Principals for The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami Beach gather Tuesday to celebrate the start of construction of the luxury residences. From left are Christina Villa, ADD Inc., Allison Greenfield, partner of Lionheart Capital, George Mato, director of sales with The Ritz-Carlton, Ophir Sternberg, CEO of Lionheart Capital, Ritz butler Raul Becerra and Nicoletta Canesi of Lissoni Associates.

Now being built in Miami Beach, this seven-acre lakeside development by acclaimed Italian architect Piero Lissoni will be one of a select few standalone Ritz-Carlton Residences in the world.

The award-winning Italian architect and designer Piero Lissoni and Miami-based architecture firm ADD Inc. have teamed up to create a new residential compound – Lissoni’s first-ever full-scale architectural work in the United States. The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami beach, which launched sales in November, will comprise 111 luxury condominiums and 15 single-family villas and is minutes from Miami’s numerous museums, including Perez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), as well as world-class golf courses and Bal Harbour’s high-end shopping.

Lionheart Capital, the developer of The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami Beach, recently hosted an intimate cocktail reception for the United Way of Miami-Dade’s Tocqueville Society.

Lionheart Capital conjures up the second in a series of ultra-luxury branded residences right in the heart of Miami’s Mid-Beach area.

Lionheart Capital’s newest luxury waterfront development is comprised of 111 condominium residences and 15 private single-family villas. The Ritz-Carlton Residences, Miami Beach will be one of only a few stand-alone Ritz-Carlton Residences in the world. Contact Premier Sales Group at the on-site sales gallery at 4701 North Meridian Avenue, Miami Beach, FL.

In January of 2009, as the Bush White House quietly packed up and left Washington, the Dow was at an anemic 7,949 and the unemployment rate was at 7.8% and growing like a fever. The next few years were not happy ones as America picked up its collective bootstraps and trudged on, many of us unified in working for a better tomorrow. Cut to March of 2014, and, as we go to press, the Dow hovers over 16,000 and unemployment is about 6.7% with new jobs numbers the best they have been in a long while.

Brits are drawn to Miami by the “three Ws: weather, water, way of life”, says George Mato, the sales director for Ritz-Carlton Residences, a high-end development of 111 condominiums and 15 private family villas designed by the modernist Italian architect Pierro Lissoni.