Category: Business
Pensacola gets $12 million EDA grant
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly The U.S. Department of Commerce is awarding the City of Pensacola a $12.25 million grant to further efforts to build out…
Levin Papantonio wins $1.1 million award
Arbitrators with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, FINRA, awarded over $1.1 million to Levin Papantonio clients in the Mobile, Ala. area who lost investments and…
DIB applications sought
Mayor Grover Robinson is accepting applications to expand the pool of candidates for appointment to the Downtown Improvement Board. There is currently one vacancy on…
Chamber hosts State of City
The Greater Pensacola Chamber will host a State of the City luncheon 11:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20 at the Pensacola Yacht Club, 1897 Cypress…
Grover’s big leadership challenge
The announcement that Baptist Health Care is building a $550 million hospital facility on Brent Lane and leaving west Pensacola poses a big leadership challenge…
SCAPE: ‘Another Transformative Moment’
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Prior to the plan’s proper unveiling Monday evening at The Rex Theatre, the Pensacola City Council was offered an early-morning glimpse…
Amtrak coming back, but not here
U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) announced last Friday the award of a $33 million grant from the Federal Railroad Administration to fund infrastructure and capacity…
Group calls for carving out $133 million in ‘turkeys’
By Jim Turner, The News Service of Florida TALLAHASSEE — Florida TaxWatch says $133 million should be slashed from the state’s proposed budget, though Gov….
New fire code puts food trucks in jeopardy
Yesterday Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson called to explain that the state has adopted a new fire code that food trucks and mobile or temporary cooking…
Poll: City voters favor cutting bottle club hours
In a InWeekly/Political Matrix poll of 538 likely voters in the city of Pensacola, we found that 40.1 percent supported closing the bottle clubs in…
McMahon named to Marine Fisheries Advisory
Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross has appointed three new advisors to NOAA’s Marine Fisheries Advisory Committee, bringing the group’s membership to the full complement of…
ST Engineering lands $1.3B contract
Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd (ST Engineering) today announced that its Aerospace and Electronics sectors have secured new contracts with a combined value of about $2.1…
Thomson named Chamber CEO
At their April board meeting, the Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors voted to name Todd Thomson President/CEO of the organization. Thomson replaces…
Buzz: Gulf Power parachutes
Inweekly has been told approximately 280 Gulf Power employees have received enhanced retirement packages. Employee, who are 50 years or older and have 10 years…
Radio news icon passes
Longtime Pensacola radio fixture John Teelin died recently while in hospice care. John spent many years at WCOA radio and later worked as part-time news…
Underhill tries end run on PEDC bill, fails
Escambia County Commissioner Doug Underhill last week tried to get the Florida House State Affairs Committee to not hear HB 1067, which restructures the Pensacola-Escambia…
Pensacola makes Final Four
Pensacola eked out a four-point victory over Delray, Fla. in the 2019 Strongest Town contest. More than 5,500 votes were cast in our second round…
‘Right price’ downtown parking
By Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola’s Downtown Improvement Board continued to refine its plans for downtown parking during a Tuesday night workshop in preparation for a…
Top 10 small cities for small business
Here is a goal for the Greater Pensacola Chamber: Get Pensacola on this list. ChamberofCommerce.org has published a study that uncovers the best small cities for…
CareerSource Escarosa lets down Escambia County
Last week, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced $1.75 million to help Floridians acquire the skills needed for in-demand occupations through new and expanded apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship…
