Last week, we reported that Belmont Hall – food and entertainment complex – may move to a site near the Port of Pensacola and the ferry landing. The project is the brainchild of Jordan Yee and Alistair McKenzie.
“We’ve switched gears now, and we are headed to the port, hopefully. We have filed an LOI (Letter of Intent) with them and are in the process of very early stages of discussing doing the food hall down there,” said McKenzie on “Real News with Rick Outzen” this morning.
This week, the Pensacola City Council will discuss an agreement to develop nearby warehouse at port into a indoor sports facility for pickleball, as well as volleyball and basketball. The city already has an agreement for a developer to build a hotel near the ferry landing.
“When Scape came to town and did their whole Waterfront master plan, along with James Lima, they had identified this area, including the port, the hashtag connector, which they think is the part of the waterfront that needs to be super activated in order for Pensacola really to take up another level with its downtown,” said McKenzie.
“They said that they needed a catalytic project down in that area. And we think that the food hall, which is a business incubator as well as an entertainment complex, is the perfect catalytic business that’ll kind of fit the bill of what they were talking about.”
