It’s pretty incredible how much has happened in South Florida just in 2026: • Jan 12: Vanderbilt moves forward with a ~$520M West Palm Beach campus. Stephen Ross commits $50M. • Jan 20: Wells Fargo moves its Wealth & Investment Management HQ to West Palm Beach. ~$16B annual revenue business. • Jan 27: D-Wave moves its corporate HQ from Palo Alto → Boca Raton and builds a major R&D operation at BRiC. • Jan 27: FAU commits $20M to bring a D-Wave quantum computer to Boca and build out its quantum ecosystem. • Feb 17: Palantir moves its HQ from Denver → South Florida. • Mar 25: KKR opens a permanent office in Miami. • June 2: Pine Crest announces a new West Palm Beach campus. Stephen Ross ultimately commits $100M to the project. • Sep 10: Andreessen Horowitz announces a West Palm Beach regional HQ for its $1.176B American Dynamism fund. • Sep 11: Stephen Ross / Related Ross buys BRiC in Boca: 124 acres + 1.7M sq. ft. of space. • Sep 30: Ken Griffin gives Carnegie Mellon $3 BILLION, the largest individual gift in higher-ed history. $2B goes toward building CMU Miami in Wynwood for 3,500+ students. And this is on top of Citadel building its new Miami HQ and Stephen Ross planning $10B+ of investment across Palm Beach County. Vanderbilt. Carnegie Mellon. Palantir. D-Wave. a16z. KKR. Wells Fargo. Citadel. FAU. Pine Crest. Miami → Fort Lauderdale → Boca → West Palm. Feels like South Florida is hitting an inflection point, and we’re just getting started. This reads much more naturally for X/LinkedIn while keeping the numbers that make the story impressive.