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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Douglas Hanks III
Feb. 25--Roy Stillman brought most of the money to build Fort Lauderdale's latest luxury hotel, and he's sure to get little attention for it. So it goes when your junior partner is named Donald Trump.
"It's a little frustrating. But I knew that going in," said Stillman, the New York high-rise developer behind the Trump International Hotel & Tower Fort Lauderdale, set to start construction in the coming months. "I'll just have to suck up my ego."
He has plenty of humble company: Trump has already licensed his name to a Sunny Isles Beach condo-hotel, and plans to announce a second project on Fort Lauderdale beach. Meanwhile, Trump has launched more than a dozen high-rise towers around the globe, often with developers who see his name as a lucrative investment.
But along with...
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