According to and e-mail from City Attorney Rusty Wells, $71,000 was spent on attorney fees in a fight with the PNS Hotel Group over a 2008 approved land deal. The fee does…
Tag: Pensacola Airport
Damning report on hotel lease
As we and others believed, the Airport lease with Sandspur Development was highly flawed. The audit of the Airport Hotel lease agreement with Sandspur Development has been released by staff. The audit…
Suit filed over airport hotel lease
Today, PNS Hotel Group, Ltd. filed suit against the City of Pensacola concerning the recent lease of airport property given to Sandspur Development. The partners in PNS Hotel Group, Ltd. are Darryl…
Tale of public records request from airport
From: Rick Outzen [mailto:rick@inweekly.net] Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 9:41 AM To: Frank Miller; Al Coby Cc: Sean Boone Subject: Public information request Mr. Miller and Mr. Coby: I am writing to…
Tale of Airport Appraisals
as told by emails: The day before the Pensacola City Council approves the Exclusivity Agreement with Innisfree Development (Dec. 12, 2007), Dan Flynn, Manager of Properties and Development at the airport, sends…
How the exclusivity agreement came about
Spent three hours today reviewing internal staff emails and other correspondence regarding the Airport Ground Lease with Sandspur Development. It cost the Independent News over $200 for the privilege of seeing the…
Moby misses point on airport hotel lease
PNJ columnist Mark Obrien missed what I think is the real point about the airport hotel lease approved by the Pensacola City Council. The issue is not a “Clash of the Hotel…
Nobles: I think we’ve dealt fairly with everyone
Jack, the Pensacola City Council dealt more than fairly with Julian MacQueen, Al Coby, Frank Miller (see last post)…everyone but the citizens. The citizens deserve to know what really happened, how it…
Council approves airport deal anyway
By IN Reporter Sean Boone Airport deal lives after city hiccup After a week long fiasco described by Councilwoman Jewel Cannada-Wynn as “The clash of the hotel titans,” Sandspur Development was ultimately…
Please table airport deal
When the Escambia County Commission felt the park deal wasn’t done properly last September, it voted it down and had staff rebid it. The commission still bought the property, but the public…
Staff has not come clean on airport appraisals
There aren’t three full appraisals on the airport hotel property. There are two – by Charles Sherrill Jr. and Asmar Appraisal Co. – and one review of them by Brantley & Associates….
Anatomy of a city problem
The other appraisals for the airport hotel property came to light after attorney Bob Kerrigan made a request this morning of Airport Director Frank Miller of any and all appraisals for the…
Oops, there is a higher appraisal for airport property
We received a tip that city staff has “discovered” an appraisal of the airport property on which Sandspur Development wants to build a hotel. It was for $7 million, not the $6…
Enterprise Committee approves airport hotel deal
By IN reporter Sean Boone After nearly two hours of discussion over the potential lease agreement between the airport and Sandspur Development on Monday, the City Council Enterprise Committee ultimately decided to…