Redevelopment and economic development more often begin in downtowns.

North of Molino, there is no central downtown core. Including in Century.

The mention of mixed use developments conjures up a well known proverb about successful development:

Location, Location, Location.

The flaw in the entire concept is that this study should have been done for all of the unincorporated areas north of Molino AND the municipality of Century. Focusing solely on Century ignores the broader and wider range of problems across the northern sector of Escambia County. Low paying jobs, low job opportunities, illiteracy, poor internet connectivity, low educational and high tech skill attainment levels, lack of tourism, housing dilapidated, drug abuse, outsider suspicion, nearly politically and religiously homogeneous, expensive to commute to job centers, limited food sources, limited medical services, confinement by another state, at great distance from the economic engine of downstate Florida, no interstate highway traversing area, no major junction between two or more major highways, lack of investment capital and financial skills and savvy. There are certainly positives (good community water systems, major four lane highway, located in same county with larger regional urban service center in Pensacola, two railways, significant timber and agricultural resources, abundant fresh groundwater supply, extensive wetland preservation areas.

This report should look at all of these factors in a comprehensive manner.