Belgium is becoming too small for ’emperor of the coast’ Bart Versluys: how Ostend construction magnate is expanding his empire with a 650 million luxury tower

From Knokke Plage to Miami Beach. Now that he can even build a luxury tower there, nothing seems impossible for Bart Versluys (53) and his group of the same name. While the construction sector can barely keep up with bankruptcies, it is flourishing like never before. And that even Belgium has become too small for the ’emperor of the coast’ is evident from its dizzying profit figures – in which Marc Coucke also invariably shares.

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