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Pensacola is the World’s Strongest Town

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It’s official: Pensacola is the world’s strongest town. After four rounds of intense competition featuring 16 towns from across the map, online voters have picked Pensacola as the town that’s making the biggest strides toward being financially strong and resilient. The final match-up pitted Pensacola against Portsmouth, New Hampshire, another colonial, coastal city with a … Read more

IHMC Helps Pensacola Police Develop Drone Program

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The next time the Pensacola Police Department is faced with locating a missing child or diffusing a hostage standoff, officers will have four new high-tech drones at their disposal. The drones — two indoor and two outdoor — were custom built by scientists at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition in downtown Pensacola and … Read more

Northwest Florida Is Flying High

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FloridaWest Economic Development Alliance serves as the marketing arm for economic development on behalf of the PEDC, the city and the county. Its responsibilities also include running and managing a business incubator, Co:Lab, which is housed in downtown Pensacola in a building owned by Pensacola State College. That is, FloridaWest is involved in “growing our … Read more

Pensacola Beach voted No. 1 beach in Florida

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Where is the best beach in Florida? Right here, of course. Pensacola Beach has been voted the No. 1 best beach in Florida, according to USA Today’s 10Best Readers Choice Awards for 2018.For more information, head on over to the Pensacola News Journal. 

Palafox Street Pensacola: One of the 10 Great Streets in America

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7 Among the handful of streets in the U.S. to shape and be shaped by 250 years of British, Spanish, and American influence is Palafox Street, the gateway to Pensacola, Florida, and the city’s main stage for holiday and seasonal celebrations that draw up to 50,000 people at a time. Palafox was designated by the American … Read more

Pensacola named 15th ‘most desirable’ place to live in U.S.

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“Pensacola has been named to U.S. News and World Report’s top 25 most desirable places to live in the United States in 2019.” “Pensacola was No. 15 on the list.” “Among the factors contributing to the Best Places to Live rankings — including affordability, job market and population growth due to net migration — U.S. … Read more

Co:Lab celebrates the opening of new ground floor

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FloridaWest welcomed the entrepreneurial community to Co:Lab for the official ribbon cutting of their new ground floor May 8. CO:LAB, a program of FloridaWest EDA, supported by Pensacola State College, is Pensacola’s business incubator and growth accelerator. At Co:Lab we have one goal: to help entrepreneurs reach their next level.We do it with a community … Read more