Business & Commerce

employers. One of the area’s leading residential builders, GL Homes is turning vacant land into thriving neighborhoods— all delivering the Florida lifestyle from Boca Raton to Boynton Beach. Local contractor Kast Construction boasts a portfolio from multifamily communities and condominiums to hotels, offices, retail, industrial, municipal, country clubs and educational facilities. Another local contractor, Gast Construction, was named the AIA Palm Beach 2021 Builder of the Year for its work in commercial, residential, and construction and estate management.

Engineering, design and land planning firms are benefiting from new investment and development throughout the region. iPlan & Design is a full-service zoning and site planning consulting firm with a variety of South Florida development and redevelopment projects. Schmidt Nichols provides landscape design, consulting and land planning services to clients around the county and the region.

Financial Services

Its strong business and affluent population base have made Palm Beach County a decades-long darling of the financial services sector. That only accelerated since the pandemic. Hundreds of asset management firms, hedge funds and financial services firms teem in the Flagler Financial District, now known as “Wall Street South.” This access to global wealth management and international markets make West Palm Beach one of Inc. magazine’s top 25 cities to do business in. While the county has all the banking names one would expect from a major destination, our local brands bring a home-bred appeal. For generations, community banks, such as Seacoast Bank, have helped people improve their lives and build our communities—with the right mix of personal attention and technological efficiency.

Health Care

High-quality health service is critical in Palm Beach County, with the leading national names providing first-class care. Tenet Healthcare’s five hospitals span the county. Jupiter Medical Center, a not-for-profit 297-bed regional medical center, is expanding rapidly in order to meet the needs of the fast-growing region. Services include neonatal intensive care, cardiac surgery and electrophysiology programs, the Anderson Family Cancer Institute, and a collaborative partnership with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami. Baptist Health South Florida’s worldclass care includes the acquisition of Boca Raton Regional Hospital and five Bethesda-branded hospitals, urgent care, and physician group and women’s health centers. Cleveland Clinic Florida—West Palm Beach provides access to specialists in internal medicine, neurology, orthopedics, spine, pulmonary, colorectal and heart services. The Paley Orthopedic and Spine Institute on the St. Mary’s Medical Center campus provides limb deformity correction to patients from all over the world.