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Top Ten Hotel Openings of 2009

Hotels shutting their glass and filigree doors or going into some form of financial distress could have made more of this year's new than new openings; still, the quantity and quality of newly available suites to call your own felt just as stellar as in better years past. Sure, we didn't get the J line of hotels (yet), but we did get the Bardessono -- and 82 geothermal wells and hand-loomed Coyuchi linens are probably as good as anything Jay Z had to offer. Whittled to just ten, with the help of our friends over at TabletHotels.com, in no particular order here are Luxist's top openings of 2009...

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1 Isle of Bahia, Estate of the Day

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Estates

This impressive home in Harbor Beach in Fort Lauderdale sits on 320 feet of waterfront along the Intracoastal Waterway. The home has more than 16,000 total square feet of space with an old world style and all sorts of lavish details including a hand-painted domed ceiling in the rotunda foyer. The living room gleams with a gilded dome and there is a mahogany library. The home is a newer build (1999) but has an older style with marble colonnades, carved wood details, mosaics and wrought iron. There is a waterside loggia for entertaining and an in-ground pool. A separate carriage house contains the guest suite. The home is listed at $19.9 million. After the jump, the gilded lily.

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