{"id":236031,"date":"2026-04-17T19:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:48:07","slug":"op-ed-floridas-still-an-investment-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/236031\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Florida&#8217;s still an investment destination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"auto\" class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1ncwys3\">Florida\u2019s economy isn\u2019t just growing. It\u2019s being built in real time.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1ncwys3\">At a moment when economic uncertainty continues to dominate the national conversation, Florida\u2019s business leaders are making a different kind of statement. They are investing.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1ncwys3\">The latest CEO Economic Outlook Index from The Florida Council of 100 shows that Florida executives remain significantly more optimistic than their national peers. But beyond sentiment, what matters most is what leaders are choosing to do with that confidence.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1ncwys3\">They are putting capital to work.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"auto\" class=\"framer-text framer-styles-preset-1ncwys3\">Across the state, CEOs are increasing investment in new facilities, technology, and infrastructure. These are not short-term decisions. Capital investment is one of the clearest signals of long-term conviction. It reflects where leaders believe opportunity will exist not just next quarter, but over the next decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida\u2019s economy isn\u2019t just growing. It\u2019s being built in real time. At a moment when economic uncertainty continues&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-236031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}