---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-058189"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HHH"
cik: "0001981792"
company_name: "Howard Hughes Holdings Inc."
filed_at: "2025-06-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T16:18:52.907993+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# President L. Jay Cross retires effective June 30, 2025; receives $4.57M in cash plus equity acceleration

## Summary
- Cross will step down as President and executive officer on June 30, 2025, vs. prior Dec 1 non-renewal.
- Separation package: $317,308 base salary through Dec 1, $1.95M 2025 bonus, and $2.3M discretionary cash payment.
- 29,980 restricted shares and 17,208 stock options vest immediately; 41,926 performance shares remain outstanding.
- COBRA premiums reimbursed through Dec 31, 2025; standard release and nondisparagement obligations apply.
- 2025 annual meeting set for Sept 30; record date Aug 4; shareholder proposal deadlines June 23 (14a-8) and July 2 (other).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-058189
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HHH
- cik: 0001981792
- company_name: Howard Hughes Holdings Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-06-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1981792/000110465925058189/0001104659-25-058189-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1981792/000110465925058189/tm2517417d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-058189.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  L. Jay Cross retired as President at Howard Hughes Holdings Inc..
  - Action: retired
  - Role: President
  source text: The Company and Mr. Cross have now agreed that Mr. Cross will retire from and cease to be an executive officer of the Company effective June 30, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1981792/000110465925058189/0001104659-25-058189-index.htm

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