Ervin Vidor, who came to Australia as a postwar refugee and built a fortune worth nearly $1.5 billion with his wife Charlotte through their property development company Toga, died last week aged 92.

Vidor, who passed away in Sydney on Thursday, built Toga into a company that shaped his adopted home as it grew, most recently with the $500 million Surry Hills Village redevelopment of the city’s infamous former “Murder Mall” shopping centre site, opening The Eve Hotel in February.

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