Episode #22 – Aqua Developer Deals (HOT)

This week’s features:

Deal 1 & 2 – Aqua Developer Closeout Deals
Deal 3 – Huge Colony Club Home for only $215k

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Deal 1 & 2 – Aqua Developer Closeout Deals

List Price: $238,995 – $510,440
Square Feet: 1,010 – 1,823
Don’t miss this opportunity to be in one of the most highly coveted beach front condominium resorts on Panama City Beach. Aqua is a high-end luxury resort with exquisite amenities and beautiful architecture. These will only be available for sale until the end of the week with over 20 being sold in the last two weeks. Give us a call now to see these amazing deals.

Deal 3 – Huge Colony Club Home for only $215k

List Price: $215,000
Square Feet: 1,900
Price/SqFt: $113.16
3 Bedrooms, 2 Bath
Built in 1995
Talk about a steal, you couldn’t touch a home in this neighborhood a few years ago for less than $275,000, and this home is a huge 3 bedroom home on a corner lot right on the fairway for only $215k!!! This home features a huge vaulted ceiling in the main living area, huge vaulted ceiling in the master bedroom, full dining room, eat-in kitchen, huge backyard and Florida room. This is a total steal and will not last.

Call us at 850-527-5651 to see these properties or for anything else you need regarding real estate in Panama City Beach.

AGENDA CVB Meeting: Presentations for Y Partnership Replacement

As you no doubt learned last week, Y Partnership is out as the TDC and CVB’s marketing and public relations agency. This Thursday presentations will be given by the top three candidates from each discipline to take over in Y-Partnership’s vacated position. If you’re not excited, check your pulse.

AGENDA

PANAMA CITY BEACH CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAU, INC.
Panama City Beach
Thursday, September 10, 2009
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Council Room, PCB City Hall

I. CALL MEETING TO ORDER

II. ROLL CALL

A. Invocation
B. Pledge of Allegiance

III. PRESENTATION FROM ADVERTISING AGENCIES, Mr. Dan Rowe, President

A. Beber Silverstein Group
B. Fahlgren
C. LKM

IV. PRESENTATIONS FROM PUBLIC RELATIONS FIRMS, Mr. Dan Rowe, President

A. Fahlgren
B. Hayworth Creative
C. Lou Hammond and Associates

V. BOARD DISCUSSION AND FINAL RANKING

VI. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

VII. ADJOURNMENT

To download this agenda please click HERE

All Play, No Work at Laketown Wharf Labor Day Weekend

Laketown Wharf is the place to play this Labor Day weekend with a full schedule of family fun events including a special dancing fountain light show, reptile show with John “The Snakeman” Moravek, live music and more. Bring a chair or blanket and catch a Saturday lineup of entertainment! Plus, a holiday discount takes some work off the wallet. Labor Day weekend guests save 20% off of fall vacation rates on 1, 2 or 3-bedroom condos.
Labor Day Events – Saturday, September 5 – All events open to the public

Reptile show with The Snakeman, John Moravek from 4pm – 6pm
Concert on the Green with Emerald County Live from 7pm – 9pm
Extended Dancing Fountain Light Show after the concert – 9pm
Extended hours for Laketown Wharf shops (Nola Blue, CHIC Culture, GOLF the World)
Weekend getaway giveaway for Laketown Wharf
Weekend children’s activities

Guests who want to extend their stay may take advantage of Laketown Wharf tours and save even more.

Vacation rental condo tour and receive a 15% discount on your next vacation 5pm – 8pm

Laketown Wharf Open House for long term rental units 4pm – 6pm

For more information please go to www.laketownwharf.com

Edgewater Beach Resort Earns Top Industry Professional Designation

Edgewater Beach Resort Management, Inc., the management company for The Resort Collection of Panama City Beach, recently joined the elite group of community association management companies who have earned the Accredited Association Management Company (AAMC) designation from the Community Associations Institute (CAI). Edgewater Beach Resort Management, Inc., is one of only 140 management companies nationwide who have earned the highest level of professional recognition in the community association field.

Edgewater Beach Resort Management, Inc., manages a total of 1664 condominium units, including 53 commercial units. The accreditation process took more than two months to complete. “This was a great exercise for our staff; the accreditation process is indepth and challenges you to look at the way you operate,” said Mike Wray, vice president of association management.

CAI is a national organization dedicated to fostering vibrant, responsive, competent community associations. Some 57 million Americans live in the nation’s estimated 286,000 association-governed communities.

To earn the AAMC distinction, management companies need three years of experience in community association management and at least 50 percent of their managers must have earned professional designations. Edgewater Management has over 25 years of experience and has two Professional Community Association Managers (PCAMs) on staff. The PCAM credential is the highest CAI designation that can be earned by an individual manager.

Professional managers provide administrative, operational, and managerial counsel to community association boards. They typically are responsible for managing budgets and contractors, directing association personnel, and overseeing compliance with association covenants and restrictions.

CAI has more than 55 state, regional, and local chapters and more than 28,000 members, which include community association volunteer leaders, community managers, management companies, and businesses that provide products and services to communities.

2008 HOLLY FAIR RAISES $197,000: 2009 Looking Good Too

The Junior Service League of Panama City has announced that the 20th Annual Holly Fair event held from November 6th through 9th, 2008 at Boardwalk Beach Resort & Conference Center has raised $197,000 for local service projects.

Funds raised from Holly Fair, which this past season boasted over 75 merchants from around the United States, are used to support local programs and many Bay County organizations.

“Each year, the Bay County community and every Junior Service League member is committed to making our annual Holly Fair an exceptional event and this year, with economic conditions as they are, it was wonderful to be able to exceed our goal from last year,” said Event Co-Chair Lacey Obos.

The Junior Service League depends on the success of Holly Fair to support its mission of promoting volunteerism and improving the community. Through Holly Fair funds, the Junior Service League has become the primary source of clothing for deserving children in Bay District Schools providing over 2000 children in 2008 alone with new outfits for both school and play. In addition to supporting educational and charitable programs including elderly outreach, the Junior Service League also contributes to other local agencies. Past recipients have included the Children’s Home Society, Life Management Center & St. Andrew’s Bay Center.

“On behalf of the over 90 volunteers who make up the Junior Service League, I am grateful to each sponsor, each merchant, each business & media partner and the over 12,000 people who embraced and supported the 20th Annual Holly Fair,” added Tracy Rudder, Event Co-Chair.

The 2009 Holly Fair is scheduled for November 5th through 8th at Boardwalk Beach Resort. For more information, contact (850)785-7870 or visit http://www.jslpanamacity.org.

Edgewater Beach & Golf Resort Celebrates Labor Day in Style

Edgewater Beach & Golf Resort, a property of The Resort Collection of Panama City Beach, announced plans for an exciting Labor Day celebration. The food and beverage specialists at the resort will be preparing a cookout that embodies all the flavors of summer, with hamburgers, hot dogs and many other tasty dishes served along the deck of the beautiful Lagoon Pool. Plates will start at only $4 per person. Edgewater will be providing bounce houses, fun and games on the beach for kids to play the day away. Guests and local VIP cardholders will be able to enjoy live music and good food as they enjoy a venue that overlooks one of the world’s most beautiful beaches.

For information on Edgewater Golf & Beach Resort, call 866.874.8686 or visit www.edgewaterbeachresort.com.

Tired of Panama City Beach – Discover the Magic of 30A

Just minutes away from our pristine beaches lies a hidden gem that is as magical as Disney itself, the 30A corridor. I’ve talked to so many of you that utilize this well kept secret for family outings, stay-cations, Friday-night events or bar-hopping flossy-style and this week we’re going to tell you all about it. Well, almost all about it, maybe we’ll leave out the bar-hopping, because I don’t drink. 😉

What we are going to do is a TooCreative first, and hopefully a regular event for the staff. On Thursday at 1:30 pm, we will embark on an adventure to our neighboring tourist attraction, 30A to share snippets of what makes life so magical over there. This is an area that is known around the world as a high-end, unique and charming haven for vacationers and property owners alike.

This jaunt will be broken into 7 sections: Inlet Beach, Rosemary, Alys Beach, Seaside, Watercolor, Grayton Beach, and Blue Mountain Beach. We’ll be doing this here on pcbdaily AND on seepcb, looking at the “newsy” stuff and the “touristy” stuff, respectively. The goal is to have a guerrilla style series of articles that give you an update and tell you about the area as we find it on Thursday. As we experience, we will write and take pictures. Then, when we find a place that has internet, we’ll publish right to the sites.

This is going to be tons of fun which you can follow the adventure Thursday by visiting seepcb.com/30a

The Magic of Inlet Beach

Tucked quietly just west of Panama City Beach, not even quite to Highway 30A, Inlet Beach is well known as the quiet beach. Talking to a friend recently (keeping all confidentiality) she subtly disclosed that this was were the nudists once frequented. No naked people today.

Just a few short weeks ago we featured a what-would-seem-to-be boring little house. But it wasn’t the house that sells the area. What sells the area is the quaintness (is that a word?). The charm is all the undeveloped county-owned land that is well preserved, the raw dunes, the rough walk-overs, the unbelievable views over the towering dunes.

The real estate market has held over fairly well. Property values haven’t dipped much, although demand has waned considerably. Close to Highway 98 a series of dilapidated homes pepper the area missing the Tyvek wrapping on the first floor. The homes were started a few years back but never finished.

– Jason

Visit seepcb.com/30a for Inlet Beach SeePCB-style

57 Reasons the New South Thomas Drive will Rock

The Front Beach Road CRA in Panama City Beach is set to change the face of the beach and reset the perception of all those that visit our beautiful area. Right now, driving up and down our main travel corridors is non-to-pleasing to the eye, what with the towering out of the ground utilities and lack of proper sidewalks and landscaping. BUT, that’s all in the process of change. Change is good, right?

Yesterday evening a community workshop was held at the CRA office to show off what’s in store for the next phase of the CRA (community redevelopment area), including South Thomas Drive, a section of Front Beach Road and the intersection of Front Beach Road, Middle Beach Road and North Thomas Drive.

Tip: You can learn more about the CRA, or you can read below for more details on this portion.

I’m going to warn you, what you are about to read will be long, but super rich with multimedia. Hopefully you’ll have a great idea as to what this portion of the cra will actually involve.

This roadways covered in this portion of the CRA form a loop, if you will around Laketown Wharf and a portion of the Signal Hill Golf course. The road runs right by Boardwalk Beach Resort, then passes by Pineapple Willies, through condo canyon (Laketown Wharf/Shores of Panama), goes right carrying you right past Wal-Mart and through the intersection just a little where Walgreen’s, Ripley’s and Backyard Burger rest. Included also is a little bit of the roadway called North Thomas Drive that would lead you down to the camp ground across from Club La Vela.

Here are the 57 Reasons the New South Thomas Drive will Rock

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Front Beach, Middle Beach, North Thomas Drive Intersection

This is the intersection described above that plays home to Ripley’s Believe it or Not!
They will completely redo the whole intersection, traffic lights and all
The new intersection will have an emphasis on pedestrian friendliness
- Currently it is difficult for peds to cross because of the wide road ways
- They will redo some of the existing pedestrian islands
- Also, an additional pedestrian island will be added by Backyard Burger
- Existing ped islands will be beautified
The famous dedicated right turn lane from west-bound Front Beach Road that turns onto Middle Beach will be done away with, median curb and all
- But, that lane will still be a turn only lane, just not dedicated
- Actually, they will ad an additional right turn lane making the total number of right turn lanes from Front Beach to Middle Beach TWO
Right smack dab in the middle of the intersection will be a huge decorative paver insignia of the Panama City Beach logo surely marketing the busiest intersection on Panama City Beach. Could Wal-mart have anything to do with that? hmmm
The right turn from North Thomas Drive onto Front Beach Road (by the Ripley’s museum) will be pulled back to make it a larger radius. You may have noticed their new sign and how it has recently moved back. They were getting it out of the way!
Pedestrian walkways will be very clearly marked
My favorite: all those ugly utility lines (power, phone and the like) will be moved UNDERGROUND!
Sidewalks will be installed
Cool street lamps will be installed
Lovely landscaping that will hopefully be taken good care of.

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The Circle K Intersection of Front Beach Road

This area covers the “curve” by Laketown Wharf and the entrance of Shores of Panama.
This area is well known for its traffic during peak seasons
Many in attendance were not happy with the plans as they did not seem to address the current problems
- I talked with the owner of Pineapple Willies who was telling me that teh traffic problems there greatly effect his business every year
- Many property owners there expressed their concern that during peak seasons it was very difficult for them to come and go from their residences
- Some of the suggestions included widening the turn so that there would be two dedicated turn lanes because all of the traffic is broken up to turn right or left at the Circle K
The plans include a dedicated Tram lane for the multi-model transportation device
- Many suggested to do away with this all together, but this route of the Tram service is integral in the Tram “looping” back to return to the west end of Panama City Beach
- The goal of the Tram is to get people to park their cars and ride mass transportation systems, this could work great, if done correctly.
- I think cars would be able to travel in this Tram lane, so they could use the Tram lane to turn right, right?
Of course, all utilities will be moved underground
Sidewalks will be installed
Landscaping will be installed
There will be clearly marked crossing areas with pedestrian medians
There will be periodic cut-outs for the Tram loading and unloading stops

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South Thomas Drive, North Thomas Drive Intersection

Located right by Alvin’s Island
They actually (they, as in The City of Panama City Beach) bought a huge chunk of land between Alvin’s Island and Signal Hill Golf Course
This land will be used to build a retention pond and a cut through roadway
The retention pond will be designed to be a beautiful amenity
- Sidewalks all around with sitting areas
- Landscaped and lighted
- It looks as thought there may be a little roadside parking for those that may want to enjoy
The roadway cut through will be charged with the goal of easing traffic into North Thomas Drive
- Intersection will be “signalized”
- Right now, the turn just sort of “juts” out, giving more bias to turning right then left, and is actually quite dangerous if you’re not paying attention.
- The new intersection will have pedestrian walkways clearly marked
- There will be a little right off-shoot to cover access still to boardwalk and thee other “local” businesses.
- This will alleviate some of the traffic pressure during peak seasons and times of high traffic *cough* little wayner
Alvin’s Island will actually be a little “island”

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Huge Retention Pond in Place of Old Homeless Camp

This retention pond will actually be behind McDonalds in front of the Wal-Mart parking lot (bet you were always wondering what was behind all those shrubs at the end of the Wal-Mart parking lot, weren’t you?)
Right now there is a fence along the McDonald’s parking lot
- I was told that this lot was the former site of a homeless camp, even though it is right in the middle of the action, it was actually well secluded. That is before the city came in and ruined the fun and cleared it all out.
- I was also told that McD’s is anxious for this as when it is build, they will tear down their fence and open it up for their customers to use
This retention pond will be quite large and will feature landscaping and sidewalks all around
A “viewing” platform will be built with seating areas so that people can enjoy the view of the retention pond
Lighting, landscaping and sidewalks all around (did I say that already?)
The public will have access to the amenity from both Middle Beach and Front Beach Roads

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Below are some high-resolution renderings of the different aspects of the project.

Help the Miracle League by Riding the Carousel

On Saturday September 12th, the Miracle Strip Carousel at Pier Park will be hosting a fund-raiser for the Miracle League of the Emerald Coast. Miracle League is a baseball league for children with disabilities. 100% of the proceeds from all ticket sales between 12-4pm will be donated to the Miracle League to help defray the costs of uniforms, bats, balls and other supplies needed by the league. Single tickets are $3 per ride or $5 for an all day pass.

Join us to help a great cause.

Teddy & Jenny Meeks
Miracle Strip Carousel

History of the Miracle League of the Emerald Coast:

After realizing there are 5,000+ children in Bay County between the ages of 3 and 19 who are unable to participate in conventional baseball leagues due to physical or mental disabilities the Rotary of Panama City Beach decided to spearhead the development of a local Miracle League.

The Panama City Beach Rotary Club, a small club of 55 members and a lot of heart, approached the City of Panama City Beach for assistance. The Panama City Beach City Council seeing the need for “an adaptive recreational facility open to children of all ages and abilities where no child is turned away” unanimously voted to designate an area of Frank Brown Park for the development of a facility that would accommodate Miracle League players. The sportsplex could not have been a more perfect location as the entire infrastructure is in place.

The City agreed to assume responsibility for scheduling, maintaining and operating all programs provided the Panama City Beach Rotary Club along with the Miracle League of the Emerald Coast assumes the task of organizing the new league and generating funding for the fields construction.