STAGES OF
DEVELOPMENT
A SURVEY OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN AND AROUND DOWNTOWN PENSACOLA
BY WILL ISERN | PHOTOS BY BARA’AH JARAISEH & GUY STEVENS
In just twelve short months, so much has changed in downtown Pensacola. For all the development the city has seen in the last decade, the year been among the most transformative of any time. Take almost any turn off Palafox and you’re likely to see lots being prepared for new construction, or a project already underway. New homes and businesses are springing up every week. The downtown core is simply booming. From people like Quint Studer and Bobby Switzer leading the charge with their mega-projects like Southtowne and One Palafox Place, to entrepreneurs like D.C. Reeves at Perfect Plain Brewing Co. or Evan and Harry Levin at the Vinyl Music Hall, players big and small are contributing to the city’s growth. When you actually stop to tally all of the projects that were completed in the last year, as well as those under construction or about to break to ground, the scale of development taking place in and around Pensacola downtown core is astonishing. We’ve done just that in the following pages and are once again amazed at the energy with which the city is being transformed.
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