The Mayor’s Urban Redevelopment Advisory Committee has been at work since February. Today it approved its final report, a document chock-full of recommendations concerning downtown Pensacola. “People are going to criticize this…
Tag: economic development
Commissioners Consider Cap Increase
The Escambia County Commission today will consider increasing its caps on electric and natural gas franchise fees. If this morning’s work session was any indication, the commission may not have the appetite….
Spencer Releases Council Goals
Yesterday, Pensacola City Council candidate Brian Spencer released a list of goals for Dist. 6. Spencer said in a press release “the plan came about from weeks of knocking on doors, visiting…
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…
Grover replies to PB master plan viewpoint
Mr. Rotenberry, Thank you for your email and concerns. Many of your points are valid but some are the same political stereotyping that gets us nowhere. I write to you as a…
City Council not serious about jobs
We hear it everywhere: The number one priority for this community is jobs. Nearly every city council member will tell you that. However, the City has drastically reduced over the past three…
Cutting funds for non-profits
The Pensacola City Council is faced with an estimated $1.8 million deficit in the fiscal year 2010-11 budget. Instead of looking at how it may save dollars by consolidating services with the…
Valentino backtracks…too little, too late?
Escambia Commissioner Gene Valentino has a problem. He can’t get his stories straight, according to the PNJ. We know that he met with Cody Rawson of Roads, Inc in November 2009 in…
Arts Council of Northwest Florida Official Statement
Received this evening: January 2, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Arts Council of Northwest Florida Mission Our mission is to create a premiere arts and culture community in Escambia County to enrich the…
City is already in Economic Development business
Both Charlie Fairchild and Jerry Maygarden have said the City of Pensacola government shouldn’t be in the economic development business. Well, it already is. The City of Pensacola owns two of the…
Rebuttal to Maygarden viewpoint
In today’s daily paper, former Pensacola Mayor Jerry Maygarden makes that point that economic development is not the city government’s job. While I agree with Maygarden that the primary role of municipal…
Nodine won’t run for Mobile mayor
Mobile County Commissioner Steve Nodine has apparently decided not to run for mayor of Mobile against incumbent Sam Jones (Read). Nodine tried to use crime as the catalyst for his campaign trial…