Jamie Page attended yesterday’s press conference held by the Donovan/Nobles gang where they essentially cried that they shouldn’t be penalized for not knowing how to tell time. His tale of their journey…
Tag: COMMUNITY MARITIME PARK
Maritime Film tells story of the park
With the help of Barnes West, we produced a film on the Vince Whibbs, Sr. Community Maritime Park—how it started, who worked on it, why it’s named for Vince Whibbs, Sr., etc….
What Charlie Fairchild said about Maritime Park in 2005
The year was 2005. Pensacola had finished a series of town hall meetings on a proposed community maritime park. Charlie Fairchild, C.C. Elebash and Marty Donovan were working behind the scenes to…
If Marty and Jack didn’t like the stadium…
The right to petition a Pensacola City Council decision is not one that should be taken lightly. If the citizens have voiced their concerns in the hearings involving a decisions, participated in…
Donovan/Nobles PAC is formed
It’s Park Yes Stadium No. And here is the website: http://www.parkyesstadiumno.com/ City Attorney Rusty Wells, according to PNJ reporter Jamie Page, has determined the former city councilmen Marty Donovan and Jack Nobles…
CMP 101
The blog has grown beyond Northwest Florida. We are approaching a million page views a month. Some of the new readers have been drawn here because of The Daily Beast and my…
PYP affirms support of maritime stadium
Press Release: Pensacola Young Professionals today affirmed a decision made in 2006 to support the Community Maritime Park. Kristine Karsten, President of Pensacola Young Professionals, met with vice-presidents, team chairs and members…
Charles Fairchild, secret partner with Donovan & Nobles
I acquired these emails from Save Our City & No Boss Mayor co-founder Charlie Fairchild to an out-of-town web designer. Looks like Charlie, Marty and Jack have been scheming hard while the…
CMP: Stop the pettiness and bullying
Pensacola had a head start over the rest of North America 451 years ago. When DeLuna founded Pensacola, there was no New York, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans or Orlando…just Pensacola. When the…
Buzz: Is Donovan lying about signatures?
He’s baaaaaaaaack. Former City Councilman Marty Donovan is trying yet another petition drive against the Community Maritime Park. This time he’s brought with Jack Nobles, Byron Kessler, Todd Synder, Dorothy Rowe, Jackie…
Stadium adds income to CMP
All profits from the Pensacola Pelicans will go to the operations and maintenance of the Community Maritime Park. There is no such agreement anywhere in minor or major league baseball. The closest…
Judge Lacey Collier speaks out on Davison
The daily newspaper has an in-depth interview with Judge Lacey Collier on his three-year tenure as the chairman of the Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees. Judge Collier doesn’t mince words—not…
Mayor Wiggins wants plan for CMP to be public works project
Just got off the phone with Pensacola Mayor Mike Wiggins. He has sent a letter to City Manager Al Coby requesting that the city manager put together a plan for the City…
MPDP responds
Maritime Park Development Partners, Inc. states in a letter to Ed Spears, executive director for Community Maritime Park, that the financial statements of MPDP, Rick Rodriguez, MAGI Realty Inc. and Brass Real…
Disbursements to MPDP
The Community Maritime Park Associates has disbursed to the master developer, Maritime Park Development Partners, $303,273.10 of their development fee (budget $1,386,077). The checks cover the $35,000 advance due when the contract…
Buzz: MPDP may be dropped as general contractor
There is persistent buzz that a motion will be made at today’s special meeting of the Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees to drop Maritime Park Development Partners as the general…
Latest on Community Maritime Park
Jeff Galt, president of Maritime Park Development Partners, released the following pdfs over the weekend. They show the latest budget for the park – both summary (Summary – MPDP Project Cost Estimate…
UWF drops out of Maritime Park…for now
TO: Mayor and City Council FROM:Alvin G. Coby DATE: 3/12/10 SUBJECT:Alternate Option for the UWF Maritime Museum The University of West Florida (UWF) and Capital Trust Agency (CTA) has notified the City…
Who will be general contractor of CMP?
CMPA chair Judge Lacey Collier has sent the following memo to Maritime Park Development Partners: MEMORANDUM To: Jeff Galt, President, Maritime Park Development Partners, LLC From: Lacey Collier, Chairman, Community Maritime Park…
UWF will have its offer before CMPA
The University of West Florida offer appears to be very similar to one being discussed by the master developer and university during the holidays. The master developer had already offered to reduce…
