by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly There was little talk Monday night of the city of Pensacola’s youth soccer complex proposed for property currently home to the YMCA on Langley Avenue. Residents attending a…
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Reflections on Carpenter’s Creek
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –Ora Wills paints a vivid picture of living near Carpenter’s Creek before that area of Pensacola was developed into the landscape of malls and hospitals and big box…
The Great Soccer Debate
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The Valentine’s Day public gallery was awash with waves of red and green for the Pensacola City Council meeting, with opponents of a planned soccer complex off of…
Presser Notes: ST, soccer and safer streets
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –After patching together must-have funding commitments for Project Triumph last week, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson said the city’s hopes for the jobs-and-infrastructure project now rests with the state…
County pitches in on Titan
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson secured an additional $5 million from Escambia County Thursday night for a jobs and infrastructure project at the airport. The commitment was needed as…
BBC Project Titan Preview
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –It looks likely that Escambia County will cough up another $5 million for the city of Pensacola’s Project Titan, a jobs and infrastructure project at the airport. At…
Council narrowly approves more Titan Money
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –The Pensacola City Council narrowly approved committing another $5 million to the so-called Project Titan — a jobs and infrastructure project at the airport — after lengthy debates…
Presser: Titan, Annexation & the DIB
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Much of Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s time as of late has been devoted to securing funds for the jobs-related infrastructure project at the airport dubbed “Project Titan.” “I…
CivicCon 2.0: SCAPE visits
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly …Pensacola’s civic-engagement experiment entered a new phase Tuesday evening, with the formal unveiling of a new community resource organization and introduction of landscape architecture consultants to reimagine the…
Presser notes: ST Scramble, Fear of Clawbacks & Power of Myth
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –Much of Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s weekly press conference was spent discussing the city’s manufacturing-jobs ambitions at the airport — dubbed Project Titan — but other subjects were touched on…
Town Hall: Dreams of Sidewalks and Annexations
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly During his first town hall meeting Thursday night, Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson heard from citizens on a range of issues, from on-the-ground concerns like sidewalks and street lighting…
Scenic Heights visits Council chambers
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly During council’s Jan. 17 meeting, members heard from residents of the Scenic Heights neighborhood in regards to the city’s plans for a soccer complex off of Langley Avenue….
Council increases monthly meetings
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –The Pensacola City Council is upping the number of meetings it holds, with members deciding to move to two meetings per months, each preceded earlier in the week…
More ST Engineering jobs in 2019
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly –ST Engineering is forecasting job growth for its operations at the Pensacola airport, even as city officials continue to search for the funding needed to keep the jobs-project…
Soccer in the vestibule
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Billed as a public input session for Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s transition team, a Tuesday night city meeting quickly spiraled off in another direction, with many attendees wanting…
Agenda Review: Complete Streets, Renaming Bridge
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The city of Pensacola may be scrapping its Bicycle Advisory Committee. Officials discussed dropping the committee and creating a board to focus on establishing a Complete Streets ordinance….
TT: Civic engagement, with a slice of cake
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The transition team studying various aspects of the city of Pensacola to prepare a collection of recommendations for Mayor Grover Robinson is in the thick of its work….
TT: Education
A collection of parents and educators gathered in the Cordova Park Elementary library Tuesday evening to discuss how the city of Pensacola might best improve the area’s academic landscape, one with notable…
TT: CRA review
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola Finance Director Dick Barker said he was going to give mathematical factuals but also sprinkle in some opinion when going over the ins and outs of the…
TT notes:Walkability, Environment and Neighborhoods
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Three members of Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson’s transition team hosted a joint public input session Monday at the Theophalis May Resource Center at Legion Field. With each member…
