The Central Avenue block that houses businesses such as Dirty Laundry and The Burg Bar and Grill – and the former home of the Hideaway Cafe – will be the site of a mixed-use residential project. During a Thursday city council meeting, the councilmembers, meeting as the Community Redevelopment Agency, unanimously approved Trammell Crow Residential’s…
The City of Pensacola has been awarded with a $500,000 African-American Cultural and Historical grant from the State of Florida Department of State for the preservation and restoration of the Alice S. Williams Library, the first library in the city serving African-American residents dating back to 1952. An additional $300,000 that was provided by the…
A team of researchers from the University of South Florida has received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to help build more equitable communities. The award, which also includes researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, will fund a project to establish practices to improve civil and environmental engineering curriculum by providing…
