Comments on: Chamber Of Commerce Calls For Light Industrial Use For Part Of OLF-8

By: dave lamb

dave lamb — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:50:59 +0000

How many more years is the paper mill and the nylon plant going to operate. Now is the time to plan for job growth or the whole the whole area will become blighted

By: dave lamb

dave lamb — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 23:41:47 +0000

@ Klem Navy Federal purchased approximately 435 acres of the LBC. It used to be more than 600 acres. Florida Welcome Center and I 10 took some when I 10 was built

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:19:04 +0000

This is exactly what OLF 8 was swapped for. The push from the loud NIMBYs has thwarted the chance for game changing economic development industry for the citizens of the county.
It is a once in a lifetime chance for crucial development. An Amazon warehouse would be welcomed. As a start.
Don’t listen to the loudest voice in the room, old retired people who do t care about anyone but their own agenda.
People forget that what Barry ran on in 2012 when Escambia desperately needed jobs.

By: Klem

Klem — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:01:23 +0000

You see what NFCU did with their 100 acres? THAT is the type of development the city should be thinking about. And even their regular campus is nce. That is NOT what light industrial and warehouses bring.

By: dave lamb

dave lamb — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:53:52 +0000

This proposal [s more in line with what OLF8 was originally purchased for. When it was purchased, it was for jobs and aircraft factories to support Airbus. A lot of hop skipping to get it purchased from the Navy. It also caused the loss of a fantastic 4H camp for Navy Federal to build on. The punch line back then was Jobs, jobs, jobs.
It was the Master Plan when purchased.

By: Mr Bear

Mr Bear — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 11:24:08 +0000

This is a chance for the chamber to do something nice for the people who live here. Industry and developers get most anything they want while citizens only get an occasional scrap. We dont need to waste this opportunity by giving it to industry or developers. There is plenty of land available to them for that purpose and they should use it instead. Do something nice for the people who live here and improve our quality of life. Industry will do quite well on its own as will developers.

By: Theresa Blackwell

Theresa Blackwell — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 01:42:57 +0000

This is an odd push from the Chamber for something that is already in the master plan. I think I smell the diesel fumes and hear the click, clack of baskets crashing into the side of the tilt up concrete walls of an Amazon distribution center. We don’t need $16.50 per hour jobs, with 10 hrs on your feet and a high risk of injury.

By: Klem

Klem — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 18:19:26 +0000

Concur with Oversight. What the Chamber of Commerce wants has nothing to do with the quality of life for the Beulah area. You would think this should be a more local issue than “Greater” Pensacola. There will never be significant job creation from OLF-8. With the existing infrastructure there is nothing but congestion and declining property values for the Beulah area.

By: Oversight

Oversight — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 09:34:20 +0000

Doomsday letter by the Chamber. Look around at the hundreds of acres of land previously zoned agriculture and what it is today. Zoning means nothing to the board when it comes to big money development. So, no. OLF 8 isn’t the only or last location for this type of industry or business available in the county.