotic car elevator designed by Gil Dezer for the Porsche Design Tower — delivers residents and their cars from the ground floor to private sky garages inside their units. Three cars per unit. Glass-walled. Extended to four cars per unit in Bentley Residences.
What is Bentley Residences?
The world's first Bentley-branded residential tower, developed by Gil Dezer's Dezer Development in Sunny Isles Beach. Groundbreaking 2024. Four-car sky garage per unit. Rooftop pool at 749 feet. Among the tallest residential buildings in the US south of New York.
How many towers has Gil Dezer built?
Nine luxury towers in Sunny Isles Beach: six Trump-branded towers (2,000+ units), Porsche Design Tower (132 units), Armani/Casa (308 units), and Bentley Residences (under construction). Additional projects filed in 2026.
Is Gil Dezer Israeli?
Gil Dezer is Israeli-American. His father Michael Dezer was born in Tel Aviv, served in the Israeli Air Force, and emigrated to the United States.
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