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The following are excerpts from the Pensacola Area Chamber of Commerce website. 

Economic Development 

Pensacola is unapologetically pro-business. 

Because of it, businesses find a community that embraces them, supports them, and celebrates their successes. That’s why there has never been a more exciting, historic time for Pensacola than today. 

Here, research laboratories have established international fame, entrepreneurs are giving birth to innovations, and businesspeople are joining hands to create new momentum for progress.  

In support of this, the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce is executing strategic plans to boost our community’s economy even more, building on our area’s special assets: 

A highly efficient, customer-friendly airport
A growing and diversified economy  

Some of the nation’s best hospitals and health care  

Low cost of living and short commutes #36 best high school in the U.S.  

27 public schools ranked with “A” or “B” Seven colleges and universities  

Highly educated workforce of military retirees  

Growing, vibrant, and distinctive downtown  

Thriving, quality cultural and arts scene  

343 days of sunshine and average yearly
temperature of 77 degrees  

402,000 metro residents  

52 miles of coastline, including 8 miles of National Seashore beaches  

An ambitious waterfront project and downtown improvement plan  

Historic Pensacola Village, intact English Colonial area with Florida’s oldest church and cemetery  

One of the world’s best aviation museums  

A culture of research and innovation: Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Naval Aerospace Research Lab, Center for Cryptology, Andrews Institute, and Air Force Water Survival Training Unit  

More than 400 underwater shipwrecks, including the scuttled 888-foot battleship that’s the world’s largest manmade reef
 

Pensacola offers these unmatchable assets to existing and new businesses, because they are the threads that bind together the fabric of our unique community, and they are the unique assets on which our future is being built.  

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Our beaches are the perfect metaphor for Pensacola – everything is more than meets the eye. Standing on Florida’s whitest sand beaches, you’re standing on quartz sand that was on the Appalachian Mountains thousands of years ago before it was washed by mountain rivers to the Pensacola coast.  

The names of our streets are a mixture of Spanish and English, attesting to our city’s special place in American history. Parade grounds for Spanish forts became English gardens and are now special public places.  

Southern sensibilities merge with various cultural influences to produce a sophisticated downtown, a place where innovation and beach cultures co-exist, and where water and whimsy blend to produce the area’s unique personality. 

In other words, Pensacola is a deep dive. That’s why it attracts people in search of adventure and self-discovery, whether it’s at the more than 400 underwater shipwrecks, including the world’s largest manmade reef, at archaeological digs of America’s first European settlements, at the meticulous precision of Blue Angel maneuvers, and in an array of water sports. 

In truth, the people of Pensacola often define themselves by their relationships with water – whether it is gulf, bay, or river – and the outdoors – championship golf courses, tennis facilities, fishing, horseback riding, boating, hiking, and biking. 

But there’s even more. The abundance and quality of culture, arts, museums, sports, and concerts in Pensacola exceed what you find in much larger cities. There’s our symphony, opera, theater, and ballet, not to mention our art and historic museums. There are our sports teams in hockey and baseball, and there are the headlining national acts that regularly appear at our state-of-the-art civic center.  

From our days as the first settlement in the U.S. in 1559, Pensacola has been multi-cultural. That tradition is reflected today in Spanish-era architecture in the Seville Square Historic District, the Colonial English village of Historic Pensacola Village including Florida’s oldest church, and a lively downtown known for its shops and restaurants. There’s a reason that Pensacola has been called the only “real downtown” along the beach of the Gulf Coast.  

In downtown, Pensacola is building a spectacular 30-acre, $70 million Maritime Park on the waterfront, and it will feature a 3,500-seat multi-purpose stadium, a conference center, a marine museum, offices, restaurants, and plenty of green space where you can do nothing but bask in the breeze and soak up the sound of the water.  

The best way to learn about Pensacola is to experience it, but don’t take our word for it. Here’s other proof: 

“Best Cities To Live” – CNN/Money Magazine, 2007
“Boomtown” – Inc. Magazine, 2007
“Best Southeastern College,” University of West Florida – Princeton Review  

Pensacola is casual but its attitude is ambitious, offering opportunities for each person to create rituals that reinvent, refresh, and renew. Best of all, the constant juxtaposition in our city inspires our special sense of place and gives each of us the chance to customize our own lives.
 

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