It will take a while.” GabonMore than half of Olam’s Mouila plantation, where these workers are planting palm saplings, occupies savanna—a site chosen to avoid more deforestation.

On a warm morning at the end of the dry season, early November, a red and black Bell Jet Ranger helicopter raced eastward above the palm savanna of Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park.

Savanna's redevelopment plans for West Palm Beach are a pivot from the company's longtime presence in New York as an office high-rise developer and owner. But the company is all in on Florida now.