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WEST PALM BEACH — The Miss America pageant is coming to Palm Beach County for the next three years
Robin Fleming, owner of the Miss America Organization, announced on Thursday, May 7, that the pageant’s 105th edition will take place at the county Convention Center from Aug. 28 through Sept. 7.
The Miss America Teen pageant will take place at the Kravis Center for the Performing Arts.
Fleming shared the news during an event in West Palm Beach for National Travel and Tourism Week by Discover The Palm Beaches.
“The Palm Beaches are not just welcoming Miss America as this is our new home,” Fleming said during the news conference at the Hilton hotel at Palm Beach International Airport. “You’re helping to find the future of female leadership.”
It will mark the second consecutive year the pageant has taken place in Florida. Miss America held its 2025 at the Walt Disney Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center for Performing Arts in Orlando.
A key player in bringing the pageant to West Palm Beach was Stephen Ross, the city’s leading developer, Fleming said.
“Certainly this is a conversation that started a year ago with Steve and Lynn Ross, who, when they found out that I was heading up Miss America, they said, ‘Why are you not in the Palm Beaches?’ ” Fleming said. “As you know, Steve Ross is such a big investor into West Palm Beach, so they sort of lit the spark.”
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Valentina Palm covers immigration and West Palm Beach for The Palm Beach Post. Email her at vpalm@pbpost.com and follow her on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, at @ValenPalmB.
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