Comments on: New Airport Coverstory for Southeast Real Estate Business News http://pcbdaily.com/new-airport-coverstory-for-southeast-real-estate-business-news Panama City Beach Information, news, and updates including Pier Park and the Panama City Airport Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:30:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Mark Hodgson http://pcbdaily.com/new-airport-coverstory-for-southeast-real-estate-business-news#comment-15832 Mark Hodgson Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:21:07 +0000 http://pcbdaily.com/?p=5018#comment-15832 Yes, that's what I have been saying since I stopped visiting Florida twenty years ago. What the state needs is more development and people. Southeast Real Estate Business News' report that development of residential, commercial and industrial space spread across 75,000 acres is aggressive but environmentally responsible is nonsensical. Incorporating more "green" features into a project hardly makes the project, as a whole, environmentally benign. Lamenting that Panama City and its surroundings hasn't been able to emulate the economic growth of the rest of Florida indicates a need for better role models. Much of Florida has mortgaged its future and one doesn't need to be particularly insightful to see it. Those things that truly support human enterprise (e.g., clean water; have you read DOH's fish consumption advisory lately?) are being squandered at an unprecedented rate. Visionaries would have recognized and attempted to capitalize on the unique and relatively intact nature of much of the panhandle region. Mark Hodgson Yes, that’s what I have been saying since I stopped visiting Florida twenty years ago. What the state needs is more development and people. Southeast Real Estate Business News’ report that development of residential, commercial and industrial space spread across 75,000 acres is aggressive but environmentally responsible is nonsensical. Incorporating more “green” features into a project hardly makes the project, as a whole, environmentally benign. Lamenting that Panama City and its surroundings hasn’t been able to emulate the economic growth of the rest of Florida indicates a need for better role models. Much of Florida has mortgaged its future and one doesn’t need to be particularly insightful to see it. Those things that truly support human enterprise (e.g., clean water; have you read DOH’s fish consumption advisory lately?) are being squandered at an unprecedented rate. Visionaries would have recognized and attempted to capitalize on the unique and relatively intact nature of much of the panhandle region.

Mark Hodgson

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