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The Shangri-La fills in a blank in the master-planned Island Gardens project for which the City of Miami awarded Flagstone a 75-year ground lease. The plan calls for dual hotels as its centerpiece. While the Westin will be a conventional hotel, the Shangri-La will include 147 conventional rooms, 12 of which are one- and two-bedroom poolside villas, and 105 units that will be sold as fractionals, each marketed in seven fractions as second homes to periodic visitors.

The 135 hotel rooms will span floors one through 14, with the fractional ownership units on floors 15 through 42. The Shangri-La property will contain an Asian-inspired restaurant, screening room, a business center and green room available to VIPs and brides, according to a company statement. The hotel is scheduled to open in 2008.Calls to Mehmet Bayraktar, chairman and CEO of Flagstone, were not returned by deadline.