Category Urban Transformation & the Future
PSC Receives $1.3 Million Grant for Veterans Upward Bound Program
Reading Time: 2 minutesPensacola State College has received a $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to renew its Veterans Upward Bound (VUB) program for the next five years. The program assists 130 veterans per year as they gain the skills needed to enter college and become successful students. The program at Pensacola State is currently […]
First Look: Proposals Unveiled for New $130M Escambia County Jail
Reading Time: 2 minutesConceptual designs for a new Escambia County Jail were unveiled on Tuesday, with two finalists for the nearly $130 million contract making presentations to county commissioners. The new facility will be built adjacent to, and will connect with, the existing 1980s-era jail, which has become severely overcrowded following a 2014 gas explosion that destroyed the […]
Raytheon to Hire Over 140 Employees in Pensacola Under $1 Billion Cyber Contract
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRaytheon to hire more than 140 in Pensacola as part of $1 billion cyber contract Drew BuchananDrew BuchananJune 17, 2016BusinessMetro PensacolaMilitary & DefensePolitics & Government Special to The Pulse. After recently being awarded a $1 billion contract to protect the networks of dozens of federal agencies from cyber threats, Raytheon plans to hire more than […]
Pensacola wind energy supplier opens new plant, adds more than 200 jobs
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Pensacola renewable energy supplier is expanding its operations and is on track to bring hundreds of manufacturing jobs to the Gulf Coast. Denmark-based Jupiter Group, a supplier to General Electric’s wind energy manufacturing plant in Pensacola, celebrated the announcement with its expansion into a new multi-million dollar, 25,000-square-foot manufacturing facility at the Ellison Industrial […]
Downtown Pensacola Apartment Project Slated to Break Ground
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter several months of unanticipated delays, the highly anticipated mixed-use apartment development led by Quint Studer is officially moving forward. The $52 million downtown Pensacola project is now on track to break ground this spring. Quint and Rishy Studer finalized the financing for the project this afternoon in downtown Pensacola. The development — located in […]
Quint Studer Resigns from Studer Group, $50M Downtown Project Suspended
Reading Time: 2 minutesJust hours after resigning from the healthcare consulting firm he founded, Pensacola developer Quint Studer informed a group of realtors that his proposed $50 million mixed-use development in downtown Pensacola would not move forward. Studer, 64, is well known not only as the founder of Studer Group, but also as the owner — along with […]