Apollo Puts Texas on a Short List of Sites for a Second Headquarters

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Stop me if you’ve heard this before (actually, please keep reading): A Wall Street giant is looking at Texas as an expansion candidate.

Texas and Florida are on the short list for a possible second headquarters for New York-based Apollo Global Management. “We’ve shared with our teams across Apollo and Athene that we plan to establish a second headquarters in either Texas or South Florida, alongside NYC,” an Apollo spokesperson told Bloomberg after the Financial Times reported the plans.