Category: Business
Breaking: Hobby Lobby shopping center to be converted to a church
Cushman & Wakefield has arranged the $7 million sale of a shopping center located at 6235 N. Davis Highway where Hobby Lobby and Books-A-Million are…
Ascension Sacred Heart named to Newsweek prestigious list
Newsweek’s prestigious 2025 list of the best-in-state hospitals includes Sacred Heart Pensacola and Sacred Heart Emerald Coast, placing the Ascension Sacred Heart facilities alongside just…
Top Posts for week ending Oct. 26, 2024
Readers were interested in hearing about the UWF Haas Center study of the economic impact of light industrial at OLF-8 and the Chamber’s support of…
What Pensacola listened to last week:
Listeners enjoyed hearing about Home Base Pensacola and today’s Human Trafficking Conference. They also enjoyed listening to our entire shows while driving or working out….
Foiling Week accepting entries
With four months to go, entries are now open for Foiling Week Pensacola 2025, the multi-class “World Sailing Special Event” to be held in Florida…
Daily Outtakes: Questions about St. Michael crashes and OLF-8 answered
Earlier this week, I received this email: Inweekly Friends, How many cars are going to crash through the fences around St. Michael’s Cemetery before the…
Remembering Mel Showers
Renowned news anchor Mel Showers passed away this weekend. Mel worked at Mobile’s WKRG-TV for nearly 50 years and had profound influence in Mobile and…
SEC Soccer, Sun Belt Basketball contract renewed
The Escambia County Commission has approved new agreements to host the Southeastern Conference Women’s Soccer Championships and the Sun Belt Conference Basketball Championships through the…
Daily Outtakes: Triumph funds job training, American Magic/UWF WAVE Center
At its meeting in Pensacola on Tuesday, the Triumph Gulf Coast Board approved funds for job training programs in Escambia and Santa Rosa counties and…
Daily Outtakes: Plan B for Pensacola Bay Center. What is it?
Hoteliers are upset over the $90-million plan to use the fifth cent of the bed tax to cover the bonds to renovate the Pensacola Bay…
Breaking: PNJ paid print distribution tumbles to less than 5K
On Thursday, Oct. 3, the Pensacola News Journal published its United States Postal Service Statement of Ownership, Management, and Circulation. The report shows the newspaper’s…
Snack Stock 2024 helps Ascension Sacred Heart cancer patients
PenAir Credit Union (PenAir) has launched its second annual Snack Stock, a community-wide snack collection drive to benefit Ascension Sacred Heart Cancer Centers. Its branches…
Real News: Megalopolis, Four Winds, UWF and more
I apologize for not uploading these interviews until today. My Friday was filled with other projects. Francis Ford Coppola’s new movie “Megalopolis” – is it…
Daily Outtakes: Once upon a time, we had an arena, field house and conference center proposal
Seven years ago, Pensacola hotelier Jay Patel presented an ambitious plan, involving eight national companies, to create a $65 million public-private partnership to build a…
Real News: Housing, Murder, Nursing, Voting and more
Mayor D.C. Reeves discusses why he supports the Community Land Trust. A 20-year friendship came to a devastating end when the Letcher Co, Kentucky elected…
Daily Outtakes: Location of indoor sports facility does not matter
Studies show that an indoor sports facility would have a much more significant economic impact than adding a conference center. While neither project would generate…
Pensacola loves to kill projects, the methods do not change
For the past two weeks, I have researched how Pensacola and Escambia County have studied sports tourism, indoor sports facilities and meeting facilities for the…
Real News: This is the week for National Estuaries, Banned Books
The Pensacola & Perdido Bays Estuary Program (PPBEP) invites the community to celebrate National Estuaries Week from Sept. 21-28. National Estuaries Week is a nationwide…
BOC winner The Daily Squeeze comes to its end
From their Facebook page: So it’s true what they say, all good things must come to an end. In 2019 we opened our doors to…
Pensacola Chamber holds annual meeting
Press Release: The Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce celebrated its 134th Annual Meeting at Sanders Beach Resource Center on Wednesday, September 18th. The meeting featured…
