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The agleam white, postmodern Miami-area location made celebrated successful Brian De Palma’s Scarface is connected nan market, according to reports from The Miami Herald and others. The asking price? A cool $237 million.
The 2.38-acre spot is situated connected nan h2o successful Key Biscayne. It boasts 868 feet of h2o frontage, a vessel dock, a 20,000 sqaure-foot overwater helipad and piano-shaped pool. The 13,000 square-foot location itself includes floor-to-ceiling windows pinch a position of Biscayne Bay and nan Miami skyline, 5 bedrooms and a steel-and-glass elevator.
The elevator is nan centerpiece of 1 one nan movie’s astir memorable scenes — of which location are many. In it, Tony (Al Pacino) visits nan location of his caller boss, nan drug/car trader Frank (Robert Loggia). As they banter, Frank’s “girl” Elvira (Michelle Pfeiffer) descends successful nan building’s see-through elevator. It’s an entranceway akin to Scarlett O’Hara descending nan staircase astatine Terra. Tony is transfixed.
The spot has a provenance that goes acold beyond Scarface. In nan early ’70s, it was portion of a compound known arsenic The Winter White House wherever Richard Nixon often stayed — albeit successful a overmuch much humble bungalow. The helipad was built astir that time. The bungalow was later demolished.
The existent building was built successful astir 1981 by a man named Roberto Striedinger, who was a aviator “convicted of smuggling cocaine for nan Medellín supplier cartel,” according to 1 relationship cited by nan Wall Street Journal. Fitting, then, that nan building besides features successful nan credits of Miami Vice.
According to nan Herald, if nan spot goes for anyplace adjacent asking, it will easy beryllium nan priciest location ever sold successful Miami-Dade County. The opinionated grounds belongs to a March waste to Mark Zuckerberg. He paid $170M for connected unfinished location connected Indian Creek island.
