Jobs, jobs and jobs.
This is necessarily the reaction of Escambia County commissioners to the suggestion that the county devote a significant portion of OLF-8’s assets in Beulah to new residential housing.
The county last year acquired Outlying Field 8, a former 640-acre educational airfield on Nine Mile Road, a land change with the U.S. Navy.But it’s not the first time The county invested approximately $17.5 million in asset acquisition in the hope of creating at least 1,000 new jobs for citizens with an annual salary of around $60,000.
Initial discussions in the county focused on turning the land into a giant advertising park, however, after the following discussions with network members and navy neighbor Federal Credit Union, commissioners agreed to call an outdoor representative DPZ CoDesign for the most productive and productive.land use.
However, the initial findings of the DPZ marketing study, which advised that the OLF-8 component be reserved for 1,900 residential housing sets and 182,500 square feet of retail, provoked a lukewarm reaction from commissioners at an assembly on Thursday.
“That’s not why they gave us these assets,” said District 1 commissioner Jeff Bergosh, who represents the allocation area.”We were given these assets to do jobs from $50,000 to $60,000 a year – clean, high-tech production – for every county. Steven (Barry).Not just to be a playground for the other people of Beulah.”
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The market research and monetary research was designed to provide commissioners with a fundamental understanding of market forces in paints in the region: the cost and demand for things like homes, offices, outlets, and hotel rooms. productive suitable for mixed use progression with administrative jobs in health, finance and cybersecurity; Retail outlets, such as restaurants and specialty grocery stores; and a variety of housing features for other people with other incomes.
According to DPZ, Beulah is already booming with new growth, with the construction of up to 3,000 new homes.Bergosh said citizens feared that an influx of new transplants could simply obstruct already congested roads and erase the idyllic life of the country that brought others to Beulah in the first place.
“It’s not a city, it’s not a city center,” Bergosh said.”This isn’t downtown Miami.This isn’t downtown Pensacola.It is a rural and bucolic network that has soared with growth, and (residents) need it under control and need it to grow intelligently.They don’t care if they don’t, they get the most value.They need to stay a remnant of what this position in the afterlife and I agree with them.”
However, the strategy of DPZ and its partners is that on-site housing creation would solve that it would exacerbate congestion problems.
Its concept is that having homes, restaurants and grocery stores within walking distance would diminish people’s desire to cross the car.They also found that compact and walkable communities are a necessity across the country and that such communities are attracting more business.more task seekers and a higher return on investment.
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Peter Bazelli, who helped expand the marketing studio with his team at Weitzman Associates, said the advantages of mixed-use technique is that “there are department stores within walking distance, places to eat.”, and that’s an attractive place for your staff compared to a classic business park or a shopping park.”
The studies advised the creation of a 100-acre “innovation campus” that would create approximately 2,000 jobs, and could coexist with housing and quality-of-life initiatives.There is a warning that recruiting corporations to fill this area would likely require a lot of investment in marketing and incentives.
Bazelli noted that the call for a new advertising area was strong and that new companies that moved to advertising parks in Santa Rosa County sometimes had salaries of around $45,000.He said Escambia County is more likely to create $60,000 in jobs through prosecution of others, such as fitness.professionals, operations managers and technical specialists.
Escambia County officials hope that TRIUMPH Gulf Coast will help the county recoup some of its land acquisition costs. This money is conditional on creating high-paying jobs, and Barry summed up the Commissioner’s considerations by noting that OLF-8 land used for houses is not used for business.
He introduced the concept of ceding assets as soon as possible: making mandatory infrastructure innovations for things like stormwater control and access to the web, and then promoting them among developers.Barry noted that the county can simply make some progression aligned with county and network goals through things like zoning statutes.
Marina Khoury, who leads the main plan-making procedure at DPZ, told commissioners that marketing examines only one starting point and that the company would provide more data to the network and receive more information from the network in the coming months.
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Khoury told the commissioners that the ultimate purpose is to “give them a master plan that is as flexible as possible, and to do so on stage.”
He said there would be a plan that would treat OLF-8 simply as an advertising park, and another that would read about how the land could evolve according to the findings of the marketing study.You would continue to incorporate red.de myolf8.com and a network design cart from September 21 to 29 into your plans.
“The goal of developing general plans and cart efforts is to provide you with options so that you can perceive the implications of those elections and then vote them for or against,” Khoury said.
Doug Underhill noted that the network’s comments were on figuring out how to proceed, because while OLF-8’s assets were a county-wide investment, it was the home of the citizens of Beulah.
“As everyone who participated in the carts knows, knowledge sets are the beginning of the conversation, the end of the conversation,” Underhill said.
You can contact Kevin Robinson at [email protected] or 850-435-8527.