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This has accelerated during the pandemic as remote workers sought a sunnier climate during lockdown.
Three locals explained why both people and businesses are flocking to the county.
Florida has been one of the few states to see real economic progress during the pandemic.
Both businesses and companies have flocked to the US third-largest state over the past year because of its pro-business environment, including a lack of personal-income tax, alongside its sunny climate that made it an alluring place to spend lockdown.
And Palm Beach County, located just north of Miami, has stood out. Elliott Management is planning on moving its headquarters there, Citadel Securities based its trading-floor s COVID-19 bubble at a hotel there, and hundreds of families have relocated to the county.
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South Florida s office market has seen new interest from over 1 million square feet worth of tenants.
The interest has made the area an outlier amid an otherwise moribund office market nationally.
Here are five of the developers poised to profit from the influx of interest.
It s Wall Street of the (far) south.
Meanwhile, much of the nation s office market has remained moribund for the past year, as the pandemic spurred tenants to work remotely and even reevaluate the office s role as the bedrock for culture, productivity, and collaboration in the workplace.
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The Related Cos., led by billionaire Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, is about to take control of the market for high-end commercial office space in West Palm Beach, giving the company the power to attract and ink leases with any office tenant seeking top space downtown.
Related is nearing completion on deals to acquire the Esperante Corporate Center, at 222 Lakeview Avenue, and CityPlace Tower, at 525 Okeechobee Boulevard, real estate sources said. Last month, a Related affiliate paid $282 million for the Phillips Point office complex at 777 S. Flagler Drive.
Yeah, and if only there had been videotape from that day of O.J. telling someone he did it . . .
Everyone's entitled to their fantasies, I suppose. Ben Ginsberg, a Republican election lawyer, fierce Trump critic, and CNN legal analyst, has his: a witness who would testify at the Senate impeachment trial that President Trump told him to storm the Capitol.
Ginsberg twice shared his fantasy on CNN's New Day this morning. Asked whether he would call witnesses if he were a Democrat impeachment prosecutor, Ginsberg said his dream witness: