Tuesday June 26th, 2007 - 12:19PM

Master Developer criteria set, Top 4 will appear at July 13 meeting

Got questions? Call them in this Thursday!

WEBY AM-1330 will host Mr. Edward E. Spears, the non-profit CMPA’s acting executive director, on its news-interview program “Your Turn” airing from 5 – 6 PM this Thursday, June 28.

WEBY AM-1330’s 25,000-watt signal makes it the only news-talk station covering the entire geography of Escambia and Santa Rosa counties in Florida. It’s powerful enough to be picked up clearly inside this area’s office buildings.

Based upon calls from listeners into the station’s programs, the station also reaches north to near Montgomery, AL, then southwest to include the southern half of Escambia County, in *AL*; Baldwin County south of I-10 and all of metro Mobile, then further southwest to a line paralleling the coast using Hattiesburg, MS as the inland marker (about 75-miles inland due north from the Gulf coastline), on to cover New Orleans. No other Pensacola Bay Area AM or FM station can equal its geographic reach.

Call in to get your questions answered by dialing 850.623.1330. It is a local call for everyone in Escambia (FL) and Santa Rosa counties.

Mr. Spears invites your calls anytime about the park by calling him at his office:
850.436.5655

Or email him at:
Espears@ci.pensacola.fl.us

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This week’s top news:

Mark July 13 on your calendar; the Top 4 candidates for the Master Developer’s position will take another step towards winning the job when they make their introductory presentations to the non-profit Community Maritime Park Associates (CMPA)Board of Trustees at 10 AM in Pensacola’s City Hall’s 2nd floor Conference Room.

The information below is from either the candidates’ web site, or their formal presentation in response to the Request For Qualifications. Not all candidates have a web site; in addition to a web site, you should visit the city’s site where all of them posted a PDF for review. The address for that is:
http://www.ci.pensacola.fl.us/live/pages.asp?pageID=6480

The descriptions below are quoted from their response PDFs on file as a Sunshine Act public record noted above.

Developer presentations are scheduled in reverse order of their rankings. Each will have a 40-minute presentation block, with a 20-minute block to answer questions from members of the Board of Trustees. As with everything involving the non-profit CMPA, this meeting is open to the public in accordance with Florida’s Government in the Sunshine Act.

The four firms, listed as they ranked one through four, are:

1) Land Capital Group (www.landcapital.com ) / 2 PM presentation start time

To see local properties handled by this organization, go to http://www.landcapital.com/TenantServices/Retail/search.aspx and then do a search for Florida properties.

Highlights include: Bayou & 9th Center ; Nine Mile Crossing ; and Fairfield Crossings . In addition to development, the company also has separate divisions for structured finance, asset management, and professional services.

2) Hammes Company (this firm has no web site – go to http://www.ci.pensacola.fl.us/live/pages.asp?pageID=6480 and then download their Acrobat PDF presentation entitled “Hammes Company – Master Developer RFQ Response.”) / 1 PM presentation start time

Highlights from their PDF include New Meadowlands Stadium; Ford Field in Detroit, MI; Fluno Center (executive education facility combining 40,000 sq. ft. academic environment with overnight accommodations through 100 guest rooms); The Shops at Pabst Farms (700,000+ sq. ft. regional shopping center); Ford Center in Detroit, MI (200,000 sq. ft. of office space, 140,000 sq. ft. of hospitality space, 25,000 sq. ft. of retail space integrated as part of the Ford Field and Ford Field Complex in downtown Detroit).

3) Carter Real Estate ( www.carterusa.com ) / 11 AM presentation start time

Highlights from their PDF presentation: Atlantic Station (138-acre environmental redevelopment of the Atlantic Steel Mill at the nexus of I-75 and I-85 in midtown Atlanta); Georgia Tech’s Bobby Dodd Football Stadium and Russ Chandler Baseball Stadium; Floyd County (GA) Baseball Stadium (Leased by Atlanta Braves for their minor league franchise, 22-acre site with 5,000-person capacity, 4,100 fixed-seats, 1,000-person berm seating.); USF Technology Center Research and Development Park (Start-up of 1.1-million sq. ft. project on 87 acres; provides facilities for research in all USF colleges including bioscience, satellite mapping and communications, oceanography, microelectronics.)

4) Trinity Capital Advisors ( www.trinityca.com ) / 10 AM presentation start time

Highlights from their web site include: Girard Square (4-million sq. ft. development in downtown Philadelphia); Cassford Corporate Center (125,000-sq. ft. among 5 buildings in Berwyn, PA); Hartefeld National Golf Course (includes full-service country club with 18-hole course); 502 W. Office center drive (50,000-sq. ft. office / lab building in Fort Washington, PA).

NOTE to our Friends: We will skip the emailing for next Tuesday, July 3 because of the adjacent Independence Day holiday. Our next Friends emailing is scheduled for July 10, and will focus upon the qualifications and progress made in selecting a full-time Executive Director of the non-profit CMPA.

Until then, “Thanks!” from all your friends who are Friends of Pensacola’s Vince Whibbs Sr. Community Maritime Park!

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