On Feb. 25, 2005, the Pensacola City Council passed the Port Administration and Operations Policy. It states: Mixed-use development opportunities on appropriate parcels of land within the port, particularly on border parcels…
Tag: Port of Pensacola
Oops, Port was suppose to have a profit
BST Associates submitted to the Pensacola City Council a study of the Port of Pensacola in Sept. 2004. It considered mixed use, a cruise ship and maritime museum. According to BST, the…
Port net loss is $5.6 million over past five years
There is a lot of misinformation about the finances of the Port of Pensacola. Some will insist that the Port of Pensacola is not losing money. I checked the audited Comprehensive Annual…
What is the status of Port leases?
According to this Santa Rosa Chronicle article the Halcorp lease expired July 8, 2008!!!! Why didn’t the city council draft a Request for Proposal for the Halcorp site? If Halcorp came back…
2007 Council Goal for the Port of Pensacola
Per the City of Pensacola website: “Plan for alternative uses at the Port of Pensacola as industrial leases expire.” Read all the 2007 goals. They will make you laugh, cry or angry….
BTW: Halcorp wants lease amendment, too
Halcorp has requested a lease amendment that will provide for a one and one-half year guaranteed lease through June 30, 2010, renewing daily thereafter until such time as either party provides 365…
Are Port users buying council votes?
The Port of Pensacola Users Association has written $500 campaign checks each to Jack Nobles, Marty Donovan, Sam Hall and Mike DeSorbo. Halcorp contributed $1000 to Jewel Cannada Wynn: Sanford P. Brass,…
City Council may extend freezer lease
Looks like Pate Stevedore doesn’t want to take any chances on the election. It is pressing to extend its freezer lease with the City. Watch for Jack Nobles and Marty Donovan to…
Pointless Port
What is happening with the Port of Pensacola? There are leases expiring this summer and the city council has yet to agree on a request for proposal. Is it because this is…
Mobile Port hits milestone
The Mobile Press Register reports: Following the arrival of a pair of new, $7.5 million cranes from China in March, Mobile Container Terminal marked another major milestone last week as thousands of…
Port costs Pensacola $1.45 mil
According to the 2007 audit, The Port of Pensacola revenue was down 41 percent last year. The operation lost $1.45 million. The staff is projecting fiscal year 2008 estimated revenues of $2.6…
O’Brien: City needs another committee
PNJ columnist Mark O’Brien is pushing the idea of another citizens committee that will review City of Pensacola finances. So far city staff and the city council have been lukewarm on the…
City staff resists mixed-use at Port
City staff continues to resist adding anything other than industrial to the Port of Pensacola. The problem may be the staff fears that anything other than industrial could lead to the closure…
Not all ports struggle
Mobile Press Register reports: The Alabama state docks saw record cargo volume in 2007, driven primarily by a 50 percent increase in container cargo and record coal shipments, the Alabama State Port…
Panama City may get port tenant
Panama City has an Intermodal Distribution Center to go with its port. It’s an industrial park near Hwy 231 for companies who agree to use its port. The News Herald reports that…
Question of the day
When is a decision not a decision? When the “decision” is made by the Pensacola City Council. Case in point: The Pensacola City Council voted a couple years ago to bring mixed…
Port expands
The Herald Tribune reports that Port Manatee that is south of Tampa is preparing for the widening of the Panama Canal. The port is in the midst of an expansion, aided by…
Power of one bad decision
The overriding reason for Councilmen Jack Nobles and Marty Donovan to vote in favor of the Rinker/Cemex lease at the Port of Pensacola was that the City already had a lease that…
Third World Pensacola
Why is the environment such a low priority in Escambia County and Pensacola? We profess to love our waterways and call this place “paradise.” Yet we have more EPA Superfund sites than…
Meet proposed port tenant
InDaily has posted a YouTube video on Cemex, the Mexican cement manufacturing giant, who owns Rinker Materials. What do you do when an international conglomerate sets up shop in your backyard, pours…
