Independent NewsPosts Tagged ‘Downtown Pensacola’
City of Mobile has downtown club issues, too
Mobile Press Register: The owner of the Alabama Music Box believes the boundaries of a proposed entertainment district that excludes the music venue is another example of "constant harassment" he's faced since opening the establishment five years ago. Being included within the entertainment [...]
PYP explains its forum regarding URAC
Tonight the Pensacola Young Professionals are holding a forum at The Fish House on the October, 2012 report by the Mayor's Urban Redevelopment Advisory Committee (URAC). Though the forum has been promoted to the PYP membership as an opportunity for them to vote on three URAC recommendation that [...]
What would the new downtown YMCA look like?
One of the hottest topics downtown is the proposal that the YMCA relocate its downtown facility to the Community Maritime Park. The YMCA board hasn't said much yet on the idea, but I found in my notes of a report that outlines what the YMCA does for the community and what the facility may [...]
If you live downtown, shower Saturday night
ECUA Press Release: Downtown Pensacola Water Customers Will Experience Loss of Water on Sunday, January 20, 2013 Effective Sunday, January 20, 2013, from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m., ECUA water customers located in downtown Pensacola will experience loss of water. The City of Pensacola is [...]
PYP to vote on its URAC recommendations
The new game in town is "Waiting for Ashton." It consists of giving him a report, having a press conference and then waiting for the mayor to make a decision. Right now, Hayward has on his plate the disparity study (since August), Urban Redevelopment Advisory Committee (URAC) report (since [...]
Alfresco food court to open first food trailer in February
Alfresco’s, the food court on the corner of Palafox and Main streets, is close to opening, at least partially. Two Airstream trailers are being placed on the property. Z Taco, with a Fresh Mex menu, is set to open late February. Gouda Stuff, with gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches, will open [...]
R.I.P. Distinctive Kitchens
A downtown retail mainstay since 2004, Distinctive Kitchens has closed. The doors have been locked for weeks. A "Closed for Inventory" sign has been on the front door throughout the holiday shopping season. Owner Robin Martin gambled on downtown Pensacola taking his business Pensacola Appliance, [...]
Black Friday Parking
For those looking to head downtown for your Black Friday shopping, you may be concerned about parking. You can spend you change at the stores because downtown metered and timed parking will not be enforced. The downtown parking managers need a day off too. “We will not enforce timed or metered [...]
What Charlie Fairchild said about Maritime Park in 2005
The year was 2005. Pensacola had finished a series of town hall meetings on a proposed community maritime park. Charlie Fairchild, C.C. Elebash and Marty Donovan were working behind the scenes to defeat the project. I actually interviewed Fairchild in July 2005 about the project ("Save Our City," [...]
Rubio will hold meeting at The Fish House, July 14
The Fish House remains the meeting place for visiting Republicans. Press Release: Senate candidate Marco Rubio will be in Pensacola this Wednesday, July 14th, for a roundtable discussion concerning the oil spill and other topics. The public is invited to come to The Fish House in downtown [...]
CMP 101
The blog has grown beyond Northwest Florida. We are approaching a million page views a month. Some of the new readers have been drawn here because of The Daily Beast and my coverage of the BP oil disaster. Others have been attracted by my investigations into the Billings murders. When I cover [...]
It’s time to end this nonsense
We have two has-beens--scions of old Pensacola--that are out to stop a project that will revitalize downtown Pensacola and, in the process, are trying to become relevant. Marty Donovan is the classic lose-lose personality. He doesn't care about losing as long as everybody loses. Instead of [...]