The Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees approved yesterday an lease agreement for a new master developer who promises to investment $65 million into the waterfront park across from Pensacola City…
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Studers drop out of CMPA RFP presentations
Yesterday afternoon, the Studers’ attorney, Scott Remington, sent a letter to the CMPA executive director, Ed Spears, and the board’s attorney, Lisa Minshew, withdrawing their response to the CMPA Request for Proposals…
CMPA rejects childcare facility at the park
The Community Maritime Park Associates Board rejected yesterday a proposal from Quint Studer for two parcels at the maritime park. Last month, Studer Community Investments responded to a Request for Proposals for…
Wahoos Take A Swing at CMPA
The Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees passed on July 16 a motion on that the use fees paid by the Blue Wahoos, Pensacola’s Double A minor league baseball team were…
UWF could pay $5000 per football game for use of Maritime Park
The CMPA will hold a special executive meeting next Friday, August 8 at 9 a.m. to discuss a proposed park rental agreement with the University of West Florida for its home football…
CMPA wins lawsuit against former developer, awarded $1.6 million
CMPA has prevailed in the lawsuit against MPDP. Defendant Maritime Park Development Partners, LLC, is ordered to disgorge to Plaintiff Community Maritime Park Associates, Inc., the total sum of $1,624,066.57.36 Read Order…
Outtakes #4: Sucker USA
Despite concerns about what might eventually be developed on the site, the Emerald Coast Utilities Authority voted this afternoon to take the next step toward selling its 19-acres of prime downtown…
Viewpoint: The Real Truth About Communty Maritime Park
by Mark Taylor, CMPA Board member The dust has settled on the budget year 2013 (October 1, 2012 – Sept 30, 2013) and the results are phenomenal for the most hotly debated…
City and CMPA want to renegotiate with Wahoos
Getting the Blue Wahoos to renegotiate its use agreement for the Maritime Park stadium appears to be a top priority for both Mayor Ashton Hayward and the Community Maritime Park Associates Board…
CMPA meeting: Studers announce 4th floor, Beck shows design and why is liner floating
Representatives for Quint and Rishy Studer announced today that they will be adding a fourth floor to their Maritime Park office building and that they already have a signed tenant for the…
Former city administrator applies for CMPA board opening
Former City Administrator Bill Reynolds has sent an email to the Pensacola City Council requesting to be appointed to the Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees. “I have a 30 year…
Whatever happened to CMP Children’s Playground…apparently nothing
In April, attorney Eric Stevenson told the Community Maritime Park Associates board that he represented an anonymous donor who pledged $25,000 to the CMPA board to construct a children’s playground. He challenged…
CMPA Looks at Bylaws
A number of motions were thrown onto the table this afternoon during the Community Maritime Park Associates’ Bylaws Committee special meeting. Members shied away from the bigger-deal changes, but did embrace an…
Maritime Park mismanaged, not by CMPA, but by City
The daily newspaper, Mayor Ashton Hayward and City Administrator Bill Reynolds want the public to believe the financial woes of the Maritime Park are solely the fault of the Community Maritime Park…
Approving Beck and Eating B.S.
The Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees voted today to forward a proposed lease agreement with Justin and Greg Beck for the park’s parcel one on to the Pensacola City Council….
Parcel One and the Taxman
While members of the Community Maritime Park Associate’s Audit and Operations Committee forwarded a proposed lease with Beck Property Company to the main board, they did suggest making some changes. Primarily, they…
Beck’s CMP Negotiation Tomorrow
Parcel one will be on the table tomorrow morning during a Community Maritime Park Associates negotiation meeting. The meeting will consist of representatives from the city and the CMPA sitting down with…
Council’s CMPA Divide
By Jeremy Morrison… Pensacola City Attorney Jim Messer seemed unclear on exactly what City Councilman Brian Spencer was wanting of him during last night’s Committee of the Whole meeting. “They’re are certain…
Possible Playground
Earlier this month, an anonymous donor threw some money on the table in hopes of sparking some generosity to fund a playground at the Community Maritime Park. During the April 17 meeting…
Gunther says city and state ethics codes don’t apply to CMPA
Fred Gunther visited the Independent News and said that he believes that he did nothing wrong when he presented a competitive lease proposal for Parcel 1 at the Maritime Park. He said…
