A New Orleans/Mobile/Old Pensacola feel will dominate the area known as the “Old Town Landing” in Niceville if the firm that the city charged with creating design standards in the six-acre waterfront off Bayshore has its way.
AVCON unveiled its design standards to the Niceville Community Redevelopment Agency, which comprises the city council and mayor, at their monthly meeting in October.
These design standards would be a part of the RFP, or request for proposal, that the city would put out to the development community as a standard by which a developer who got the right to develop the project from the city would have to conform to. ” these could be design guidelines that that we give to developers when they come in to develop other properties adjacent to the landing just To keep that consistent esthetic and upgraded or elevated design that we’re looking for in a redevelopment scheme,” Deputy City Administrator Kristen Shell told the CRA.
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