Comments on: Commission Pledges $8 Million To Help Lure ST Aerospace To Pensacola

By: JimD

JimD — Sun, 09 Mar 2014 16:54:11 +0000

Everyone is forgetting the most important question concerning elected officials in Pensacola….How does this effect the beach.

Nothing else in the county matters, especially anything north of 9 Mile Rd.

Isn’t that the philosophy of the County and City of Pensacola elected representation?

By: molino jim

molino jim — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 02:30:54 +0000

I find it odd that ST’s home office for this area is Mobile. We dump a lot of money into a project and all they have to say is –”sorry this isn’t working out the way we hoped” and walk away. The Mobile complex has longer run ways and the labor force that the mayor and 4 members of the BCC hope will come to pass are the retired air force personal in the Ft. walton area. I guess they never looked at what is to the west of Mobile for a labor force. Some of the movers and shakers are the same ones who were involved in the 4-H property deal– I guess that should tell everyone how this may play out. Mobile got hooked for a dock and then the ships pulled out and now Mobile has a high debt and a dock no one will use. I can only hope we will not be in the same fix. Maybe it’s like UWF buying a country club and fielding a football team, but have a cut in state money due to poor student performance.

By: jeeperman

jeeperman — Sat, 08 Mar 2014 01:24:36 +0000

Jeff, Jeff, Jeff……………
“The reasons this area is not viewed as positively as others around us are many and varied, but many of them can be laid directly at the feet of our elected representatives, past and present”
Key word here is “elected”. over and over again by us the voting citizens of Pensacola and Escambia.
We seem to have extremely short memories here (maybe it is the ECUA water?).
And we are famous for ignoring what OUR elected officials and we put them back in place to do more damage.
Time and again.
We the voter are to blame for whatever “reputaion” we have.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 18:41:08 +0000

AW:

My initial comment was prefaced with “…this might be a great deal…”; however, the remainder of my post is valid.

The City of Pensacola does NOT represent this County taxpayer. It is part of the County, as is the airport. The airport should have issued bonds, the City should have committed real funding, not empty promises.

The reasons this area is not viewed as positively as others around us are many and varied, but many of them can be laid directly at the feet of our elected representatives, past and present.

The Mayor only seems to care about traveling on taxpayer dollars and having a good photo op, and we have our share of lemons on the County Commission. I am proud to say that Steven Barry is representing my interests rather than those whose palms are being greased with the continuing good ole boy shenanigans.

I do hope this venture succeeds and helps pull this region out of the 19th century mindset we’ve been laboring under for far too long–but kudos to anyone willing to cast an objective eye on pipe dreams and backroom backscratching.

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 17:57:25 +0000

BT….. no infrastructure, this is a bad deal for this many jobs and we’re the only ones with skin in the game . Sure hope this works out. It’s too bad Mr. Barry is the only one not looking at this thing through Rose colored glasses.

By: Robert S.

Robert S. — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:29:19 +0000

It always bothers me when the County goes in with the City on most anything.
The City shakes off the special projects into things like Maritime Park, which isn’t anything but a baseball stadium, and the residents end up paying for it.
Hopefully, there will be many more than 300 jobs.
Strange too how some projects seem to include the construction crews in their “number of jobs created” formula when those leave once their work is done.
Prepare to hear those who built or bought homes near the airport complain about the noise and activity.

By: ABC

ABC — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:31:15 +0000

Good move Mr. Barry, don’t want our funds to be used for fruitless endeavor, like the ?Industrial park? north on Highway 29, real good investment, has three ? occupants after all t hese years, what a waste of our money.

By: AW

AW — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 15:20:23 +0000

The city of Pensacola represents the entire Escambia/Santa Rosa metropolitan area. Our reputation compared to other gulf coast communities is not very good. It is easy to see why. There is not one positive comment on this site. You have to start somewhere, and I believe the ST project is a plus for future development. Business create business, that is why new car dealerships, pawn shops, retail stores, etc. cluster together. The maintenance jobs are not based on scheduled flights in and out of the airport, (the Pensacola Air Port is the busiest between New Orleans and Jacksonville). With a positive attitude and a good work force it will possibly create more jobs, and that is good, whether the employees are from Escambia, Santa Rosa or other surrounding areas, it will still help to develop a vibrate economy.

By: BT

BT — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:18:53 +0000

I’m assuming that between the city and the county, that $8 million will buy something besides 300 jobs. Is there an infrastructure investment that reverts back to the county when ST pulls out?

If so, there’s your collateral. If not, it’s a lot of money to buy jobs.

By: randy

randy — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 14:03:16 +0000

good try barry