At last night’s Pensacola City Council meeting, Councilwoman Maren DeWeese made a motion to ban waste transfer station inside the downtown CRA district. Mayor Mike Wiggins refused to hear it and instead…
Tag: CRA
Buzz: Moratorium tied to ECUA
The Pensacola City Council will consider today a ban of industrial land uses inside the CRA. What I’m hearing is that this has to do with ECUA’s possible uses for the Main…
CRA 2010 plan: Gateways, Round-a-bouts, Road Diets
The CRA 2010 plan tackles transportation in downtown Pensacola: EAST GATEWAY The East Gateway Improvement Project is envisioned to call attention to downtown for both area residents and beach visitors. Currently, the…
CRA 2010 plan connects with waterfront and parks
PENSACOLA BAYWALK The CRA 2010 Plan includes a continuous Baywalk where pedestrians and cyclists can access, transgress and enjoy Pensacola Bay from the Pensacola Area Welcome Center to Bruce Beach Series of…
CRA population trends
Consultant, Looney, Ricks & Kiss, assessed population trends as part of their work on the CRA 2010 plan, which will be presented to the Pensacola City Council on Thursday, Jan. 14. EDUCATION…
Fight to keep downtown Post Office
Yesterday, American Postal Workers Union members stood outside the Downtown U.S. Postal Service Office on Palafox Place with a petition board to save the 30-plus-year-old Pensacola branch. The group handed out pamphlets…
Should City borrow money for interest?
The Pensacola City Council will decide this week whether its bond issue for the Community Maritime Park should include $4.9 million to pay interest on the bond while the park is constructed….
Downtown CRA values are down, too
Downtown CRA valuations are down 4.6 percent. Property Appraiser Chris Jones explained that the DIB decline is greater because it includes tangible property. CRA only involves land and buildings.
Hawkshaw East dies
The Pensacola City Council has been notified that the developers of Hawkshaw East will not close on their purchase of the city property located adjacent Gulf Power’s headquarters on Bayfront Parkway. The…
Council movement on CMP
I am hearing that Councilmen Mike DeSorbo and Jewel Cannada-Wynn are really pushing for the city staff to come up with a plan for alternative financing for the Community Maritime Park. This…
Moby misses the mark
PNJ columnist Mark “Moby” O’Brien in his column today (Fire fee fallout: Property tax cut would hurt waterfront plans) misses the mark. I’m not sure why O’Brien has taken the position that…
Save Our City favor
Save Our City may have a done the Community Maritime Park a big favor by forcing a referendum on the park proposal last year. A Thursday ruling by the Florida Supreme Court…
Reality check needed
The daily newspaper’s article on the impact of property tax reforms on the Community Maritime Park- ominously titled “Park money at risk” – has resurrected the doom and gloom naysayers. The article…
CRA does pay its expenses
During the Community Maritime Park debate, Stop Our City supporters argued that the rest of the city had to pay for services in the CRA district. Today the Pensacola City Council/CRA Board…
Aragon East in the Raw
Here are the raw scores on the Aragon East proposals: Townsend Downtown Pensacola Hotel 47 Esplanade 64 Hawkshaw Eastside 85 Technology Bay 78 Technology Bay at Hawkshaw 90 Wiggins Downtown Pensacola Hotel…