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 through Zillow every night, and there wasn’t a lot of inventory,” Tousey recalls. They settled on a 1950s bungalow in Palm Beach that they’re now renovating while they rent from a family friend nearby. “We basically beat the rush by a week.”
Palm Beach s Iconic Colony Hotel Gets a Fun, Fresh Redesign
Kemble Interiors turned the lobby into the living room of your dreams. Brantley Photography The Colony is much more than a hotel The Colony is a state of mind, says Sarah Wetenhall. Admittedly, Wetenhall is a bit biased she, along with her husband Andrew, have been the owners of this iconic Palm Beach property since 2016. But, as any local or loyal visitor can attest, the famed pink hotel is a beloved stalwart of the Florida town and a nostalgic bastion of the kind of preppy beach style that made Palm Beach famous. Now, thanks to Kemble Interiors s Celerie Kemble and Mimi McMakin with help from de Gournay the hotel has a brand new (but still wholly Palm Beach) look.
Coastline of Palm Beach, Florida
Virus-weary young New Yorkers are packing up and moving to Florida’s Palm Beach, turning the island into what estate agents are calling a “Hamptons of the South”.
With less of a need to work out of offices in Manhattan, which levies some of the highest taxes in the country, young professionals are abandoning the Big Apple in favour of a quieter life.
Palm Beach, which has long been popular with retirees, is now seeing an influx of younger families.
The median age is “dropping faster than SpaghettiOs from a toddler’s highchair,” a Sotheby’s realtor said in a recent letter to clients.
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