Foot Locker ditching NYC for St. Petersburg, Florida to cut high costs: ‘Efficiencies’

Foot Locker announced Wednesday the sneaker retailer will move its headquarters from New York City to Florida to escape the Empire State’s high costs. “To better support our strategic progress, to increase team member collaboration, as well as ongoing expense discipline, we made the decision to relocate our headquarters to St. Petersburg, Fla.,” CEO Mary … Read more

How West Palm Beach won COVID’s real estate wars

Twenty-eight years too early is how developer Stephen Ross describes his firm’s arrival in West Palm Beach, the Florida city he’s now helping transform with a trio of new office towers, ultra-luxury condos, and soon, a university.  West Palm Beach Mayor Keith A. James and leading real estate developer Stephen M. Ross at the April groundbreaking … Read more