Poll: Pensacola voters do not support conference center at Maritime Park

Last month, the Pensacola City Council voted 4-3 for a publicly funded conference center and parking garage, indoor entertainment complex and 80 housing units to…

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MCM-BAP backs up, will submit a third plan

At the Pensacola City Council workshop, Miami developer MCM-BAP said it will submit a revised proposal within the next three weeks. The new proposal, the…

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City Council to discuss terminating CBRE listing agreement for CMP

Pensacola City Councilman Charles Bare will be placing on the agenda for the April council meeting a motion to terminating CBRE’s listing agreement for the…

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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…

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Weekend Buzz: Mud, Dollar General, Grover and Stallion

Pensacola’s Mud Island Eighteen months after the Vince Whibbs, Sr. Community Maritime Park opened, the city has a problem with the retention pond at the…

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Buzz: Push for Catholic vs. West Florida High game to be played at maritime stadium

West Florida and Catholic will face off this Friday to see which team advances in the Florida 5A football playoffs. The Catholic Crusaders won their…

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Blue Wahoos attorney responds to Kerrigan epistle

Scott Remington, attorney for the Pensacola Blue Wahoos, has responded to attorney Bob Kerrigan’s letter attacking the team and its owners over their agreements with…

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Wahoos final report to CMPA tells how much team paid in 2012

Blue Wahoos have released their annual report for the Community Maritime Park Associates Board of Trustees. The awards that the team and its management have…

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Buzz: Studers plan Manna fundraiser

It hasn’t been announced yet but we are hearing that Rishy and Quint Studer have set up a benefit for Manna Food Pantries, which was…

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Wahoos View

The views bouncing around in the stadium at Maritime Park are brilliant. Sunlit diamonds swim in the bay and green grass covers the infield. “They’ve…

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MPDP Out of Compliance with EBO

Promises Kept or Broken – Part IV The problems with the Maritime Park’s EBO Agreement program and the failure to live up to the Covenant…

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MPDP battles EBO complaint

Promises: kept or broken? — Part 2 The man who drafted the Equal Business Opportunity agreement between Community Maritime Park Associates and Maritime Park Development…

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