TRADERJON

Located in exciting downtown and have greenspace to walk your dog! Live in a unique internationally reknowned historic space with a private balcony (your future addition - your design) And if you want to be within a stone's throw from a marina pier, park, theatre, shopping, and the area's finest restaurants - here is the place! You are within steps of the Arts District ... and if you want your own private secure parking garage? NO PROBLEM! Welcome! Luxury living in the art of downtown Historic landmark - Trader Jon's. Downtown condomium for sale. A focal point in the renaissance of downtown Pensacola, this historic building offers a chic residence with urban style. Soaring ceilings, it features 4000 Sf with a commercial grade elevator, generous windows for abundant light and dramatic Historic landmark Trader Jon Building 4000+/- condo for sale: $1,250,000.The listing is currently in construction phase. The sellers are dedicated to completing the project with an utmost commitment to quality and detail, most of which is underway- you finish out the interior! Upon completion there is to be a private entrance gate with electric access to a rear patio area with covered parking, and private stairway. From the front entrance facing Palafox St., you and your guests will be greeted by fabulous double doors of the utmost quality with your private elevator. The perimeter, exterior walls will be finished in stucco and painted to compliment the commercial retail space below. A park including a large grassy lawn with bordering shrubs will be located on the south property (previously Sarahs building and parking), and will include a paved curb echoing the back patio in design and allowing for entrance from the west boundary of the property. Sellers will install separate power to the unit, and add two west-facing windows. Sellers will also remove the existing wood ceiling to expose structural reinforced beams, adding to ceiling height and overall stately appearance. Sellers are willing to allow, under terms of condo docs at new owners expense, completion of entry hall with balcony at second level, exterior windows, flooring, wall coverings, and the like, exterior balconies, either fronting Palafox St., back patio, or both. This property is truly one of a kind with views of historic downtown Pensacola and Pensacola Bay, and a historical charm that is unmatched. city views in every direction, Aperture makes a singular stylistic statement

TRADER JON's - Live in a historic landmark, Trader Jonsa world famous a former chandlery where once sails were made and rigged for tall-masted schooners. From the beginning, Trader captured the flavor of the city on the Gulf in northwest FloridaPensacola a city of romance, history, and the U.S. Navy
4000 +/- SF downtown condominium located in historic downtown .

Private entrance
Steel grid strength
Plumbing and power updated
$50,000 new high tech roof
The tongue and groove ceiling can be exposed to the rafters.
3 layers of masonry from the late 19th century.

Some of the past visitors to Trader Jons were Poets, Princes and Paupers:

John Wayne1956 for quite often while he was filming, On the Wings of Eagles; Maureen OHara; Prince Andrew; Ernest Hemmingway; John Glenn; Red Skeleton; Roger Staubach; Mel Fisher (who discovered Spanish Galleon of gold); Paul Bear Bryant, Astronauts, Thunderbirds; Blue Angels; John LehmanSecretary of the Navy; Presidents, Red Arrows (British Flight Demonstration; Curt & Trician WatsonNavys only brother and sister who are pilots; Italian Flight demonstration team; a family portrait of four generations of Craddocksfather, son, grandfather, great-grandfather (all of them Navy Pilots); Norwegian Flight team; Lt Brenda Robinson, the only black female military pilot. And the waltz went on..

Almost thirty years after the War Between the States, the Pensacola waterfront was a bustling, brawling seaport with 875 vessels filled with 6827 sailors. In addition, some 2800 stevedores and 3000 cutters worked on the docks. This was the mood and atmosphere of the times and place of the birth of the building now known as Sarahs and Trader Jons on South Palafox St. In 1893, L. C. Sarrah, Builder, advertised in the Daily News of Pensacola that there were elegant apartments for rent in the newly constructed Phenix Building (which was Sarahs). It was occupied by a Pensacola restaurateur and saloonkeeper, John Dunn and opened as the Dunns Hotel. Back in the late 1800s and early 1900s when tall-masted schooners docked in Palafox Pier, this historic building sat in the midst of a bustling red light district.

Even though murders were numerous and brawls were a daily occurrence on the waterfront, the masonry structure stood proudly as she still does today.

The Roaring Twenties continued to roar on south Palafox Street as Prohibition came and went. Then came World War II. Trader opened his bar in 1954 and almost immediately Navy personnel showed to ease the pain of training and drawn to Traders unique brand of hospitality. Over the years, the bar and Trader have been part of so many lives. During the Korean War his Navy Flight buddies, many he had know in Miami and Key West, would stop in for an evening.

The 100 year old edifice known today as Trader Jons has been through the hurricanes of 1906, 1916, 1926, 2004, and 2005.

Below the condo will be a leased commercial space. The rear of the building where you will have reserved parking. Covered parking can be discussed with the sellers. There will be an easement from the property south of the building. You can also have a balcony on the rear which possibly a stair to the roof for a gorgeous waterview. You could moor your boat at Palafox Pier which is just a stones throw away - across the street!

3 layers of masonry with new commercial grade windows, electrical, plumbing and structurally reinforce with steel grid strength. All open for customized finishing. Price is as is with some discussion.

For a virtual slide show of the property - click on the cartoon picture of Trader Jon done by Chip Spirson of Vital Signs!