Aerin Lauder Interview About How Florida's Palm Beach is Booming
Nicholas Mele Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, Jeffrey Tousey, the thirtysomething founder of social media agency Beekman Social, and his partner, developer Billy Gilbane III, looked out the windows of their country home among the Finger Lakes in upstate New York and saw snow coming down. It was May. The couple knew they didn’t want to spend another winter—or even a spring—up north. Having both taken their work fully remote, they sought a warmer clime, but somewhere in the same time zone and with direct flights to New York. They decided to house-hunt in Palm Beach. “We’d scroll thr...