Pier Park Featured on Cover of the New AT&T Real Yellow Pages

Pier Park on cover of AT&T Real Yellow Pages

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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TDC Meeting Agenda for 4/2/2008 – Indian Summer Festival

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

Dogs in Pier Park?

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.

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National Homes Sales Up

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.

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New Stores Announced in Pier Park

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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This week in Spring Break 2008, Panama City Beach

Last week was indeed the big week, but it’s still not over. My in-laws own a rental management company on the beach that my wife works at on weekends. She said yesterday, “this must be the vomit and poop week.” She said they found human feces on the living room floor in one home and feces on a window sill in another home with vomit all over the place. gross.

Click the “more” link for a list of schools in town this week”

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New Airport Designs released

as from the newsherald

As reported by the News Herald.

HNTB Architecture, the firm that has taken over the design of the new airport facilities presented the new design ideas to the Airport Authority Thursday.

HNTB meets with the Airport Authority Board monthly and have been challenged to get the overall cost of the $30 million terminal down and make it more environmentally friendly.

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Notes from the March 20, 2008 TDC/CVB Marketing Committee Meeting

Only 7 of the 11 members were present. Absent were Philip Griffits, Jr., John Hamati, Bill Spann, and Debi Knight.

2009 COLLEGE SPRING BREAK MARKETING CAMPAIGN

President Dan Rowe explained that he would like the Committee and Board to begin discussing their plans, if any, for this segment ahead of the upcoming budget process. Rowe also reported that he has had discussions with the CVB’s agency about completing additional research to determine what the year-round effect is of our spring break image. Image concerns were also expressed by a majority of the committee members present. Although no formal vote took place, the majority of the committee expressed an interest in either discontinuing funding completely or at least changing it to special event funding. If changed to special event funding, the CVB would only consider providing financial support after an organization or co-op made a formal request for financial support.

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