Two entities tied to Marlon Gomez lost a distressed Miami River development site at a courthouse auction, marking the second time in six months that the Miami developer was forced to give up land.<\/p>\n
An affiliate of the Fiorentino Family Office bought the 1.8-acre assemblage at 1515, 1529 and 1543 Northwest South River Drive<\/a> with a $15,600 winning bid last week, Miami-Dade County Circuit Court records show.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Fiorentino affiliate obtained a $12.8 million final judgment on Jan. 30 against Gomez, his entities and his former development partners, Fausto Callava and Antonio Pardo.\u00a0<\/p>\n The lender sued Gomez, Callava and Pardo last year for allegedly defaulting on a $10 million<\/a> loan that matured last February. Accrued interest and fees pushed the judgment to $12.8 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n The site hit the market in 2024 with an asking price of $25 million<\/a>, which was slashed to $18 million<\/a> last year when a court-appointed receiver took over management of the Gomez entities.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Fiorentino affiliate alleged Gomez submitted a \u201cfraudulent financial statement\u201d and failed to disclose he was already in default on a $15 million Aventura loan when he borrowed the $10 million secured by the riverfront property.<\/p>\n \u200bGomez did not respond to a request for comment. He previously denied wrongdoing, and blamed the lender for derailing the Miami River project.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Miami River site is entitled for a 40-unit luxury townhome project with 50-foot boat slips. No sale materialized before the foreclosure, leaving the lender to decide whether to relist the site, bring in a new partner or pursue the original Miami River Cove concept.<\/p>\n The foreclosure sale marks the second development site Gomez has lost since October, when an affiliate of Rok Lending seized control of his planned Aventura medical office project at a separate courthouse auction, following a $19.9 million<\/a> foreclosure judgment tied to a defaulted $15 million construction loan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two entities tied to Marlon Gomez lost a distressed Miami River development site at a courthouse auction, marking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[87367,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-185726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-marlon-gomez-miami-river","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}