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FLORIDATREND.COM MAY 2014 3 PORTRAIT FIN 3/28 Palm Beach County By Jeff Zbar

4 MAY 2014 FLORIDATREND.COM > Belle Glade > Boca Raton > Delray Beach Palm Beach County > Jupiter By Jeff Zbar > Palm Beach > West Palm Beach

photo: Bill Ingram / The Palm Beach Post / Newscom FLORIDATREND.COM MAY 2014 5 Regional Strengths Palm Beach County encompasses 2,000 square miles – 2,500 if you include its part of Lake Okeechobee. Locals describe it in terms of four distinct regions: South, central, north and western. Each has its own set of attributes.

6 MAY 2014 FLORIDATREND.COM top photo: www.Astro-Aerial-Photography.com the county’s only stop the stereotype of an The area’s tech Raton — former city for All Aboard Florida, aging demographic is heritage dates to IBM’s council member and the Miami-to-Orlando dated. Boca Raton’s construction of the pro-business candidate rail slated to begin median age is 41.1 personal computer here Susan Haynie — service in 2015. The years, and its business in the 1960s and ’70s. was supported by area also includes Palm sectors speak more to Today, tech innovators developers with plans Beach International technological evolution include Scott Adams for condos in the east Airport and the Port of than retirement. Health (Hiway Technologies), to luxury homes and Palm Beach. care, technology Dan Cane (Blackboard, rental apartments to Founded in 1913, the and kindergarten Modernizing Medicine) the west. To the north, Chamber of Commerce through post graduate and John Duffy Delray Beach’s historic West Palm of the Palm Beaches has education are the (3Cinteractive). Other Atlantic Avenue has Beach has some 1,600 members, area’s three largest large employers include thrived with tourists one of the including employers sectors. Area hospitals Office Depot, Bluegreen and south Florida county’s best like agricultural giant and employers work Corp., NCCI, Campus locals drawn to its downtowns, Florida Crystals, with local colleges and Management and SBA restaurants, shops and with regional law firms, banks universities to educate Communications, one nearby beachfront in Clematis and financial service some 40,000 students of two cellular antenna the “Village by the Street and providers and a host to match workplace companies based here, Sea.” Throughout the of companies drawn needs in what one area along with Global region, the western the nearby to a growing market. executive has called Tower Partners. suburbs continue CityPlace. The central county also “college town.” A new mayor in Boca to grow. includes “The Island” — the Town of Palm Beach, which embodies the county’s genteel and architectural history. Iconic properties include The Breakers (built in 1896 by Henry Flagler), the Flagler Museum / Whitehall (1902), Mar- a-Lago Club (built by Marjorie Merriweather Post and husband Edward F. Hutton in Central County 1924-27 and acquired by Donald Trump in Boynton Beach, 1985), and the former Lake Worth, West Palm Kennedy estate built by Beach, Manalapan Addison Mizner, whose Home to the county Mediterranean designs seat of West Palm influence architecture Beach, central county throughout central and is the nexus of regional south county. business. County and city government South County headquarters, the School Board of Palm From the Broward Beach County, the County line north federal court, as well as through Boca Raton, the South Florida Water Delray Beach Management District The area is long — which controls the portrayed as the critical flow of water home of Morty and from the Everglades and Helen, Jerry’s retired Lake Okeechobee to parents in the sitcom the entire region — are “Seinfeld,” but here. Downtown will be county leaders say Mizner Park is a mixed-use retail complex in Boca Raton.

bottom photo: Greg Johnston/Newscom FLORIDATREND.COM MAY 2014 7 home of the Riviera Glade, South Bay and Beach Marina District, Pahokee has long been a multimillion-dollar one of the county’s redevelopment that poorest regions, with earned overwhelming high rates of crime voter approval in a and incarceration and March referendum. unemployment levels typically at least twice as Western County high as county averages. Some see a better Wellington, South future in non-agricultural Bay, Belle Glade, development. In Pahokee September 2013, Minto While Wellington Communities Florida is known as a center acquired the 3,800- for equestrian sports, acre Callery-Judge football dominates Grove, with plans for the rest of the region’s 6,500 homes, retail, sports scene, which has offices, aerospace/ produced a host of NFL technology research players including Reidel and development, Scripps Research Anthony, Santonio and a baseball spring Holmes, Fred Taylor and training facility with Institute Florida North County Developers and Deonte Thompson a 150-room hotel. investors, including De arrived in 2004. Economically, the Meanwhile, Florida Riviera Beach, Palm Guardiola Development western reaches of Palm Crystals has proposed Beach Gardens, Singer Ventures and Rendina Beach County are the the Intermodal Logistics Island, Jupiter, Tequesta Cos., have helped state’s breadbasket. Center, a distribution north to the Martin stamp the market with Some 400,000 acres hub on 860 acres of County line projects like Abacoa. also is home to John — one-third of the former sugar cane field. The 230 square The planned urban D. MacArthur Beach county’s land mass — If built, backers say it miles of the northern development includes State Park and the is planted with sugar could create 20,000 county exemplify the Roger Dean Stadium Loxahatchee River. From cane. Agribusiness also jobs and be a key nexus growth the county has — spring training there, the Intracoastal includes $2 billion in for area shipping. The seen since Scripps home of the Miami Waterway and Atlantic fresh sweet corn, rice, company is also active Research Institute Marlins and the St. Ocean serve as bell peppers, lettuce, in alternative energy Florida arrived in 2004 Louis Cardinals — golf waterfront for affluent radishes, Chinese — its biomass facility and was subsequently courses, retail, office communities Singer vegetables, cucumbers uses leftover sugar cane joined by Max Planck space and room for Island, Jupiter, Tequesta and nurseries. fiber and recycled wood Florida Institute. The almost 7,000 homes. A and Jupiter Inlet Colony The agricultural area waste as fuel to produce biotech sector has public-private branding — and the future that encompasses Belle clean energy. been a continued initiative from the catalyst for growth — as Northern Palm Beach evidenced by recent County Chamber of land buys. Kolter Group Commerce will seek to in December spent lure businesses to the The county $127.5 million on the area, where newcomers is a major 603-acre “Briger Tract” will find supporting supplier on the south side of infrastructure, luxury of sugar. Donald Ross Road near retailers along the PGA Scripps and Florida Boulevard corridor Atlantic University. and schools like the Zoning could result in acclaimed Suncoast 2,700 homes, 450,000 High School, the square feet for retail and Honors College at 2.4 million square feet FAU, Palm Beach State of biotech space and College and Nova office space — ideal for Southeastern University. biotech spinoffs. North county

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10 MAY 2014 FLORIDATREND.COM photo: Gary Coronado/The Palm Beach Post/Newscom and utilities, at a combined 4.6% over the past and utilities,atacombined4.6%overthepast strongest growth wasintrade,transportation top five regions inthestateforjobgrowth. The jobs overthepastyear, makingitamongthe EconomicTrends The county gained 12,000 non-agricultural The countygained12,000non-agricultural Florida’s Cutp organizts from 20wld-cas cultra ofeingshy With morean42,0 gaining 13,200jobsovertheyear. of all22metro areas inFloridajobgrowth, months, thecountywasamongtopfive and financialservices.Forsixconsecutive leisure services, government, andhospitality services, aswellprofessional andbusiness year. Alsorisingwere educationandhealth ® entertainment festivals. largest arts,craftsand south Florida’s oldestand Delray Affair isoneof Bush for ballot difficulties. Bush forballotdifficulties. presidential electionofGeorge W. by someforitspartinthe2000 live inthecounty. It’s stillknown registered Republicansover65 county, while7%ofthestate’s Democrats overage65liveinthe Some 10%ofthestate’s registered liberal andconservativeaffiliations. political bag,withpocketsofboth of newresidents makeitamixed But thecounty’s heritageandinflux 2008 (61.5%)and2012(58.6%). and votedforPresident Obamain as aDemocraticPartystronghold Politics The countyisgenerallyregarded Economic Backbone

More than one-third of the county’s land is dedicated to agriculture.

Agribusiness aircraft. Companies include B/E IBM’s presence helped establish Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, the infrastructure, knowledge base, While sugarcane may be the Sikorsky Aircraft’s manufacturing workforce and regional collaboration best known crop in a county where and assembly operations and jet that has turned the county — and almost 460,000 acres — more than engine maker Pratt & Whitney, as south Florida — into what some a third of the county’s land mass — well as a host of supporting trades, have called “Silicon Beach.” are dedicated to agriculture, others like maintenance, training and Leaders include mobile technology includes fruits and vegetables, Cross Match flight schools. providers 3Cinteractive, C3/Cloud nurseries, livestock, forestry and Technologies Computing Concepts, Cross Match hunting and fishing. Industry wages makes IT / Telecommunications Technologies, Campus Management topped $316 million in 2011, biometric and a host of software application and sales of $1.42 billion led the products like Since the arrival of IBM in Boca developers, network management, state and all counties east of the like this SEEK Raton more than 40 years ago, storage providers, and wireless Mississippi River, making the county Avenger. Palm Beach County has remained a communication research and one of the country’s 10 largest hub of the information technology development companies serving the agribusiness counties. The county and telecommunications industry. U.S. and the Americas. also has major sugar mills and refineries, vegetable packinghouses, horticultural nurseries, hydroponic growers, as well as the growing equestrian industry. Aviation / Aerospace / A CH-53K heavy lift helicopter Engineering prototype is tested at Sikorsky’s West Located largely in the western Palm Beach facility. county, this cluster includes more than 600 businesses employing some 20,000 people who design, manufacture and assemble commercial, private and military

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The city’s historic buildings, mid-rise More than 600,000 trolley riders in 2013 Paying Off office buildings and commuter access Pedestrians per month: 70,000 from downtown to the Tri-Rail train Average Daily Traffic Vehicle Counts: 69,500 station have been particularly attractive to Downtown West Palm Beach breaks out with plans for the creative industry — architects, interior Palm Beach County schools are among the $1.5 billion in construction over the next five years. designers, graphic designers and consult- highest-rated in the state. ing firms. For the first time since the 1920s, U.S. “For companies that are looking to A prime example is Arrow Consult- cities are growing faster than suburbs. attract the best creative talent, this is the ing & Design, a West Palm Beach-based West Palm Beach, the oldest city in South place,” says Raphael Clemente, executive “Downtown digital agency founded in 2005 with an quarters. One of the core things we president and CEO of the Palm Florida, is experiencing a tremendous director of the Downtown Development West Palm Beach international clientele, primarily focused needed was a place that was going to Beach County Business Develop- resurgence, and at the heart of it all is the Authority. “Downtown West Palm Beach has the best of on software development. Since its attract entrepreneurial talent. Being ment Board. city’s downtown and waterfront. has the best of both worlds: a central founding, the company has expanded downtown on Clematis Street with What’s next? The completion of “We are really in an amazing upturn business district with access to what you both worlds .... It’s a its services to offer marketing, web the train stop down the street has several large-scale projects, includ- here. 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Corporate Headquarters Distribution Hub headquarters, and Jack Scalisi Wholesale Fruit & Produce has More than 40 companies Palm Beach County is a 19,000 square feet, both in Royal have their headquarters in Palm distribution hub for more than Palm Beach, as does American Tire Beach County, including six of a dozen food service, retail and Distributors, which chose the city the 50-largest private and six delivery companies. A short list for its 125,000-sq.-ft. warehouse. of the largest public companies includes Cheney Bros. (250,000 US Foods has 300,000 square in Florida, notes the Business Office Depot square feet) and Sysco Southeast feet, and pharmaceutical logistics Development Board of Palm will keep its Florida, both in Riviera Beach, firm Woodfield Distribution has Beach County. Companies headquarters in as is a 50,000-sq.-ft. distribution 77,000 square feet, both in Boca include FPL/NextEra Energy, Boca Raton. center for FedEx. Publix has a Raton. Walgreens operates a NCCI, SBA Communications, 487,000-sq.-ft. distribution center 672,000-sq.-ft. distribution center in B/E Aerospace and MDVIP, a in Boynton Beach, discount grocer Jupiter. Beverage company Brown personalized medicine provider Aldi is building a 650,000-sq.-ft. Distributing has 92,000 square feet and subsidiary of Procter & distribution center and regional in West Palm Beach. The largest by Gamble. Office Depot will remain far could be a planned in Boca Raton after its merger Intermodal Logistics with OfficeMax. One of the Center, or “inland largest corporate relocations was port,” cargo distribution Jarden, owner of such brands hub planned for 860 as Sunbeam, Oster, Crock-Pot, acres in western Palm Mr. Coffee and others, which Beach County. moved to Boca Raton from Rye, N.Y. Most firms that move here do so for similar reasons: Low taxes, an educated workforce and easy transportation options. The county ranked No. 16 on a cost- Walgreens comparison list of best places to operates a open a headquarters, according 672,000-sq.-ft. to Boyd Co. distribution center in Jupiter.

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any of America’s Fortune 500 companies already call us home, and many more CEOs Mrecognize the unmatched opportunities presented by the City of Riviera Beach. We are poised on the brink of an exciting future with a $375 million redevelopment of our Marina District now underway; a multi-million dollar infrastructure improvement project; and a ﬁ rst-class Clean & Safe Program making our neighborhoods and commercial districts better than ever. Our aﬀ ordable real estate, spectacular beaches, skilled, multi-lingual workforce, prime location next to the Inlet, the Port of Palm Beach, and our crown jewel, the Marina, put Riviera Beach at the top of the list of what’s next in Florida. Au Sysco Viking Yacht Company UPS Baron Sign Manufacturing Medical Manufacturing PNC Bank BB&T Water Park Cemex Sysco RGF Enviromental Group Rybovich FPL Callaghan Tire Fit For Life West Gate Sheet Metal RGF Environmental Group Celebration Cruise Line SertaRiviera Mattress UPSBeach BB&T Viking Yacht Company Oxford Biomedical TechnologiesFind out more at rbcra.comHartman | rivierabch.com Windows & Doors Pepsi Red

Bull AutoZoneLight Industrial - Manufacturing TRS International- Distribution Centers - Corporate Group Headquarters Arnold - Marine~Related Foods Company TD Bank John C. Cassidy Air Conditioning The Stone Quarry Marble Millwork & Supply Co.Schomburg Latin America NSI Windows & Doors service” area, she says. In addition to traditional practice areas, Cleveland Clinic Florida’s Palm Beach Gardens location — one of two in the county — offers a dive medicine specialty for dive injuries ranging from ear and mask squeeze to sinus and lung barotraumas and decompression illness. Biotech/Life Sciences Scripps Research Institute Florida and Max Planck Florida Institute have become synonymous with the biomedical research and life science community in Palm Beach County. Companies include CHS Pharma, BIOMET 3i, Biotest Pharmaceuticals, Florida Atlantic Dyadic International, Opko Health and University’s Charles Somahlution, which relocated here from E. Schmidt College Fargo, N.D., 2012. of Medicine opened in 2011. Health Care

Some 1,500 health care-related employees and doctors — some of whom businesses, including hospitals, biotech work with students at the FAU’s Charles firms and ancillary firms, employ more E. Schmidt College of Medicine nearby. than 50,000 countywide. The Health The hospital has several new projects Care District’s trauma system includes under way. two designated trauma centers. Area In the western part of the county, educators, like Florida Atlantic University Wellington Regional Medical Center has and Palm Beach State College, and added 80 private rooms — with bedside local hospitals, like Boca Raton Regional computers, “smart beds” and update Hospital and JFK Medical Center, help train systems — and has invested $46 million the health care workforce. in a new pavilion and lobby, says CEO Growth is a common theme for the 14 Robbin Lee. The hospital has the only hospitals across Palm Beach County. Boca Level 3 neonatal intensive care units in Raton Regional Hospital is a 400-bed not- the western community and a large OB for-profit medical center with almost 3,000 practice with 37 beds in the “women’s

Research at the Max Planck Florida Institute focuses on brain function and neural circuits.

Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus, who moved to Palm Beach County from Atlanta, donated $25 million to the Boca Raton Regional Hospital.

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Film & Culture

Burt Reynolds — a former FSU running back and reportedly the first actor paid $1 million or more for a movie — is a Palm Beach County native. His family moved to Riviera Beach in the 1940s — where his father Burt Reynolds became police chief. Reynolds is credited with helping build Jupiter’s cultural infrastructure — and role as a filming destination. His “B.L. Stryker” TV drama was filmed locally, and its reported $48 million in local spending was the most ever in the county for any film or series. Reynolds opened the Institute for Film & Theatre in Lake Park.

Palm Beach County and Discover Palm Beach County (formerly the The Breakers Convention & Visitors Bureau). opened in 1896 The Palm Beach County Film as the Palm & Television Commission fields Beach Inn. dozens of events, filmings and casting calls annually. Last year, Nat Geo Wild filmed an episode Tourism migrate to north county and Roger of its “Jobs That Bite!” series at Dean Stadium for Miami Marlins and the venerable Lion Country Safari, Tourism in Palm Beach County St. Louis Cardinals spring training. a regional icon founded in 1967 The Miami drives some $5 billion in annual Golfers will find plenty of courses that claims to be America’s first spending, from vacationers, — and two PGA events held locally Marlins and “cageless zoo.” businesses, conventions and annual each year. St. Louis The county has seen growth events alike. It supports 45,000 area The county has 47 miles of Cardinals among international travelers, jobs, generates some $30 million Atlantic beaches. Yachters power play their especially those flying into Miami. in bed-tax revenue and accounts into marinas for stopovers to and spring With the opening of the Palm Beach for lodging sales of $623 million. from the Northeast, the Caribbean training Outlets in West Palm Beach, tourism Travel in 2013 was up 4.5% over the and the Mediterranean, and the games in officials hope to make the county a previous year. area’s waters attract divers and Jupiter. stop for domestic and international Sports tourism plays a big role. anglers as well. travelers in search of outlet-mall Last year, the USA Field Hockey Convention and meeting planners shopping trips. brought its national festival — the will find 16,000 rooms in more than largest amateur sporting events in 200 hotels and more than 1 million the world — to the International square feet of meeting space from Polo Club Palm Beach. Some 260 The Breakers in Palm Beach to the teams, 4,400 athletes and 8,500 Boca Raton Resort & Club in south visitors came for the five-day event, county to more than a dozen other generating 12,000 hotel-room- niche properties with more than nights at 50 area hotels, 4,400 car 5,000 square feet of space. rental days, 4,000 airline flights “Tourism is one of the main and $9 million in direct visitor clusters of economic impact here in spending, according to the Palm the county,” says Glenn Jergensen, Beach County Sports Commission. executive director of the Palm More than 10,000 seasonal visitors Beach County Tourist Development descend upon the polo ground in Council. The council oversees other Wellington each year for the Winter area tourism-related businesses, Equestrian Festival. Baseball fans including the Cultural Council of

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For more information... www.FloridaCrystals.com Rybovich operates a private equity to investment yacht service Banking / Financial / Marine Industries managers. Monty Agarwal in the county. Professional Services brought hedge fund MA Capital The marine industry — Management to Palm Beach including about 40,000 boats While business is strong from Gardens a decade ago. Among registered here — accounts for Boca Raton north to Jupiter and more recent arrivals are Kayne some $1.35 billion in annual Palm Beach Gardens, downtown Anderson Real Estate Advisors, impact from retail and wholesale West Palm Beach has grown into a $1.6-billion real estate arm of trade, construction and the county’s banking, financial the Los Angeles-based private maintenance and other services services and legal hub. Leading law equity and hedge fund. Al Rabil, and support almost 20,000 firms Gunster; Ackerman Link & managing partner and CEO with jobs from the Atlantic to Lake Sartory; and Broad and Cassel are the firm, decided to relocate from Okeechobee and waterways here. PNC bank based its regional Long Island to Boca Raton last in between, according to the headquarters on Datura Street here year. “If you’re looking for talented Marine Industries Association of several years ago. people, it’s a lot easier to recruit to Palm Beach County. The Palm A recent addition to the Boca Raton than to Armonk,” he Beach International Boat Show industries targeted by county says. “My people quickly went from in West Palm Beach showcases leaders is money managers, ‘Why?’ to ‘Why didn’t we do this some $350 million in vessels ranging from hedge funds to five years ago?’ ” annually and attracts some 50,000 a year. One major player is the Rybovich yacht service “If you’re looking for talented people, it’s a lot easier to recruit to center, where maintenance Boca Raton than to Armonk,” he says. “My people quickly went and refurbishing jobs on from ‘Why?’ to ‘Why didn’t we do this five years ago?’ ” megayachts easily can run in the hundreds of thousands — Al Rabil, managing partner / CEO, of dollars. Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors

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One niche cluster in Palm Beach County is the security-related industry. Home and commercial alarm company Tyco Integrated Security is in Boca Raton, as is cash logistics provider GardaWorld Cash Services and GardaWorld correctional, detention and community reentry Cash Services service provider GEO Group. Jarden, maker of has its cash the First Alert home safety brand, relocated to logistics Boca Raton recently. At the county’s northern headquarters in border in Jupiter is manned security and Boca Raton. technology provider G4S Americas.

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Resurgent urbanism has fueled The Tri-Rail rail line operated by the South Florida Regional regrowth in downtowns across the Transportation Authority travels 71 miles, hitting 18 stations from county. In Boca Raton, Mizner Park is West Palm Beach to near Miami International Airport. Along the central to the city’s revived downtown way, it connects with Amtrak stations, Miami-Dade’s Metrorail, corridor. Atlantic Avenue in Delray and a variety of public transportation options to carry passengers Beach bustles day and night in a place into downtown areas. In 2014, it celebrated 25 years in service. Rand McNally in 2012 called “the most fun small town in the United States.” Farther north, in Lake Worth, Lake and Lucerne avenues off Dixie Highway are home to restaurants, The Tri-Rail pubs and shops. travels 71 miles West Palm Beach has one of the from West county’s best downtowns, with Clematis Palm Beach Street and the nearby CityPlace offering to near Miami both dining and retail. Clematis, the International city’s original thoroughfare, blossomed 20 years ago after decades of neglect. Airport. With its debut in 2000, CityPlace has become a hub of activity and part of a mixed-use downtown that draws patrons from across south Florida.

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Port and Rail

Some 341,000 passengers sail from the Port of Palm Beach each year. But the port is better known as a vital regional shipping hub. As part of the Miami Customs District, the Port of Palm Beach’s commercial freight business makes it the state’s Airports linked by I-95, Florida’s Turnpike, fourth-busiest of 15 deep-water the railways and several east-west ports and the 18th-busiest container Four county-run airports, from thoroughfares. The big hope, port in the country. It has an on-dock Palm Beach International Airport though, is for the Intermodal rail, and five miles of track owned by to three general aviation facilities, Logistics Center, or ILC. This cargo the port provide access to Florida plus the state-run Boca Raton distribution hub is planned for 860 East Coast Railway, CSX and Norfolk Airport, meet a variety of needs. acres of former sugar cane field Southern rail lines. Some 6 million passengers annually between Belle Glade and South Bay Along those tracks roll 2 million fly through PBI. With 12 airlines, it near Lake Okeechobee in western tons of cargo a year, including features 97 daily non-stop flights to Palm Beach County. Proposed by containerized, refrigerated, bulk, cities throughout the US, Canada local agricultural conglomerate and roll-on/roll-off and heavy lift and the Caribbean. The latest Florida Crystals, the inland port loads. Some 80% of the loads are option: American Airlines non-stop once built could create 20,000 jobs for export. In fact, 60% of the cargo to Los Angeles. The facility was in an area beset by the county’s delivered to the Bahamas comes named third-best airport in the highest unemployment. from the Port of Palm Beach. U.S. and sixth-best in the world by Conde Nast Traveler magazine. Three general aviation airports include the North Palm Beach County General Aviation Airport in north county. Passengers on both private planes and jet aircraft use the facility when traveling to Florida Research Park, Jupiter and Palm Beach Gardens. South of PBI in Lantana is Palm Beach County Park Airport, which serves Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Delray Beach and Boca Raton and welcomes propeller aircraft and helicopters. The Palm Beach County Glades Palm Beach Airport to the west is used for International Airport recreational and sport flying and serves 6 million parachute operations. passengers a year. The airports and seaports are

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FAU Research Park a billion-dollar division of the of Research, an organization Employment at the park global broadband, satellite created to help monetize is just under 1,000, with an The Research Park at and cable service provider; innovations, and the Tech average salary of $68,000, Florida Atlantic University on and MobileHelp, a mobile Runway, an MIT-inspired significantly above the the outskirts of Boca Raton tracking service. Sandow Media entrepreneur mentorship county average, says Andrew is home to 22 startup and publishes a string of magazines, program. Synergies with FAU Duffell, the park’s president established firms. The park’s including NewBeauty, Luxe include professor involvement and CEO. With FAU’s incubator houses another Interiors and Worth. The and student internships — presence in north county — 35. Companies there include company last year moved from whether business students home to Scripps Research Modernizing Medicine, a health 7,000 to 30,000 square feet in working with People’s Institute Florida and Max records company founded the park. Trust Insurance or those in Planck Florida Institute — the by Daniel Cane, creator of The park also is the Boca engineering and computer park helps create a critical $1.6-billion education platform Raton home of the Institute science disciplines exploring mass to nurture innovation Blackboard; Pace Americas, for the Commercialization new technology. throughout the region.

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Local destinations include the 79-acre Peanut Island at the mouth of the Lake Worth Inlet, the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, John D. MacArthur State Park, Grassy Waters Preserve, J.W. Corbett Wildlife Management Area, Coral Cove Park, McCarthy’s Wildlife Sanctuary and Lake Trail on Palm Beach Island.

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Equestrians

What started as a small event with Prince Charles and other polo players in the 1980s today has transformed Wellington in western Palm Beach County into arguably the equestrian capital of the world. Case in point: The Winter Equestrian Festival. The annual, 16-week event attracts some 10,000 riders, supporters and fans and 6,500 horses that relocate to the area — and generates some $200 million a year in economic impact, says Mark Bellissimo, managing partner with Wellington Equestrian Partners. Insiders say Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg, Bruce Springsteen, a host of CEOs and hedge fund managers — even Russian oligarchs — are known to attend events here or own homes here. “It’s the largest aggregation of wealth anywhere in the world for a sporting event,” Bellissimo says.

The 16-week Winter Equestrian Festival attracts 10,000 riders and generates about $200 million in economic impact a year.

Sports

Besides the four minor > Golf: Golf Digest calls league teams and two MLB Palm Beach County teams that train at Jupiter’s “Golf Mecca.” Along Roger Dean Stadium, the with more than 170 county has: public and private golf courses countywide, both > Football: The Florida the Honda Classic and Atlantic University Allianz Championship Owls Division 1 college PGA tournaments are football team in 2012 played here. debuted a 30,000-seat football stadium. This > Fishing: Water sports December, the facility enthusiasts can dive, will join the ranks of sail, paddleboard or surf holiday season bowl along the Atlantic and hosts with the Boca fish both in the ocean The Honda Classic is played at PGA National Raton Bowl. and in Lake Okeechobee. Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens.

34 MAY 2014 FLORIDATREND.COM photos: Wenn Photos / Newscom; Infusmi / Newscom bottom FPL maintains a free website, Economic Development Agencies PoweringFlorida.com, which Over the past five Among recent successes: offers market data and statistical years, the Business information to employers > The retention of tech firm Development Board considering relocation. The TouchSuite, an Inc. 500 of Palm Beach County fast-growing company utility also provides rebates for says it helped drive with 47 jobs that and plans new companies or new facilities. some $493 million in to add another 50 capital investment, create more than 9,000 > Cancer Treatment Centers direct jobs with salaries of America and its 225 averaging $57,000 full-time staff, who are Workforce Training and drive economic relocating from Chicago impact topping $3.47 CareerSource Palm Beach County works with economic > Office Depot’s decision billion. The county’s development agencies, planners, governments and employers to in late 2013 to stay in the economic development help match trends and needs to workforce abilities. In 2013, the county after its merger community, which organization — formerly Workforce Alliance — helped some 30,000 with OfficeMax includes the Economic residents, including the disabled and veterans, to find employment. Council of Palm > Contact center and The tally in annual wages: $489 million. Both represent records for Beach County, various technology company the third consecutive program year. Also a record: The $6 million in city groups and a Etech Global Services’ training grants CareerSource awarded to colleges and vocational freestanding division decision to move from programs in its last program year. It was up three-fold from the of Florida Power & Texas to Riviera Beach. In previous program year. Light has focused on exchange for an incentives Across the county, 26 adult education centers and community attracting headquarters package, the company will schools provide vocational and occupational training to more than and specialty areas like invest $2.5 million and hire 300,000 each year. Career and vocational training is available within financial services. 200 employees. five miles of every county resident.

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from money managers — and a host of media. CNBC and the New York Post interviewed her. “It caught the eyes of everybody in New York, New Jersey and Boston,” she says now. With no big-budget marketing campaign, Smallridge filled her calendar ca Raton, Raton, ca with meetings and has lured a host of Targeted Marketing hedge funds and money managers. To FL 33431 FL Smallridge, it’s not what’s changing in In February 2013, Kelly Smallridge, CEO weather — especially compared to the Florida but what’s changed elsewhere of the Business Development Board of Northeast in winter — and the low cost that’s making execs take a second look — Palm Beach County, penned a letter to 30 of living and taxes that could save them especially at a place where many already hedge fund managers in the Northeast thousands on income taxes each year. own second homes. telling them about life in the county. She Apparently, she touched a nerve. “With higher taxes elsewhere,” she says,

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Travel and Dining include The River House in people-watching options. Palm Beach Gardens or La Max’s Grill and Truluck’s in The county’s movers and Sirena and City Cellar in West Boca Raton’s upscale shopping shakers network and negotiate Palm Beach. Along Delray promenade Mizner Park are at restaurants including Taboo, Beach’s Atlantic Avenue — south county favorites, as are Café Boulud and Flagler itself a thriving and historic J. Alexander’s or Abe & Louie’s Steakhouse in Palm Beach, dining and retail stretch on Glades Road. Rocco’s Tacos Rusticio Italiano in Lake between I-95 and the Atlantic and Tequila Bar is a lively Worth or Guanabanas on the Ocean — restaurants like Mexican-themed eatery with waterfront in Jupiter. 32 East and The Office offer 225 varieties of tequila and Other favorite haunts varied menus and alfresco guacamole made table side.

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Servin’ the Fare Sunrise Avenue in Palm Beach. Pistache Pistache French bistro and owner Reid Boren is a lifer in Paneterie next door are on the Thierry the restaurant business. His West Palm Beach waterfront on Beaud grandfather was in the trade Clematis Street. in New York, and today, Thierry Beaud, formerly with the progeny continues in The Breakers, is “arguably the business. one of the best restaurateurs He’s a general partner in in Palm Beach County,” Titou Management, a holding boasts Boren, who arrived in company for several well- Palm Beach County in 1989, regarded Palm Beach County attended Rollins College in restaurants and bakeries. PB Winter Park and returned to “You can have the Palm Boren, whose latest project Catch seafood restaurant launch his career. Beach establishment sitting is a departure of sorts: and Patrick Léze patisserie, Quickly, his places have in a jacket and people in Biscayne Beach, a 51-story named for the respected become favorites for locals, shorts at the bar — and both condominium planned for French pastry chef, both are on leaders and tourists alike. feel equally at home,” says Miami’s bay front.

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FLORIDATREND.COM MAY 2014 41 The Nutcracker by Ballet Florida at the Kravis Center Cultural Institutions: A Short List in West Palm Beach Looking for outings or causes in Palm Beach County? Consider these: > Ann Norton > Morikami Museum and Sculpture Gardens Japanese Gardens > Art in Public Places > Mounts Botanical Garden > Boca Raton Museum of Art > Norton Museum of Art > Caldwell Theatre Co. > Old School Square Cultural Arts Center > Cruzan Amphitheatre > Palm Beach International > Flagler Museum Film Festival > Florida Stage > Palm Beach Photographic Centre > Hibel Museum of Art > South Florida > Kravis Center for the Science Center Performing Arts > SunFest waterfront > Lake Worth Playhouse music and arts > Loxahatchee River festival in downtown Historical Museum West Palm Beach

K-12 businesses in banking, industry found here. For example, creation/streaming platform to and biotech, generating Don Estridge High Tech enhance education. The School District of Palm $4 million for students and Middle School in Boca Raton Palm Beach County Beach County was Florida’s schools. With its high-tech uses technology infusion to high schools Alexander W. only urban district to receive an background — IBM created integrate technology as a way Dreyfoos Jr., an acclaimed arts “A” rating for eight consecutive the personal computer in Boca to learn. Students regularly academy in West Palm Beach, years and was named a finalist Raton more than a generation use spreadsheets and software and Suncoast Community for the Broad Prize for Urban ago — it’s no surprise that for projects and teachers High School, a magnet Education from the Eli and strong STEM (science, employ student-response school in Riviera Beach, were Edythe Broad Foundation. technology, engineering devices, smart boards, ranked seventh and eighth, For the 2012 academic year, and math) programs are wireless tablets and the video respectively, in Florida. 10,000 seniors graduated, for a 79.8% graduation rate — the second highest in the state and eighth-best in the nation, according to Education Week. Nine in 10 graduates said they intended to attend college. Of Suncoast those who attended college, Community 5,087 received scholarships High School is totaling $76 million, according to county statistics. a highly ranked The county also has 137 magnet school private and parochial schools, in Riviera Beach. from kindergarten to senior high, with an enrollment of 26,868 students, notes Private School Review. The county school district has 1,200 partnerships with

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Higher Education attendance, and 23 master’s and graduate certificate programs. It also The county is home to the following offers an Ed.D. One in four students colleges and universities: hails from outside the U.S.

> Barry University (branch), Palm > Northwood University, West Palm Beach Gardens. The private Catholic Beach. The private, non-profit institution’s School of Professional and institution offers business-related Career Education offers bachelor’s, bachelor’s and master’s programs in master’s and post-baccalaureate cer- such areas as business, advertising, tificates in more than a dozen areas. finance, entertainment, sports management and hotel and restaurant > Florida Atlantic University, Boca management for traditional and Raton. Part of the State University working students. System, it offers undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate > Nova Southeastern University, programs. The school hosts its Honors Palm Beach Gardens. The school’s College in north county. 75,000-sq.-ft. satellite center (the main campus is outside Fort Lauderdale) > Keiser University, West Palm serves more than 1,300 students Beach. The private, not-for-profit in the Palm Beaches and Treasure school, based in Fort Lauderdale, Coast with bachelor’s, graduate and offers career-focused degrees in doctoral programs. business, criminal justice, nursing and other fields. > Palm Beach Atlantic University, West Palm Beach. An interdenominational > Lincoln College of Technology and Christian university founded in 1968, Florida Culinary Institute, West the school offers 48 undergraduate Palm Beach. Lincoln College offers majors and graduate and professional associate’s, continuing education degree programs in business and diploma programs designed administration, counseling, leadership to meet local needs. It also offers and pharmacy. culinary arts, business management, dental, automotive tech, HVAC, > Palm Beach State College, Lake medical assisting, cosmetology and Worth. With five campuses and hair design. satellite locations, the school serves almost 48,000 students > Lynn University, Boca Raton. The with associate’s and bachelor’s private, co-ed school offers 26 programs and works closely with bachelor’s degrees for traditional area career organizations to align students, and 20 bachelor’s and courses to business needs. Palm certificate programs for evening Beach State College awarded the

photo: Taylor Jones / Newscom 11th-most associate degrees in the U.S., according to Community College Week.

> South University, West Palm Beach. The school offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees and career and personal development programs in CIVIL // MUNICIPAL // SURVEYING // TRANSPORTATION // business, health care, nursing and CONSTRUCTION // SUBSURFACE UTILITY ENGINEERING // legal studies. PLANNING // LAND DEVELOPMENT // ENVIRONMENTAL In the northern part of the county, where Max Planck Florida Institute and Scripps Research Institute reside on the FAU campus, collaboration is vital to shared success, says Eliah Watlington, associate provost. Along with being the exclusive home to FAU’s Harriett L. Wilkes Honors College, in 2013, the school moved six biology and psychology department professors, their equipment and about 40 undergraduate and graduate students and staff to the campus. The advantages are pervasive throughout the relationship, adds Rod Murphey, FAU chairman of biological sciences and director of the Jupiter Life Science After95years,honestyis Initiative. One professor created a Offces throughout Florida 866.909.2220 www.wantmangroup.com spinoff company for a drug discovery related to stroke treatment. Students, stillourbestpolicy. including those in the Honors College who aren’t studying science — though AfterSince 1919, Plastridge 95 Insuranceyears, has been providinghonesty South is 75% do — are introduced to the Floridians with personalized service from dedicated insurance STEM pursuits. professionals.still In fact, ourPlastridge best had the phone policy. number “1” until the early 1940’s and we’re still the first choice for all of your insurance Among the top degrees earned by needs. After95years,honestyis Palm Beach area college graduates Since 1919,We cover Plastridge all aspects Insurance of has personal been providing and business personalized insurance service from with dedicated (2012): stillourbestpolicy. insuranceexpertise professionals. servicing In fact, the Plastridgefollowing hadindustries, the phone and number more: “1” until the early 1940’s and we’re still the first choice for all of your insurance needs. > Health professions, 4,032 Since 1919, Plastridge Insurance has been providing South With offices• Condos in Delray / Coops Beach, / HOA’sBocaFloridians Raton, with Palm personalized Beach service Gardens from dedicated and insuranceStuart, we can > Liberal arts, general studies and professionals. In fact, Plastridge had the phone number “1” until the conveniently• Commercial provide you insurance/ Business servicesearly 1940’s for and the we’re following: still the first choice for all of your insurance humanities, 3,861 needs. Commercial/Business Personal Insurance Financial Services • Hospitality / RestaurantsWe cover all aspects of personal and business insurance with > Business, management, Condos/Coops/HOA’s expertiseHomeowners servicing the following industries, andHealth more: marketing 3,344 Hospitality/Restaurants• Assisted Living / Home •HealthCondosAutomobile / CareCoops / HOA’s Life Assisted Living Boat Long Term Care • Commercial Contractors• Commercial/ / Business > Education, 948 Commercial Contractors/ • HospitalityUmbrella / Restaurants Developers/PropertyDevelopers Managers / Property Managers > Personal and culinary services, 894 • Assisted Living / Home Health Care • Commercial Contractors / Developers / Property Manager > Homeland security, law s enforcement, firefighting, 750

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G-Star School of the Arts in past classrooms and a cafeteria Palm Springs, just south of West before motoring over to what Palm Beach, offers its students looks like a large warehouse. Lights … Camera … typical high school academic Once inside, Hauptner points to fare along with an International shelves lined with paintbrushes, Baccalaureate program if they jars and chalky molds of hu- qualify and want in. man faces that are used in film High School But its electives include classes projects or the school’s popular such as “Playwriting” “Acting for annual “X-Scream” Halloween Students at a charter school in the Camera,” “Film” and “3D Ani- Haunted House. “This is where Palm Beach County get hands- mation.” Among its classrooms they do prosthetics and build is a well-equipped screening faces,” he says. on experience in making movies. room. The entire campus, in fact, The warehouse sits across the Meanwhile, the school uses its functions as a working movie street from a cavernous, $5-mil- studio where students produce a lion, 12,000-sq.-ft., 45-feet-high soundstage and other facilities feature-length movie each year. soundstage — and the school’s to generate revenue. On a golf-cart tour of the showpiece. The studio, built in school, the school’s founder, CEO 2010, gives the school bragging By Lilly Rockwell and CFO Greg Hauptner, drives rights — it’s the only performing

48 MAY 2014 FLORIDATREND.COM photos: Scott Wiseman “I didn’t even know what a the soundstage generates only G-Star charter school was,” Hauptner slightly more than it costs to > Rated “A” by the state says. He took a three-hour course run. He hopes to raise at least on charter schools offered by the $8 million to pay for new build- > Graduates 94% of its county and submitted an appli- ings that will feature World students within four years cation with a business plan. He War II artifacts and interactive > 423 students are on free found available space at a vacant exhibits, along with classrooms or reduced lunch, about Palm Beach County Water Utili- and interactive learning centers. 38% of the student body ties office, which he purchased Meanwhile, the state’s cut in versus 55% for the district. using $5 million in tax-exempt per-pupil funding in 2011 forced and taxable private-activity Hauptner to deplete a rainy-day > 69% of 12th-grade revenue bonds. fund he had built up, he says, and students took the SAT The school opened in 2003 hurt the school’s bond rating. A test in 2012, averaging a with 150 students and 10 fac- 2013 Standard & Poor’s report combined score of 1485, ulty and staff members. Since criticized the school for “weak slightly higher than the then, it has grown to 1,100 financial policies and reporting” district average of 1424. students, 105 faculty and staff and also raised the question of > 267 students took an AP and a waiting list of up to 2,000 succession planning for Haupt- test in 2012. Of those, 220 kids each year. The school gets ner, whom it called the school’s received a grade of “3” or “students applying from all “dynamic leader.” higher on a five-point scale. over the world,” Hauptner says. Hauptner says he has trained “From South Korea, the Neth- the school’s principal, Kim Col- erlands, Brazil, from Germany lins, to be his replacement until and Dubai.” the board finds a permanent po- to practice her elaborate show at Hauptner says he keeps tential replacement. He says the Caesar’s Palace under the same the school afloat in part by school is too new to have gen- lighting and film a few behind- maintaining a lean staff — he has erated a lot of alumni success G-Star School the-scenes shots. two administrative assistants stories. “Nobody has turned out G-Star is able to offer film- and employs six administrative to be a famous star,” he says. of the Arts makers and musicians two major personnel and 13 support staff. “But we have a lot of kids work- founder Greg incentives. The facility is only His wife, Dawn, whom he met ing in the industry,” including Hauptner one of two in the state eligible and married after she moved Dawn’s daughter, Courtney for a 5% tax credit because it to Palm Beach County in 2010 Lillard, who after graduating in and wife qualifies as a motion picture so her three children could 2012 got a job touring Asia and Dawn on the studio. In addition, G-Star offers attend the school, helps with South America with “Disney on set at G-Star discounts on its daily $3,500 rate volunteer fundraising. Ice.” Dawn says “she was cast if users allow the school’s stu- Revenue remains a challenge, right out of high school for one dents to participate in projects. however. Hauptner says that of the lead roles.” Hauptner, 67, is a former hair stylist and salon owner who arts school in the country with its has lived in Florida since 1958. own soundstage — and provides He worked on the hair of stars, students with a true-to-life venue including Kirstie Alley, Charlton where they can gain practical Heston and Farrah Fawcett. experience in movie-making. Success in the salon business The soundstage is also a busi- and his association with film ness that Hauptner uses to help actors led him to a venture in fund the school. So far, G-Star financing movies. But he failed to has rented the soundstage and generate a blockbuster. He sold other campus facilities — en- his salons after getting divorced compassing a total of more than and started a TV production- 100,000 square feet of space — to training program in West Palm more than 60 musicians and Beach to help his son learn the filmmakers, including singer business. After PBS picked up a Celine Dion, who owns a home pilot of a children’s show that the on nearby Jupiter Island in program produced, a friend sug- Martin County, and for a Jen- gested offhandedly that he start a The school uses this donated World War II plane nifer Lopez and Jason Statham charter school focused on movie as a prop. It will eventually become part of a movie. Dion used the soundstage and TV production. collection of props in a WWII learning center.

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> Manuel Almira: Executive director, Port of Palm Beach > Laurel Baker: Executive director, Palm Beach Chamber of Commerce > Mark Bellissimo: CEO, Equestrian Sport Productions > Rena Blades: CEO/president, Cultural Council of Palm Beach Bill Bone County > Bill Bone: Founding partner, Larmoyeux & Bone Fabiola Brumley > Cressman Bronson: Regional president, PNC Bank Palm Beach County President / Bank of America > Tony Brown: Executive director, Fabiola Brumley’s market area includes Florida and stretches up the east Riviera Beach Community coast across 10 states to Maryland. Growth in Palm Beach County has been Redevelopment Agency keeping Brumley busy, and the bank is trying to capitalize on the county’s > Daniel Cane: Founder/president/ proximity to key corridors like Latin America along with European travel and CEO, Modernizing Medicine investment. The state’s favorable tax climate helps, she says. “That tends to attract businesses from outside the state.” Raised in Broward County with Tony > Linda Cartlidge: Principal, a bachelor’s and an MBA from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Brown Suncoast Community High School Brumley has been with the bank more than 30 years and sits on almost a > Lenny Chesal: Executive vice dozen non-profit boards. president, Host.net > Raphael Clemente: Executive director, West Palm Beach Raphael Downtown Development Authority Michael Daszkal Clemente Managing Partner, Co-founder / Daszkal Bolton CPAs

Michael Daszkal and Jeff Bolton opened their CPA firm in 1992. Today, the firm has three offices, more than 115 people and 2013 revenue of $16 million. A Detroit native, Daszkal followed his family to Boca Raton after college. The firm serves leading law firms, investors and some of the area’s biotech companies. Daszkal is on the boards of both the Florida Atlantic University College of Business and its Research Park. Bolton died in a swimming accident in the Bahamas in 2013, but his legacy lives on — in the systems he put in place, and the growth the firm enjoys. “His name comes up every day,” Daszkal says.

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> Alfonso and Pepe Fanjul: Owners, Fanjul Corp., Florida Crystals > Jerry Fedele: President/CEO, Boca Raton Regional Hospital > William M.B. Fleming Jr.: President, Palm Beach Atlantic University > Dennis Gallon: President, Palm Jerry Beach State College Fedele > Dennis Grady: President/CEO, Chamber of Commerce of the H. William Perry Palm Beaches Managing Shareholder / Gunster > Ryan Hallihan: General manager, CityPlace A county resident since he was 16, Bill Perry enjoys having a hand in the county’s transformation. Among the deals Perry has helped steer: Kolter Homes’ purchase of 600 acres, the opening of the Palm Beach Outlets mall and Rybovich Marina owner Wayne Huizenga Jr.’s planned transformation of the West Palm Beach shoreline. The deals and the growth they represent, he says, “are really moving the county up a notch.” Perry is also active statewide, flying his Cessna 182 to business meetings all around Florida.

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In 1983, Tom Lynch joined the Bethesda Hospital Foundation and soon became head of the Delray Chamber Rachel of Commerce. In 1985 — a time when his city was “a mess, > Christine D. Hanley: Partner, Docekal scary with drug deals and crime” — he was picked to FordHarrison chair its Community Redevelopment Agency. He soon served three terms > Rick Hayduk: President, Boca as mayor, during which the city was named an All America City. He served Raton Resort & Club two terms, including chair, of Palm Beach County Schools. Today, the father of six and grandfather of 10 is the mayor of the Village of Golf, a 155-home > Bob Healey: Chairman/CEO, enclave just west of Delray Beach. Viking Developers

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