Last year, the PNJ reported on Jordan Yee and Alistair McKenzie building a food hall and multi-purpose outdoor area in the parking lot across from the SCI Building on Garden Street.
Belmont Hall plans included a large food hall, a terrace, an event space and an open-air lawn for community events. The lot on the corner of Spring and Garden streets had an option for the Studers to buy it back if construction was begun by a certain date. The credit crunch stalled the construction, and the Studers bought back the land.
McKenzie told me last night that he is working on an agreement to move the project to the Port of Pensacola near the proposed pickleball facility and the ferry landing.
I spoke with Quint this morning. He and Rishy are looking at a developing project similar to the Pins Mechanical Company in the Bottleworks District in Indianapolis.
Quint said that they won’t need the entire lot for the project and would like to work with Yee and McKenzie because the site has enough space for both. But he also thinks the Port location would be a great site for them.
He said, “We love those guys and support whatever they do.”