Palm Beach Daily News
Palm Beach is searching for a retail consultant that can help enhance shopping on the island with suggestions on filling dozens of empty storefronts and streamlining town code that might be blocking some stores from opening.
Town Council members agreed during a development review meeting Wednesday to issue a request for proposal to companies it hopes can turnaround what Planning and Zoning Committee Chairman Michael Ainslie called “the biggest crisis the town’s retail sector has ever faced.”
“We have over 40 vacant stores on Worth Avenue, its vias and the adjoining streets, including South County Road,” Ainslie said. “We also have an empty Neiman Marcus store that will never reopen as a department store again.”