Entrepreneurial family has invested $500M and is just getting started

The Hoffmanns have made big business waves in Southwest Florida by buying up a bit of everything, centered on hospitality. What drives their success?

  • By Jay Schlichter
  • | 6:00 a.m. September 13, 2019
David and Jerrilyn Hoffmann pose outside one of their buildings on Fifth Avenue South in downtown Naples in January 2022.
David and Jerrilyn Hoffmann pose outside one of their buildings on Fifth Avenue South in downtown Naples in January 2022.
Photo by Stefania Pifferi
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David and Jerrilyn Hoffmann felt the magical draw of Naples about three years ago and made it their new home, like countless others before them.

 

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