Community Maritime Park Fact Sheet

THE VISION
A multi-use community park on Pensacola Bay that encourages complete waterfront access to the public, stimulates downtown development and creates unprecedented public/private cooperation. The park will include a conference/continuing education center, a maritime museum and research facility, a public green space six times larger than Seville Square and a 3,500 seat multi-purpose stadium.

COMMUNITY NEEDS
  • Publicly oriented development along Pensacola's waterfront benefiting the entire
     community.
  • A location for a maritime museum and University of West Florida-associated      research facility.
  • A location for Pensacola's numerous community events including festivals, outdoor      concerts, sporting events, and community galas.
  • A mid-sized conference center and parking facility.
  • A venue for the expansion of the University of West Florida in downtown.
  • A stadium that will successfully accommodate professional baseball.
     (Market surveys indicate minor-league baseball WILL be successful with the
     construction of a stadium. The Pensacola Pelicans are partnering in the stadium's
     funding.)

PROJECT GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
  • Community Park Providing More than a half-mile of uninterrupted waterfront
     access.
  • Multi-use facility for sports, cultural, festival and other community events.
  • Maritime museum and research facility.
  • Maritime museum dock facility for tall ships, research ships, and visiting vessels.
  • Community conference/continuing education center.
  • Retail and office space spurring waterfront development and creating economic
     opening to west Pensacola.
  • Pensacola Pelican's baseball stadium to achieve increased attendance, increased
     revenue, and additional fan amenities.

THE COMMUNITY MARITIME PARK WILL BE MULTI-USE AND WILL:
  • Create a cultural, entertainment and recreational anchor on the waterfront in
     downtown Pensacola.
  • Develop multiple amenities, from the continuing education center to the maritime
     museum and multi-use
  • stadium/festival park, enhancing the quality of life for everyone in the community.
  • Create facilities that, via baseball, sporting events, festivals, and other community
     events will attract outside visitors to downtown Pensacola.
  • Generate NEW tax revenue from increased sales and bed taxes.
  • Create dozens of NEW jobs.
  • Create hundreds of construction jobs, millions of dollars in wages, and tens of
     thousands of dollars in sales tax revenue during construction.