Pensacola City Council members took a bit of a gamble in a bid to land a popular grocery store, but it hasn’t paid off in the way they’d hoped.
A 5,200-square-foot Circle K gas station is under construction in Pensacola on property that was rezoned in 2023 to make way for what was then proposed to be Pensacola’s first Aldi grocery store.
Before 2023, the property at the corner of Tippin Avenue and Creighton Road was zoned for a residential/office use that would not have allowed the construction of a gas station or grocery store, and developers were seeking to change it to a commercial use zoning designation…