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"When people said, ‘You can’t do it,’ he never listened."
Real estate pioneer Tibor Hollo, who transformed a once-neglected downtown Miami with high-rise hotels, condos and office buildings, died on Wednesday.
He was 96.
Hollo was the chairman and president of the Brickell-based development firm Florida East Coast Realty, which he established in 1972.
His buildings changed the Edgewater and downtown Miami skylines at a time when some questioned the area’s future.
Hollo’s roots go back to Budapest, where he was born in 1927.
At age 6, Hollo’s parents moved to Paris, where seven years later the city fell under Nazi Germany’s control.
Hollo and his parents were taken to a concentration camp in Auschwitz in 1941.
Hollo and his father survived, but neither of them saw Hollo’s mother again.
Throughout his life and well into his 90s, Hollo shared his experience of the Holocaust.
Read more at the Miami Herald
