Miami Tower
Forty-seven-story skyscraper with three glass tiers lit nightly in shifting colors above the skyline.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Miami Tower opens with a federal inventory of what investigators found in a hidden executive suite once at its top: a bulletproof glass shower door, gold-plated fixtures, and a marble staircase that alone cost nearly a million dollars. You'll meet David Paul, the Miami banker who bought a failing savings and loan for thirty-two million dollars in 1983, renamed it CenTrust, and turned it into the largest thrift in the southeastern United States within a few years, spending on this tower and on a yacht and a Rubens painting along the way.
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