Although the numbers are down from the same period last year, from February to March, the number of existing home and condo sales is up in Florida. With 9,142 total existing single-family home sales in March, this marks a 10% increase over February’s 8,310 number.
Condo sales were up over 13% in March compared to February 2008 with 3,145 total sold, compared to 2,765 condos sold in February.
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Press Release:
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 was met on April 7, 2008, when the Chamber’s new Tourist Information Center opened 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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By: Juliann Talkington
Juliann Talkington is the administrator of the Panama City Renaissance School. Reach her on 850-215-8712 or jtalkington@pcrschool.org.
On Friday, Florida’s Great Northwest, the economic development organization for our region, presented details on a target industry study. The event was attended by government officials and business and community leaders from Bay County and the surrounding areas. The study suggested our region has a competitive advantage in four target industries: 1) aerospace and defense, 2) health sciences and human performance-enhancement, 3) renewal energy and environment and 4) transportation and logistics.
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9 of the 11 committee members were present. Absent were Debi Knight and Russ Smith.
President Dan Rowe and Peter Yesawich announced that Y Partnership has removed Barry Lott from the Summer Marketing Campaign assignment. Mr. Yesawich also apologize on behalf of the agency for the inappropriate derogatory name directed at audience member Charles Mason by Mr. Lott at last week’s Board meeting. It was not made clear whether Mr. Lott has been removed from all CVB business or just the current campaign.
Mr. Yesawich presented the committee with the options available for the changes to the Summer Marketing Campaign approved by the Board at their last meeting. The program targets our traditional drive markets of Georgia, Alabama, and Nashville/Chattanooga for a 12 week period beginning May 4th and has three elements. The first is newspaper ads in 12 newspapers throughout Georgia (but not the AJC due to high-costs), the Nashville Tennessean, and 4 papers in Alabama.
Old Navy is open (thanks Billy), and Aeropostale, Hollister, Borders, Bath and Body works, American Eagle, Chicos, NY&C, and more will be open first week in May. Tilly’s is also coming. For those of you that don’t know what Tilly’s is (I was in that catagory) it is a cool clothing store. I took a peek inside the windows this morning and saw Volcom, Roxy and other cool-guy apparel signs. Sweet!
A complete recap will follow, but here are the actions taken by the TDC/CVB Marketing Committee at their meeting today.
Changes to Summer Marketing Campaign
The committee voted 7-2 to approve the theme “Summer White Sale” along with an accompanying estimated savings statement such as “Save up to $1000”. The exact amount of estimated savings to be included in the advertisements will be determined by staff and Y Partnership after the tourist-related businesses submit their discount offers. The motion also directed staff and Chairman Phillips to develop a co-op plan so that sufficient funds can be raised to upgrade the newspaper advertising to color.
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New stuff is springing up all over the place. At the intersection of Bechrich and Back Beach Roads, in addition to the Home Depot, tons of other stuff is coming online, with much more, I’m sure, in the future.
Check out the video after the break.
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Below are proposed marketing collateral for the summer 2008 marketing campaign. They include a proposal, some print examples and an online ad.
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PCBeachesDirect.com, sister website to DestinDirect.com has just launched in Panama City Beach. Offering information on accommodations, attractions, dining, entertainment, fishing and boating, real estate, recreation, shopping, travel and weddings, they will have a wealth of information once they get going.
Check it out.
Special Called Meeting
AGENDA
MARKETING COMMITTEE MEETING
Panama City Beach Convention & Visitors Bureau, Inc.
Panama City Beach
Friday, April 18, 2008 10:30 a.m. Council Room, PCB City Hall
I. CALL MEETING TO ORDER
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