Late Friday afternoon, we received an email that a Pensacola City Council Workshop has been scheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 5, in the Hagler Mason Conference Room, 2nd Floor of City Hall. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss Reimagine Palafox.
Background: On Wednesday and Thursday, Mayor D.C. Reeves and Project Strategic Initiatives Chief Adrianne Walker unveiled the latest details of the New Palafox Street reconstruction project to downtown business owners and retailers.
Mayor Reeves made clear that despite ongoing discussions, nothing has been finalized. “Nothing has been signed. The city has to go to the council to get funding approval. That has not happened yet,” he told attendees. “This project can go really three different directions as it sits in the city right now.”
- The three options include: doing nothing and leaving utility cuts in the road, proceeding with Florida Power & Light’s basic mill-and-overlay obligation, or moving forward with the comprehensive New Palafox project currently under consideration. Read more.
On Wednesday, the mayor stated he planned to hold a council workshop during either the second or third week of November, with a council vote in December. That timetable appears to have changed.
Budget
The workshop memorandum lays out the project’s budget:…