Developer Glaser, wife sell Palm Beach office building on Bradley Place to plastic surgeon

Darrell Hofheinz, Palm Beach Daily News
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A much-remodeled office building from the 1930s has a new owner on the near North End of Palm Beach.

Developer and real estate investor Todd Michael Glaser and his wife, Kim, have parted with the contemporary-style building at 175 Bradley Place for a recorded $3.9 million, the price recorded with the deed.

The Glasers sold the building in an off-market deal to a professional limited liability company controlled by plastic surgeon Dr. Norman Rowe and his wife, Mia.

On the northeast corner of Park Avenue, the building near the Publix supermarket will be the new home of Rowe’s plastic-surgery practice, as previously reported by the Palm Beach Daily News. Rowe opened his first Palm Beach office last fall in temporary quarters across town on Brazilian Avenue.

Kim and Todd Michael Glaser have sold, for a recorded $3.9 million, this office building at 175 Bradley Place in Palm Beach to a company controlled by plastic surgeon Dr. Norman Rowe and his wife, Mia.
Kim and Todd Michael Glaser have sold, for a recorded $3.9 million, this office building at 175 Bradley Place in Palm Beach to a company controlled by plastic surgeon Dr. Norman Rowe and his wife, Mia.

The new Bradley Place office should open by Oct. 1, a spokeswoman told the Palm Beach Daily News this week.

Property records show the building was built in 1932 and has 2,145 square feet. Based on that measurement, it traded at $1,818 per square foot.

The Glasers paid a recorded $2.35 million for the building on Bradley Place in February 2020, courthouse records show, just before the coronavirus pandemic hit Palm Beach and helped spark a local real estate boom unprecedented in modern memory.

Kim and Todd Michael Glaser
Kim and Todd Michael Glaser

The Glasers used the building as their family office, said Todd Glaser, whose Todd Michael Glaser real estate firm continues to be headquartered in Miami Beach. The Glasers own a landmarked home in Palm Beach’s Estate Section.

“It was a great little space for us,” Todd Glaser said about the commercial building he and his wife just sold.

Over the past several years, the developer — often working with investors — has bought, remodeled, sold and built Palm Beach homes for which his wife has provided the interior finishes. His most prominent Palm Beach project is a remodeled-and-expanded lakefront mansion at 10 Tarpon Isle, which is under contract with an asking price of $187.5 million.

The time was right to sell the Bradley Place building, Todd Glaser said. “We’ve slowed down and we’re going to take some time off and reassess everything in October,” he added.

Plastic surgeon Dr. Norman Rowe, who has an office on Brazilian Avenue in Palm Beach, has used an ownership company to buy a commercial building at 175 Bradley Place. The New York City-based physician operates six other offices in New York and New Jersey.
Plastic surgeon Dr. Norman Rowe, who has an office on Brazilian Avenue in Palm Beach, has used an ownership company to buy a commercial building at 175 Bradley Place. The New York City-based physician operates six other offices in New York and New Jersey.

Rowe and his wife bought the building through a Florida professional limited liability company named Docpalmbeach PLLC.

Rowe operates six Rowe Plastic Surgery locations in New York and New Jersey. Mia Rowe is head of communications for the practice. The couple has a Palm Beach house on the South End’s Parc Monceau, which one of their ownership companies bought in March 2021, property records show.

The building on Bradley Place was originally designed as a medical office by the late Miami architect Norman Giller, according to architectural historian Augustus Mayhew. But a major renovation in 2000 overseen by the Anstis, Vass & Ornstein architectural firm covered the exterior in strips of Mexican travertine and transformed its appearance, Mayhew said.

The deed for the Bradley Place sale was recorded May 1. Miami Beach broker Stefano Santoro of Disruptive Real Estate represented the Rowes’ interests. Agents Suzanne Frisbie and Franny Frisbie of the Corcoran Group represented the Glasers.

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Darrell Hofheinz is a USA TODAY Network of Florida journalist who writes about Palm Beach real estate in his weekly “Beyond the Hedges” column. He welcomes tips about real estate news on the island. Email dhofheinz@pbdailynews.com, call 561-820-3831 or tweet @

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Developer, wife sell Palm Beach office building to plastic surgeon

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