Comments on: ECUA Sells Main Street Property For $5.2 Million, Elects Officers

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 05:28:34 +0000

Jim,guess we will never know if the money was there.lock it up for six months,not bad seeing they sold it twice that time.another look in a years time.soccer fields? Not likely.

By: G.Locust

G.Locust — Sun, 23 Nov 2014 02:42:43 +0000

It would be nice if Florida would wise up and pass a gaming license for the panhandle as vacationers take a two hour ride over to Biloxi and take with them millions of dollars for MS. This is a perfect location to do what Biloxi is doing downtown. Melding baseball and casinos in a great entertainment draw. All the criticism of the Greyhound poker room and it has been a great addition to the area. Good people having fun. It is time to legalize some casinos in Florida and certainly one in downtown which would bring the vacationers to downtown Pensacola instead of Biloxi would be a good start. Mr. Studer has done a great job for Pensacola.

By: molino jim

molino jim — Sat, 22 Nov 2014 02:19:39 +0000

@ Alex-You may want to look back on the story about the 7 million dollar offer. The person making the offer wanted to lock up the property for six months and could have then said sorry about that and walked away. When ECUA wanted him to put up some front money he could not come up with it. He did go out and get arrested for DUI (I wonder if he showed up in court). He had an outstanding failure to appear for DUI from south Florida also. There were a few comments he was the front man for some BIG Texas money, they never showed up—I guess the fellow here was just so much smoke. The board acted properly then and has acted properly now. Many thanks to the board.

By: Bob C.

Bob C. — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 22:56:40 +0000

A Big THANK YOU to the Community Conscious Studer family.

Finally, some use for the poop plant property than growing weeds.

Since the Studer building at the Studer Ball Park has been occupied the parking in the public paved area has been severely restricted. Using the area for parking is highly commendable. A permeable paving surface over a properly prepared subsurface will help prevent runoff and help control flooding in the area.

You are right, without the Studer Influence the downtown area of Pensacola would be like a ghost town from an old western movie.

Rishy and Quint Studer…Thank You for your investment in Pensacola.

By: Just saying

Just saying — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 18:01:55 +0000

If we need somthing other than resturants you should have bought the property yourself and done with it as you pleased. I dont see where the Studer’s have done nothing but good for Pensacola area.

By: BT

BT — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 17:50:33 +0000

I’m wondering what downtown Pensacola would be like without the Studers. Probably a bunch of dilapidated, vacant buildings.

There was a lot of mistrust initially, and still is with some. But it’s like you said…nobody else is developing the area.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:21:45 +0000

And to think they turned down 7 plus million from an OUTSIDER a year ago

By: dman

dman — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:07:05 +0000

If NFCU has it’s way, so long as one speaks English and is breathing…Pensacolians will have jobs. I have to appreciate them for that much. Concerning “Studerville”…if the guy is making the place better, who cares? Let him buy it up. Better a local businessman than some foreign investor who cares little about the surrounding area. Just my 2¢.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 16:05:27 +0000

I remember all too well the 70s, when downtown was a ratty looking dead zone. There were strip clubs up and down Palafox, hookers patrolled the sidewalks outside the San Carlos, and businesses couldn’t evacuate fast enough. It was just a sad looking place to be. Today, things are incomparably different and nicer. Mr. and Mrs. Studer have indeed invested a great deal of capital in the city, and we are the beneficiaries of that investment. Whether you go to the baseball field or not, it is clearly a huge improvement over what it was. Oklahoma City had the same renaissance in their downtown area, now known as “Bricktown”, I believe, and it also started with a minor league baseball field. I’m sure the suggestion for putting the jail there wasn’t serious, but could you imagine what a blight that would be? Maybe people feel that one person buying so much property is a bad idea, but where else is the capital for improvement and redevelopment coming from? The Texas developer backed away. I would bet that as downtown continues to improve, we will see more investment coming from more sources. I think the Studers have recognized the potential there and are making it a reality. They may very well make a lot of money on it before it’s over, but as we conservatives believe, the private sector should operate, right?

By: jeeperman

jeeperman — Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:56:39 +0000

Mr. Studer is a smart businessman.
I am positive the initial use mentioned in the article is merely something to occupy the space until the economy improves.
Which is a whole lot better then the multitude of abandoned neglected school properties, commercial buildings and overgrow vacant expanses plaguing Pensacola currently.