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Old Posted Oct 17, 2013, 8:09 AM
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Beck building design gets CMPA board's OK






Beck Property Co.’s proposed design of a $4 million-plus mixed-use building at the


Community Maritime Park was approved Wednesday by the Community Maritime Park Associates board.

Justin Beck, the company’s president, presented a design of the three-story building on the corner of Port Royal Way and Main Street. The rendering features a mix of traditional and contemporary influences featuring brick and cement-fiberboard panel facades.
A 55-year lease for the 26,715-square-foot building, to be named One51Main, was granted by the Pensacola City Council in June. At that time, it was calculated Beck would pay the city $46,222 in annual rent and estimated that his building would generate $76,252 in property taxes.
One51Main will be the park’s second major private development.
The building will house retail spaces on its first floor, Beck office space on the second floor and four waterfront luxury condominiums on the third floor. Three garages are also planned.
Beck said he has received two letters of intent for the retail spaces, which range in size from 600 to 1,400 square feet.
Beck said the next step is to get approval of the building’s design from the City of Pensacola Planning Board.
Beck said he wanted to break ground on the project before the end of the year.
“We’ve got a design and a project we’re ready to move forward with,” he said.
CMPA board member John Merting asked at Wednesday’s meeting if the building met all Community Maritime Park design guidelines.
“I don’t think we need any bad precedent set from allowing deviations,” he said.
But Beck’s head architect, Kelly Wieczorek of Bay Design, was quick to dispel Merting’s doubts. One51Main was designed to meet the guidelines, she said.
Beck’s development team includes Bay Design (architects), Williams-Brown Inc. (construction management), Rebol Battle & Associates (civil engineering), Homer Jolly Design (rendering and marketing) and Beck Property Co. (property management and leasing sales developer).

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Downtown Pensacola, Florida, Gains New Energy From Revitalization



PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — For decades, Pensacola's quiet downtown was overlooked by tourists lured instead to the sugary white sands of the nearby beaches. But a major push to revitalize the long-neglected business and office district is slowly bringing visitors back downtown.

Upscale eateries and wine bars have replaced the strip clubs and pool halls that once lined the city's main drag. Young sailors from nearby Pensacola Naval Air Station still frequent the area, but nowadays are often lured by the family friendly art and music scene rather than the bars. And a new minor-league baseball stadium draws thousands of fans to downtown's once-dilapidated waterfront.

Gallery nights attract up to 15,000 visitors each of the seven Fridays a year they are held. Weekly outdoor musical evenings in a downtown park draw up to 8,000 visitors each night .The baseball stadium averages about 6,000 fans each home game.

"In the last five years, I've never seen this much growth in Pensacola," said Nick Schuck, who owns a business giving Segway and bike tours of the downtown.

Schuck's business has nearly tripled in the one year he has been open as thousands flock downtown for the various events.


To read the full story go tohttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/14/downtown-pensacola-florida-_n_4097566.html

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Old Posted Oct 20, 2013, 3:37 AM
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The new building looks nice. There are some shady things about the way the park development has been handled, but at this point I just want to see some use of the land. Glad to see two buildings going in now.

Also, sweet article. The number of business increase is amazing. I've always thought that Pensacola, and especially downtown, had huge and untapped potential. I think its safe to say that it's finally being realized.
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Palafox Named a Top 10 U.S. Street

Designated area
Eight blocks of Palafox Street between Wright Street and Main Street.

Summary
Aligned with expansive sidewalks, two capacious plazas, a median, and buildings that juxtapose Spanish Colonial wrought iron and cast iron facades with the Chicago School's large, plate-glass windows, Palafox brings together period details with both colonial- and progressive-era architecture.

Prompting creation of a preservation plan that would "help write many of the heretofore unknown details of Pensacola's colorful history," as a city advisory committee wrote in 1966, was the discovery in the early 1960s of colonial-era foundations along Palafox and elsewhere in Pensacola. To help implement the preservation plan, a historic preservation board with an architectural review committee was formed in 1967.

The city also established the Pensacola Downtown Improvement Board in 1972 to support and improve economic activity for businesses located along the street. The board, composed of five members who own businesses on Palafox or live in Pensacola, has helped with beautifying the street and enhancing building property values. Also to help draw more customers and improve the downtown business activity, Palafox was converted to two-way traffic in 2009.

Wide sidewalks, colorful Crepe Myrtle trees, and balconies extending from building facades protect pedestrians from the hot Florida sun and provide a comfortable distance from motor vehicles in the right-of-way. Two public spaces anchor the street: the Spanish-designed Plaza Ferdinand, which is on Palafox between Government and Zaragoza Streets, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza. This plaza, located on Palafox where it intersects with Garden and Write Streets, hosts one of the country's most celebrated weekly farmers markets.

The story of Palafox Street doesn't stop here. The city's 2010 comprehensive plan calls for extending the vibrant and pedestrian-friendly ambiance of Palafox along the street's southernmost blocks as well. By redeveloping the vacant lots and parking areas there, the vibrancy of Palafox will extend to the city's recently revitalized waterfront.

Historic Character

Originally named George Street after King George III, Palafox retains original grid design laid out by British engineer Elias Durnford in 1764
Pensacola was capital of West Florida during periods of British, Spanish, and American occupation with Palafox Street serving as city's central business and cultural artery (1760s)
Spanish Surveyor General Vicente Sebastian Pintado renamed street Calle de Palafox after Jose Robelledo de Palafox, 1st Duke of Saragossa (1812)
Pintado modified Palafox British plan according to orders from the Council of Indies and Spanish colonial town planning concepts; set aside Plaza Ferdinand as public space (1812)
Palafox Street was Pensacola's main commercial hub after Civil War; city became one of the largest export centers of yellow pine and red snapper for the Gulf Coast (1880)
Eighty percent of the buildings along Palafox Street built during the Progressive era by optimistic businessmen wanting to erect edifices that stand the test of time (1890-1920)
Planning and Preservation Accomplishments

City discontinued street car service, removing tracks and installing green space in North Palafox's median between Garden and Wright Streets (1932)
Palafox Street extends through both Pensacola Historic District (added to National Register of Historic Places 1970) and the Palafox Historic Business District (added to National Register 1983)
Pensacola Community Redevelopment Agency created in 1980; charged with preserving and improving Palafox's historic architecture, maintaining landscaping and sidewalks
Crepe Myrtle trees along Palafox help Pensacola gain designation as a Tree City USA (1990)
City's 2010 comprehensive plan calls for stronger historic preservation measures; also focuses on Palafox's economic development and connection to waterfront
City and county join together in 2013 to place removable bollards at all entrances to the Palafox entertainment district
Significant Architecture

American National Bank (226 South Palafox, 1910) designed by architect J.E.R. Carpenter; the Sullivanesque skyscraper remained Pensacola's tallest building until 1974
U.S. Customs House and Post Office (223 South Palafox, 1887) is a renaissance revival structure connected to the Esdcambia County governmental complex
Saenger Theater ( 118 South Palafox, 1925) designed by New Orleans architect Emile Weil; $15 million renovation (2007-09) preserves its Spanish Baroque architecture
Masonic Temple (2 South Palafox, 1897) constructed for a hardware store; Romanesque Revival building retains its Masonic symbol on the roof facade
Andrew Jackson Monument (Plaza Ferdinand VII, 1935) designed by Eduardo Anievas; the bronze and granite bust signifies Jackson's brief tenure as Florida's first American governor
King Plaza features Dr. King bust sculpted by Atlanta artist Ayokunle Odeleye (1992)
Seven-story Blount Building (corner Palafox and West Garden streets, 1907) designed in the Chicago School style; built for local attorney William Alexander Blount
Events and Celebrations

New Year's Eve Pelican Drop occurs in Plaza Ferdinand and draws crowds of more than 50,000; a 14-foot-tall pelican statue descends a 100-foot platform at midnight
Annual Mardi Gras Parade attracts 6,000 participants, more than 200 floats
Investors to spend $1 million to convert vacant Palafox parcel into courtyard for food trucks
Downtown Improvement Board manages Palafox special events involving street closure, portable restrooms, additional police and EMTs, and event cleanup

http://www.planning.org/greatplaces/streets/2013/#FL


Also, there are now two cranes up downtown (albeit small ones) for two new buildings: the new bank on Palafox and Main, and the new Studer Group HQ on the Maritime Park.
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Studers to add 4th floor to park office building

Downtown developers Quint and Rishy Studer are adding a 20,000 square foot 4th floor to their $12 million-plus office building under construction at Community Maritime Park.

Studer spokesman Andrew Rothfeder said the fourth floor addition, which has gotten approval from the city’s Planning Board, will be leased to a health-related business.

The extra floor will add about three months to the build-out schedule, scheduled for completion in mid-to-late 2014.

To bad it's not another 3 floors but its a start.
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Pensacola reaches tentative deal with ST Aerospace

In a deal that would put Pensacola squarely on the aerospace map, Mayor Ashton Hayward announced late Tuesday that he has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with ST Aerospace, Mobile, Inc.

The non-binding agreement is the culmination of 18 months of intense behind-the-scenes negotiations aimed at luring the aerospace company to Pensacola International Airport.

Based in Singapore, ST Aerospace has a major operation in Mobile, Ala., and services large aircraft manufacturers such as Boeing.
http://www.pnj.com/article/20131218/...h-ST-Aerospace
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IHMC unveils expansion plans




The Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition will expand its downtown Pensacola research facility by adding a three-story, 30,000-square-foot addition, and expanding and renovating the existing building.

“We’re growing, and we need more room,” IHMC Director and CEO Ken Ford said Friday. “We’re really pleased to see the plans finally coming together. We love being in downtown Pensacola and couldn’t be happier about being part of its continued growth.”

The $8 million expansion will more than double IHMC’s existing space, allowing consolidation of research and administrative functions at the main campus at 40 S. Alcaniz Street in the Seville Historic District, and allow for future growth.


http://www.pnj.com/article/20131221/...C-headquarters


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Sweet news about the expansion. With some more infill like this, that area of town will be simply amazing. Hope the airport news is true!
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Saw that the PNJ will be moving to the building on the northeast corner of Garden and Palafox as the old building is demolished to make way for a housing development of some sort (Studer's doing). Should be a good development!
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