Spirit Airlines to build new $250 million headquarters

Spirit Airlines will build state-of-the-art headquarters in Dania Beach, Florida worth $250 million. The airline, headquartered in South Florida for more than 20 years, submitted site plans to the City of Dania Beach to build a campus up to 500,000 sq ft at Dania Pointe, with the carrier planning to move into the facility by 2022. Approximately 1,000 employees are planned to move from the company’s current facilities in Miramar to the new Dania Pointe site just minutes away from Spirit’s largest operating base, Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL). Spirit Airlines President and CEO Ted Christie said: “It was two