Over the weekend, the servers will be down for maintenance and pcbdaily.com may not be available for some of that time, if not all of that time.
The Monday newsletter is still on schedule to go out and the site should be up mid Sunday, if not Monday morning at the latest.
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BEACHES CHAMBER OPENS
TOURIST INFORMATION CENTER
IN PANAMA CITY BEACH
CONTACT:
Marta Rose, Senior Vice President Marketing & PR
850-235-1159
marta@PCBeach.org
Panama City Beach, FL (March 2008) – The Greater Panama City Beaches Chamber of Commerce’s top priority for 2008 has been to relocate its offices to a larger facility which would double as a tourist and relocation information center. That goal will be met on April 7, 2008, when the Chamber’s new Tourist Information Center will open at the Beckrich Centre, Panama City Beach’s newest, Class-A business center located in the heart of the Beckrich corridor. The spacious, state-of-the-art lobby is informative and historical, educational, entertaining and fun, and is the perfect resource for visitors coming to the area looking for accommodations, things to do, demographics, economic stats and community information. Directional DOT (Department of Transportation) signs are being placed all over Panama City Beach guiding visitors to the new location.
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Yesterday was the ribbon cutting for the 4 new tennis courts in Frank Brown Park located behind the facilities building on the north side of the park property. According to Mayor Gayle Oberst, these are the first tennis courts they’ve built in 30 years.
People definitely have different views concerning whether Panama City Beach should continue to promote College Spring Break. I wonder whether these opposing views prevent us from reaching any conclusions about whether or not College Spring Break is in the best interest of our beautiful destination.
In an effort to try to work out this problem, maybe we could all agree on something like the following. If so, the community could begin to actually analyze whether College Spring Break helps or hurts our destination’s economy rather than just debating the issue. These stipulations may seem obvious to many; however, some on both sides definitely need to have more respect for how this issue affects other people. It is my hope that people on both sides will offer suggestions so that we can reach an impartial and workable “Stipulations Concerning the College Spring Break Disagreement”.
-Bryan Durta
PIER PARK AND HUMANE SOCIETY OF BAY COUNTY FEATURED
ON COVERS OF New AT&T REAL YELLOW PAGES DIRECTORIES
More Than 309,000 Directories to Be Distributed to Area Residents and Businesses
PANAMA CITY, Fla., March 26, 2008 – Pier Park, Panama City’s new open-air regional lifestyle center, is featured on the cover of the new AT&T Real Yellow Pages directory for Panama City. The Humane Society of Bay County will be featured on the AT&T Real Yellow Pages Companion directory, which is the smaller, more portable version of the traditional directory.
More than 309,000 copies of the AT&T Real Yellow Pages and Companion have been produced for distribution this year. Delivery starts this week and lasts approximately four weeks. The directory also will be available to new residents and businesses throughout the year.
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Here is the agenda for the TDC meeting scheduled for April 2, 2008. They will be covering the Indian Summer Festival and the Spring Jazz Festival proposals.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 1:30 p.m. Board Room
Visitor Information Center
I. CALL MEETING TO ORDER
II. ROLL CALL
III. REQUESTS TO ADDRESS THE COMMITTEE ON AGENDA ITEMS (3 Minutes)
IV. PROPOSAL ON INDIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL, Mr. Dan Rowe, President
V. PROPOSAL ON SPRING JAZZ FESTIVAL, Mr. Dan Rowe, President
VI. PRESIDENT’S REPORT, Mr. Dan Rowe, President
VII. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION
VIII. ADJOURNMENT
The agenda is also available for print: TDC Meeting Agenda for 4/2/2008
Something that keeps coming up in discussion with the readers of pcbdaily are whether or not dogs should be allowed in the Pier Park retail areas. I can certainly understand the appeal of bringing our k-9 friends with us for a stroll down the boardwalk area of Pier Park – Simon has done a great job of creating large walk areas for strolling.
I’m a dog person, but I’ve never been one to bring my pet with me everywhere, but I know people who do.
Pier Park North, close to Target and behind Dillard’s and JCPenney is on schedule to open early summer. Stores such as Borders Books and Music, Hollister, Old Navy, American Eagle, Aeropostale and Journey’s will be in this location. Fresh Market will also be in this section.
As reported by the National Association of Realtors, national existing home sales were up in February 2.9% to a pace of 5.03 million units, up from 4.89 million in January. This is still 23.8% below February 2007, but Lawrence Yun said “the improvement is another sign that the market is stabilizing.”
The national median home price is down from last year ($213,500) to $195,900, mostly the result of the slowdown in sales being greater in higher-cost areas.
More stores were announced last week in Pier Park bringing the total stores announced to 96. Almost all of the Boardwalk area is open with everything to be open by early summer.
Some of the new stores announced include Pacific Sunwear, Hana Japan, Paradise Found, Guy Harvey’s Grill, Verizon, Cost Cutters, and Boardwalk Bag’s.
Click the “more” link for an entire list of announced stores.
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