When plans fell apart to build the controversial 13-story Vintro Hotel on a small waterfront parcel in Fort Lauderdale, Douglas Elliman broker Dan Teixeira assembled two neighboring parcels and sold all three sites to a South Carolina developer looking to open a Marriott resort.

“It’s one of those stories where you get a lemon and you make lemonade,” said Teixeira, a Douglas Elliman vice president of business development, whose office is in the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale.