Category: Escambia County
DPZ CoDesign playing BCC, PNJ
The Escambia Board of County Commissioners was led to believe that DPZ CoDesign worked for them in developing a master plan for Outlying Landing Field…
Beach Haven boogie
The Escambia Board of County Commissioners discussed at its Thursday, Feb. 4 meeting the bid tabulation for a $11.8 million project at Beach Haven. The…
Input on skatepark sought
Escambia County and the City of Pensacola continue to engage the public in transforming Hollice T. Williams Park into an innovative and iconic urban green…
Promoting CyberCoast
Networks of Florida, a regionally recognized Information Technology and Cybersecurity Managed Services Provider (MSP), recently announced its complete rebranding to NOF Technologies. The rebrand includes…
Breaking News: State commission approves name change for Wentworth museum
Florida Historical Commission approved changing the name of the T.T. Wentworth Museum to the Pensacola Museum of History at the University of West Florida.  The change…
The Great OLF-8 Debate
The future of Escambia County’s hottest property will be decided this year. The 500-plus acres will either be the site of high-paying jobs for the…
One point about PNJ 1/31 editorial
Yesterday, the daily newspaper’s editorial board went after four Escambia County commissioners–Jeff Bergosh, Lumon May, Robert Bender and Steven Barry–for not agreeing to pay Commissioner…
Poll: Voters want jobs at OLF-8
Escambia votes overwhelmingly want  high-paying jobs at Outlying Landing Filed (OLF-8), the 500-plus acre site next to Navy Federal’s campus in Beulah, according to recent…
Developer offers $16M to implement Village or Market plans for OLF-8
Hemmer Consulting LLC and 68 Ventures LLC made an offer to buy 400 acres of OLF-8 for $16 million, leaving only 80 acres for commerce…
Oops, one more Triumph fact overlooked by DPZ Codesign
The firm hired by the county commission to develop a master plan for OLF-8 has tried to downplay the importance of Triumph funds to its…
Busting DPZ Codesign myths
Yesterday, DPZ Codesign published its set of “facts” about its work for the Escambia County Commission on a master plan for OLF-8, a 500+ acre…
Is Gilley a ‘professional confidential informant’? UPDATE
FDLE spokesperson Gretl Plessinger  answered the question : ‘“Professional Confidential Informant’ is not a formal term. The informant was Keith Morris, the Escambia County Compliance…
Missing DPZ Codesign facts
DPZ Codesign, the firm hired by the Escambia Board of County Commissioners, has published its facts about the OLF-8 site for which is designing a…
County contractor lobbies for its proposed plan
In an unusual move, the master planning firm hired by the Escambia Board of County Commissioners has begun to lobby residents for its plans for…
FDLE releases report on eavesdropping of county offices
Inweekly received the investigative report on the  bugging of a conference room adjacent to Escambia County Administrator Janice Gilley’s office in the Ernie Lee Magaha…
Living the Dream Pensacola goes virtual today
Despite a raging pandemic, a difficult hurricane recovery, and simmering political unrest, the Living the Dream Pensacola committee announced this week that the decade-long tradition…
Buzz: DeSantis cuts vaccines for Escambia – update
Sources have told Inweekly that Gov. Ron DeSantis has cut the next week’s vaccine shipment for Escambia County from 8,000 to 800. Update – Monday,…
Grover’s Midweek Q&A: COVID, the bridge & the homeless
by Jeremy Morrison, Inweekly Pensacola Mayor Grover Robinson addressed a collection of items Wednesday during his Facebook Live Q&A session, among them the ongoing repairs…
West Cervantes work to begin
The Florida Department of Transportation will begin a $7 million construction project this month to improve pedestrian safety along a 2.2-mile section of West Cervantes…
What Sheriff Simmons said at swearing in ceremony
On Tuesday, Jan. 5, Judge Nick Geeker swore in Chips Simmons as the new sheriff of Escambia County in a small ceremony at the Escambia…
