Item 2. PROPERTIES

We operate our business from our principal location in St. Petersburg, Florida, the Carillon Office Park, a 1.25 million square foot office park that we own. Additionally, we own approximately 65 acres of land located in Pasco County, Florida for future development and occupancy as needed. We conduct certain operations from our owned facility in Southfield, Michigan, comprising approximately 90,000 square feet, and operate a 40,000 square foot information technology data center on land we own in the Denver, Colorado area. Generally, our owned locations and principal leases, identified below, support all of our business segments.

We lease the premises we occupy in other U.S. and foreign locations, including employee-based branch office operations. Leases for branch offices for independent contractors are the responsibility of the respective independent contractor financial advisors and are not included in the amounts listed below. Our leases contain various expiration dates through fiscal year 2031. Our principal leases are in the following locations:

We regularly monitor the facilities owned or occupied by our company to ensure that they suit our needs. To the extent that they do not meet our needs, we expand, contract or relocate, as necessary.

See Note 17 of the Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements of this Form 10-K for information regarding our lease obligations.