City of Pensacola Florida

Technology Park is being developed on a 9.2-acre tract of public land located between the Pensacola Civic Center and the Aragon neighborhood. Initially proposed by the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, the completed park is expected to host between 300,000-500,000 square feet of office space.

Florida Blanca Street and a service road abutting the Aragon neighborhood — is owned by the City of Pensacola (1.7 acres) and Escambia County (7.5 acres) and has been used for overflow parking during Civic Center events.

Pensacola-Escambia Development Commission will be in charge of developing and marketing the park when the infrastructure improvements are completed is a multi-use development in Pensacola, Florida, under development as of 2009. The mixed use stadium is proposed to hold 3,500 people, and be used for a number of events year-round, including baseball, soccer, football, festivals, graduations and similar events. The multi-use stadium was originally designed to be the home field of the Pensacola Pelicans. Instead, it will host the Cincinnati Reds' double-A affiliate - currently called the Carolina Mudcats. It is expected to open in 2011 and will replace Pelican Park. The Park will also have retail and office space, an outdoor amphitheater, as well as the UWF Maritime Museum and public park space

Admiral Mason Pond

The city is building a stormwater retention pond which is going to be a feature of downtown. The pond will be located at Admiral Mason Park, at the corner of 9th Av and Romana, adjacent to Veteran's Park. It is going to be an attraction, rather than something behind chain link fences. The perimeter of the pond will be quite long, about a third of a mile--a great exercise loop for the walkers and runners out there as well as a nice place for a quiet stroll. The pond will have fountains spraying in it, so it will likely be visible from Bayfront as you approach the city. This pond will provide stormwater retention for the tech park. In addition, it will be able to accommodate further development on other undeveloped parcels in the surrounding area, increasing the potential for other economic development downtown.

So, in a sense, the city is providing city property for economic development. But the citizens are not losing any property but rather are gaining a new type of park, a new kind of attraction.

This entire project, the tech park and the pond, are an intriguing collaboration among many partners--the city, the county, the chamber, even the federal government--which is going to provide economic growth, a new park feature, increase density in our urban core, and even improve the looks of our community