Topgolf First to Open at the Pier Park City Center℠ Development in Panama City Beach, Florida

PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 1, 2025--

The St. Joe Company (NYSE: JOE) (“St. Joe”) celebrates the opening of Topgolf at the Pier Park City Center development, a St. Joe mixed-use site that broke ground in 2024 in Panama City Beach, Florida.

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The two-level golf and entertainment venue opened on June 27, 2025 and is the tenth Topgolf location in Florida. The first Pier Park City Center business to open, Topgolf features 74 outdoor climate-controlled hitting bays along with a full-service restaurant and bar and year-round family-friendly programming.

“Topgolf will serve as an anchor for the Pier Park City Center development, helping to attract new businesses, spark additional investment and enhance the area’s appeal as a dynamic hub for commercial opportunities,” said William Brock, St. Joe Vice President for Commercial Real Estate. “Already a draw for the millions of visitors to Panama City Beach each year, the Pier Park shopping and entertainment district offers an ideal destination for new and established concepts looking to thrive in a high-traffic, high-growth environment.”

With plans for family-oriented entertainment concepts, the Pier Park City Center development spans approximately 80 acres in the popular Pier Park district, which currently includes more than one million square feet of retail and dining concepts as well as three hotels with a total of 500 rooms.

For more information about Topgolf Panama City Beach visit topgolf.com/us/panama-city-beach. To inquire about entertainment and commercial opportunities in the Pier Park City Center development, call 1.888.836.8353 or email lease@joe.com.

Important Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains “forward-looking statements,” within the meaning of Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements regarding the Pier Park City Center development, including those involving potential tenants, additional investment and future entertainment concepts. These forward-looking statements are qualified in their entirety by cautionary statements and risk factors set forth in St. Joe filings with the SEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024 and subsequent current report filings, as well as the following: (1) the ability of St. Joe to complete Pier Park City Center development and (2) the interest of prospective tenants, customers and purchasers.

About The St. Joe Company

The St. Joe Company (“Company”) is a diversified real estate development, asset management and operating company with real estate assets and operations in Northwest Florida. The Company intends to use existing assets for residential, hospitality and commercial ventures and has significant residential and commercial land-use entitlements. The Company actively seeks higher and better uses for its real estate assets through a range of development activities. More information about St. Joe can be found on its website at www.joe.com.

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Topgolf serves as the anchor for the Pier Park City Center development, which will focus on family-oriented entertainment concepts

Topgolf Panama City Beach opened June 27, 2025 in the Pier Park City Center development

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Richard “Dick” Codey, a former acting governor of New Jersey and the longest serving legislator in the state's history, died Sunday. He was 79.

Codey’s wife, Mary Jo Codey, confirmed her husband’s death to The Associated Press.

“Gov. Richard J. Codey passed away peacefully this morning at home, surrounded by family, after a brief illness,” Codey's family wrote in a Facebook post on Codey's official page.

"Our family has lost a beloved husband, father and grandfather -- and New Jersey lost a remarkable public servant who touched the lives of all who knew him," the family said.

Known for his feisty, regular-guy persona, Codey was a staunch advocate of mental health awareness and care issues. The Democrat also championed legislation to ban smoking from indoor areas and sought more money for stem cell research.

Codey, the son of a northern New Jersey funeral home owner, entered the state Assembly in 1974 and served there until he was elected to the state Senate in 1982. He served as Senate president from 2002 to 2010.

Codey first served as acting governor for a brief time in 2002, after Christine Todd Whitman’s resignation to join President George W. Bush’s administration. He held the post again for 14 months after Gov. Jim McGreevey resigned in 2004.

At that time, New Jersey law mandated that the Senate president assume the governor’s role if a vacancy occurred, and that person would serve until the next election.

Codey routinely drew strong praise from residents in polls, and he gave serious consideration to seeking the Democratic nomination for governor in 2005. But he ultimately chose not to run when party leaders opted to back wealthy Wall Street executive Jon Corzine, who went on to win the office.

Codey would again become acting governor after Corzine was incapacitated in April 2007 due to serious injuries he suffered in a car accident. He held the post for nearly a month before Corzine resumed his duties.

After leaving the governor’s office, Codey returned to the Senate and also published a memoir that detailed his decades of public service, along with stories about his personal and family life.

“He lived his life with humility, compassion and a deep sense of responsibility to others,” his family wrote. “He made friends as easily with Presidents as he did with strangers in all-night diners.”

Codey and his wife often spoke candidly about her past struggles with postpartum depression, and that led to controversy in early 2005, when a talk radio host jokingly criticized Mary Jo and her mental health on the air.

Codey, who was at the radio station for something else, confronted the host and said he told him that he wished he could “take him outside.” But the host claimed Codey actually threatened to “take him out,” which Codey denied.

His wife told The Associated Press that Codey was willing to support her speaking out about postpartum depression, even if it cost him elected office.

“He was a really, really good guy,” Mary Jo Codey said. “He said, ‘If you want to do it, I don’t care if I get elected again.’”

Jack Brook contributed reporting from New Orleans.

FILE - New Jersey State Sen. and former Democratic Gov. Richard Codey is seen before New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy delivers his State of the State address to a joint session of the Legislature at the statehouse, in Trenton, N.J., Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)