January 8, 2024

Introducing The Official 2023 Haute 100 Miami List: Includes Don, Katrina and Donahue Peebles

COMPANY: Peebles Corporation
INDUSTRY: Real Estate

Donahue “Don” Peebles III is the founder, chairman, and CEO of the Peebles Corporation, a national real estate investment and development company with an $8 billion project portfolio and a pipeline spanning key markets in the nation. He is the executive vice president of the Peebles Corporation and handles new acquisitions and business development, actively pursuing public and private real estate transactions. His wife, Katrina, is responsible for the creative vision and direction of the Peebles Corporation’s design and marketing. In addition to her corporate role, she currently sits on the board of directors for CARE Elementary School in Miami and is the vice chair of the New York City Mission Society.

View the complete list in Haute Living.

December 14, 2023

“Power Lunch” on CNBC with Kelly Evans and Steve Liesman

Don Peebles: "We look for opportunities when the market is not functioning well." Don Peebles, The Peebles Corporation CEO and chairman, joins ‘Power Lunch’ to discuss his expectations for the commercial real estate market.

View the full interview here.

October 30, 2023

“The Big Money Show” with Brian Sullivan on CNBC

Real estate investor Don Peebles talks commercial real estate’s ongoing struggles.

Hosted by Brian Sullivan, “Last Call” is a fast-paced, entertaining business show that explores the intersection of money, culture and policy. Tune in Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. ET on CNBC.

View the full interview here.

March 12, 2021

Bath Club, nearly 100 years old, to reopen in Miami Beach after extensive renovations

By Matthew Arrojas

The club was founded in 1926 on land that was previously an avocado plantation.

The Bath Club in Miami Beach will reopen later this month after an extensive renovation project.

Don Peebles, owner of the nearly 100-year-old private club at 5937 Collins Ave. in Miami Beach, updated much of the private club's members-only amenities. Allison Antrobus and Ruby Ramirez of Miami-based design studio Antrobus + Ramirez redesigned the property for Coral Gables-based the Peebles Corp.

The Bath Club features a three-acre private beach, a full-service spa, a fitness studio, a resort-style pool, cabanas, clay tennis courts, lounge areas and new culinary options. The private club also has six different venues providing a combined 26,000 square feet of potential event space for members.

Apicii Hospitality, a New York-based hospitality management and consulting firm, curated the Bath Club's new food and beverage options. Dining venues include the club's Courtyard, Veranda and the historic Parlor and Governor's Loggia. The restaurant and bars will serve seasonal Mediterranean-style menus.

Chef Jeff Masanz will serve as executive chef for the club. His experience comes from working in the industry at the Boca Raton Club & Resort and Diplomat Beach Resort.

According to a statement regarding the opening, the Bath Club is the only private club in Miami Beach not attached to a resort or hotel.

The club was founded in 1926 on land that was previously an avocado plantation. Over the years, it became a destination for notable figures including former President Herbert Hoover, William Vanderbilt II of the prominent Vanderbilt family, French jeweler Pierre Cartier and Boeing Co. founder William Boeing.

However, for years the club denied membership to Black and Jewish people. Peebles, the club's first Black member, purchased the property in 1999 with the intention to make the club a more inclusive experience.

“The Bath Club offers a sense of place, legacy and authenticity for all walks of life,” Peebles said in a statement. “This is where diversity and reinvention – past and future – come together for enriching experiences surrounded by privacy and luxury.”

Adjacent to the Bath Club stands the Residences at the Bath Club at 5959 Collins Ave. The condo building includes 112 units and was built in 2005.

Credit: South Florida Business Journal

February 12, 2020

Don Peebles Hosts Kickoff Party for New York Real Estate Chamber (NYREC)

R. Donahue Peebles Jr., Katrina Peebles and R. Donahue Peebles III hosted a spectacular Kick Off party with The New York Real Estate Chamber at their private residence in New York City. The New York Real Estate Chamber (NYREC) is a chamber of commerce comprising well-established residential and commercial developers, community development corporations, general contractors and property managers that share a common goal—the expansion of minority business participation and community development.

Notable attendees included: R. Donahue Peebles Jr., Katrina Peebles, R. Donahue Peebles III, Andrew Cooke, Tywan Anthony, Thomas Campbell, Paul Moore, Joshua Anthony, Randall Toure, Craig Livingston, Devon Prioleau, Meredith Marshall, Andy Jee, Chris Bramwell, William Wilkins, Nicole Lockett, Osei Rubie, Cheryl Daniel, Brian Benjamin, Harry Haynes, Jerrod Delaine, Kenneth Morrison, Darrel Gay, Derrick Lovett, Gordon Bell, Manuel Burgos, Eboni Harris, Francilia W. Rahim, Dwayne Jeffrey, Dawanna Williams, Gardner Rivera, Joe Ballaris, Timothy Edwards, Randall Powell, Roland Powell Jr., Donald Matheson, Micheal Bunton, Victor Amoo, Josie Francis, Marina Ovanesyan, and Salud Reyes.

The party served as a kickoff to The Emerging Leaders and Markets (ELM) Conference. The ELM is the New York Real Estate Chamber’s signature event, bringing together leaders from Government, Business, Community Development and Finance to enlighten attendees with regard to current opportunities and innovations in a series of topical panels. The conference will convene at Columbia University’s Faculty House, March, 2020. The New York Real Estate Chamber (NYREC) expects ELM to attract 300 commercial and housing real estate professionals, along with political and community leaders from throughout the Tri-State Area. ELM will feature some of real estate’s most successful and innovative deal makers and leaders of minority-owned firms and just as important leading public policy makers, to drive the discourse, develop ideas, and relationships around sustainable development in urban communities. The ELM Conference is a uniquely powerful opportunity to connect with dynamic developers, government officials, financiers and other real estate professionals engaged in remaking the urban landscape.

 

Photo Credit: Monnelle Photography

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February 12, 2020

Don Peebles is On Site with Shaun Osher

Don Peebles spends an hour talking with Shaun Osher about his upbringing, his ability to turn big dreams into real possibilities, the evolution of the housing market and what success means to him in 2020.

January 8, 2020

A Look Inside the Newly Redesigned Exclusively Inclusive Bath Club

Artist's rendering of the Members' Cafe at The Bath Club THE BATH CLUB

When it opened in 1928, the Bath Club— then the first and only private oceanfront club on Miami Beach—was built by and for people with pedigreed names like Firestone, Fisher, Vanderbilt, Boeing and Cartier. Designed by famed architect Robert A. Taylor in the popular Mediterranean Revival style of the day, it was created as an exclusive winter getaway, where wealthy Northeasterners could gather to socialize, swim and warm their bones— and neither locals, African Americans nor Jews were allowed access. More than 90 years later, a reincarnated version of the club will reopen this month—again to an elite set of members. But this time around, it will embrace a diverse crowd of every color and creed from every walk of life. The idea, says Don Peebles, the new club’s visionary and developer, is to flip the original founders’ premise on its head and transform it into a setting that he calls “exclusively inclusive.”

In its Roaring Twenties heyday, the Bath Club was an emblem of the Jazz Age, with cocktails flowing and fine food served while an eight-piece orchestra filled the air with music against a bougainvillea-draped tropical backdrop. Several decades later, Peebles, a high-profile South Florida developer, was invited to become the club’s first African American member and socialized there until he bought the property in 1999 after responding to a request for a proposal to redevelop the property. “The opportunity to own and develop prime oceanfront land in one of the most coveted areas of Miami Beach was certainly a draw, but as a member of the club, I had a personal connection to the project,” says Peebles. “I felt as though it was my duty to preserve the club’s history, while guiding it into its future. For me, it was a chance to make a statement as to how far Miami and the U.S. had come.”

And 20 years later, he’s done just that. With a complete interior revamp by female design duo Antrobus+Ramirez, the revitalized heritage property pays homage to its glory days with the best of its original architecture—stuccoed walls, cast-iron chandeliers, terra-cotta roof tiles and floors, and Prohibition-era secret doors—restored and left intact. Yet, now filled with a spirited mix of retro- inspired furnishings and accents, including fringed umbrellas, floral-patterned fabrics and canopies, tented cabana ceilings, plush banquettes, cozy leather chairs, rattan beach loungers and bar carts, it also offers a fresh take on old-school Miami glamour that coolly repositions it for the future. One of the designers’ favorite spaces in the 26,000-plus- square-foot facility is the private dining room. “Originally designed to be the jewelry box of the club, the insular room is the perfect place to create an element of surprise,” says designer Ruby Ramirez.

As in the past, food, drink and unparalleled service are central to the club’s offerings, though today a new menu of light, healthy fare developed by the acclaimed hospitality group Apicii will redefine the club’s array of dining experiences in the canopied outdoor courtyard and adjacent enclosed lounge as well as the indoor and outdoor dining areas near the pool, with butler service available at the multiple poolside cabanas. Many of the sporting and fitness activities, including swimming and tennis on the club’s refurbished clay courts, also derive from a page in the club’s original playbook, yet they’re now coupled with a roster of curated fitness programs delivered by the city’s top instructors, while customized private massages and skin treatments offer up-to-the-minute wellness options at the updated spa. And a wide range of events and programming—from film screenings, local artists’ exhibitions and music performances to cooking and mindfulness classes—will regularly take place in the club’s special events and ballroom spaces.

“What we need in today’s era is a place where bibliophiles, investment bankers, families, artists, DJs— people from all walks of life—can come together and enjoy the exclusivity and elegance that they crave in a space that is iconic in its own way and insulated from the everyday intensity of Miami,” says Peebles.

But make no mistake: While the club will cater to a new breed of elite members, it will remain ultraexclusive. Membership is offered by invitation only and limited to just 200 members and their families. The city’s only private beach club without an attached hotel component, the Bath Club’s superintimate environs along with more than 550 linear feet of oceanfront beach are but a few of the essential ingredients that set it apart from other private clubs on the Beach.

“The Bath Club is more mature, sophisticated and established,” says Peebles. “It was the first social club in the Southeast, so there is a certain level of history and prestige that other membership clubs simply cannot replicate.”

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