The CMPA board passed the recommendation to use New Market Tax Credits as a funding mechanism for the Maritime Museum. Today the Pensacola City Council will have a presentation of the funding…
Tag: Communty Maritime Park
CMP environmental permits by 12/31/08
From Ed Spears,Neighborhood & Economic Development Administrato, City of Pensacola : At today’s Board of Trustees meeting, Mr. Larry O’Donnell of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection came in person, to provide…
CMPA sets timeline for Master Developer contract
At today’s Board meeting, the Trustees approved the following timeline for the consideration of the Master Developer Agreement: 12/1/08 – 1 p.m. Special CMPA meeting. Draft Agreement with Master Developer received from…
City stalls on CMPA bonds
Remember all the ballyhoo over the Pensacola City Council passing the alternative funding proposal for the bonds for the Community Maritime Park? The city staff has no plans to do anything on…
Surprise: Marty Donovan begs for lawsuit
The Pensacola City Council approved in the Committee of the Whole a new financing plan for the Community Maritime Park – 9-1. According to the daily newspaper, the lone dissenter and long-time…
If we only had the CMP…
A Commander’s Palace restaurant (cost $6 million) opened this weekend at Destin’s Legendary’s HarborWalk Village, the $250 million destination project. We could have had that famous New Orleans restaurant if only the…
Notes: CMPA meeting 6.13.08
June 13 Community Maritime Park Associates Board meeting notes: Much of Friday’s Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees was standing room only as the two master developer candidates gave their presentations…
PNj misses the point on CMP
The Pensacola News Journal ran another negative story on the Community Maritime Park. The information is fairly accurate, but they overlook how responsible Save Our City and Councilman Marty Donovan are for…
Council movement on CMP
I am hearing that Councilmen Mike DeSorbo and Jewel Cannada-Wynn are really pushing for the city staff to come up with a plan for alternative financing for the Community Maritime Park. This…
What is happening in District 3
The IN focuses on the poorest neighborhoods of Pensacola and Escambia County. The areas are represented by State Rep. Clay Ford, Commissioner Marie Young, and City Councilmen Ronald Townsend, John Jerralds, and…
559 days since CMP vote
It has been 559 days since Pensacola voters approved the Community Maritime Park – or 1 year, 6 months, 12 days. 559 days can be converted to one of these units: *…
City held hostage 545 days
545 days since the CMP referendum was passed. 545 days without 1500 construction jobs and their $1 million dollar payroll circulating through the city. 1 year, 5 months, 27 days. 47,088,000 seconds…