Otto Divosta

Who is Otto Divosta?

Otto Divosta was a principal partner of a major home development company based in South Florida. In the 1970s, he developed a process for building multi-family homes in an assembly line fashion. DiVosta and Clifford F. Burg formed Burg & DiVosta Corp. to combine Burg's construction experience with DiVosta's development company. Since the 1960s, DiVosta has built 40,000 homes in Florida. DiVosta sold his company to Pulte Homes in 1998.

He developed a quick-setting cement used in 1981 to build a three-bedroom, two-bath home, with a two-car garage, in seven hours and 35 minutes. The house was auctioned off with proceeds to be donated to the City of Palm Beach Gardens for a municipal swimming pool. This was believed to be a world record-breaking construction, beating a previous record of 19 hours held by U.S. Homes Corp. The average house normally takes about three months to complete, according to an experienced home builder.

Otto DiVosta donated a swimming pool to be built just west of the Palm Beach Gardens community Center, located on the south side of Burns Road at Military Trail.

Three acres of the southwest corner of PGA and Military Trail was owned by DiVosta and his wife Betty. The DiVostas obtained approval in 1981 for a 40,000-square-foot, six-story office building which was planned to house Burg & DiVosta's corporate headquarters. It was delayed because of high interest rates, an overbuilt market, or objections from homeowners directly behind the property, depending on whom you ask.