WEST PALM BEACH — Call it a COVID shot. Since the pandemic’s dark days of Summer 2020, the City of West Palm Beach has been a boomtown. Today, the clanging of construction cranes permeates an area of the city that 20 years was once home to Streamline Publishing, with gleaming new high-rises welcoming hotel guests and residents alike as the Brightline high-speed train whizzes passengers to Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Orlando.
This has made land values particularly valuable in the downtown core. That could be one explanation as to why The E.W. Scripps Co. decided two years ago to leave the 24-year home for the market’s NBC affiliate, WPTV-5.
What’s now making news is that the station is leaving the city for a nearby municipality.
