Archive for the ‘Airport’ Category
Oh, snap.
Rick Outzen is reporting that PNS Hotel Group, Ltd., a consortium of developers, has filed suit against the City of Pensacola over its lease of property at Pensacola Gulf Coast Regional Airport to Sandspur Development, LLC for the purposes of developing a hotel and other commercial properties. PNS Hotel Group is comprised of Bob Cleveland, Dave Cleveland, Jim Cronley, Tony Terhaar, Darryl Lapointe, and John Connell, and owns and manages three hotels in the Airport area.
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Here’s the cliffnotes from yesterday’s City Council committee meetings. Remember that items approved by committees then proceed to the regular Thursday night Council meeting to be approved or disapproved by the full Council.
Committee of the Whole
*Dr. Coy Irvin appeared to thank the City for its help with the Celebrate Pensacola 450th anniversary festivities. Everyone patted one another on the back.
*Staff provided to Council the “initial evaluation” of the CMPA development agreement by Abramson and Associates.
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On the agenda for Monday’s meetings of the various committees of the Pensacola City Council (the last committee meetings of the current Council!):
Committee of the Whole
Dr. Coy Irvin will give a presentation on the Celebrate Pensacola 450th anniversary festivities.
Staff will provide to Council the “initial evaluation” of the CMPA development agreement by Abramson and Associates.
Community [...]
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The PNJ’s Mark O’Brien has two worthwhile posts up today:
Mark O’Brien: “Troubles continue”
As Mark notes, City-owned Osceola Golf Course finished FY2008 more than $180,000 in red, which the City taxpayers will make up. I was planning on getting to this, but Mark beat me to it. As we’ve said before, the City should sell the [...]
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The PNJ’s Jamie Page has a story out this morning on the email chain I published yesterday, between the Innisfree developers and they City’s airport director.
One part of Page’s story that sticks out at me is this quote from Frank Miller:
Miller said Thursday the e-mail did not influence the timing of his presentation to the [...]
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On November 5, the day after the general election, Richard A. Chism, the Director of Development for Julian MacQueen’s Innisfree Hotels, wrote an “political appraisal” in order to help determine the timing of bringing the Airport project before Council.
Mr. MacQueen then forwarded this email to Airport director Frank Miller, at which point it became a [...]
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Jim Cronley spoke against the MacQueen airport deal at Council last Thursday, and threw in a little showmanship:
A transcript:
I’ve got a short statement about the lease, but before that I’ve got a confession to make. Last Tuesday, I got a phone call from somebody that I knew, that said there is more than one lease [...]
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Frank Miller’s prepared statement to the City Council, apologising for the airport appraisal mishap:
A transcript:
Mr. Mayor and members of the City Council,
The airport undertakes appraisals for the leasing, purchase, or disposal of property with a varying range of guidelines. For airside appraisals, we commission one appraiser with the expertise in airside regulations and restrictions; for [...]
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Following up on the previous post, here’s the video of Pensacola City Councilman Sam Hall questioning Frank Miller about the misplaced appraisals at last Thursday’s Council meeting:
Transcript of the good part (starts around 1:10 into the video):
Hall: Regardless of what staff thought they understood about rental car agreements, hotel agreements, if an appraisal comes in, [...]
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Update: I want to clarify that while the below post offers my thoughts on Frank Miller and the comments Councilman Hall has made, it should be noted that Councilman Hall did not single out Miller, and indeed advocates the dismissal of any member of City staff, whether Miller, his subordinates, or superiors, whom was grossly [...]
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Mark O’Brien has a post up lambasting Pensacola City Councilman Sam Hall, both for his call for resignations or firings Wednesday of those responsible for the Airport appraisal error and for Hall’s rebuke of Airport Director Miller last night at Council.
The appraisal error, according to Mr. Miller, was due to the fact that the latter [...]
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Late in a four-hour marathon meeting of the Pensacola City Council, the proposed lease of airport land to with Julian MacQueen’s Sandspur, LLC was approved by a vote of 7-3, with Councilmen Hall, Wiggins, and Townsend dissenting.
The proposed lease agreement, under which Mr. MacQueen intends to develop a hotel and other retail opportunities, was by [...]
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