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.

Step into a sales center at one of dozens of new real estate projects scattered throughout South Florida, and you enter a brightly lit, make-believe world of staggering views and designer interiors — often even before a shovel digs into the ground.

Laurie Ingber and Carolyn Ellert of Premier Sales Group are joined by Mayi de la Vega of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty for sales and marketing of the luxury residential development.

It’s been 10 years since the arrival of Richard Meier’s twin glass towers on the West Village’s Perry Street — whose iconic architecture and celebrity residents helped the project achieve record pricing. Yet while the bold-named buyers were certainly newsworthy, the towers also came with an undeniable downside: The apartments’ concrete, open-plan interiors required ample time, money and effort to make livable — despite their original seven-figure price tags.

Martha Stewart isn’t one to miss a posh party. The domestic goddess worked the room at a VIP reception put on by Lionheart Capital and Du Jour magazine to celebrate the upcoming Ritz-Carlton Residences Miami Beach Friday evening, at the site of the old Miami Heart Institute.

The domestic goddess dished her love for the city at a DuJour party Friday night during the South Beach Wine and Food Festival at the Ritz-Carlton Residences.