Pensacola CRA

Key Planning Documents

Community Redevelopment (CRA) Plan

The Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) is responsible for developing and implementing a Community Redevelopment Plan that addresses the unique needs of the targeted area. The plan, as required by FS 163.360, includes the overall goals for redevelopment in the area, as well as identifying the types of projects planned for the area.

Examples of traditional projects include: streetscapes and roadway improvements, building renovations, new building construction, flood control initiatives, water and sewer improvements, parking lots and garages, neighborhood parks, sidewalks and street tree plantings. The plan can also include community policing innovations and redevelopment incentives such as grants and loans for such things as façade improvements, signs, and structural improvements. The redevelopment plan is a living document that can be updated to meet the changing needs within the Community Redevelopment Area.

Community Redevelopment Plan, 1989, and Subsequent Amendments:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4

CRA Plan Update (2009)

The projects and elements of our plan have been consistently implemented since adoption in 1984 and a number of small area or task specific plans, studies and reports have been adopted as plan amendments. However, the last comprehensive update of the Urban Core Redevelopment Plan was undertaken in 1989 and incorporated long-range projects and objectives to revitalize the CRA.

A Request for Qualifications (RFQ 08-044 and Addendum 1) was issued for planning consultants to prepare a Plan Update for the Community Redevelopment Area (CRA) and an overwhelming response was received with 25 firms submitting by the due date of September 12, 2008. The Committee's final ranking of five (5) firms following oral presentations was as follows: Looney Ricks Kiss Architects, Inc. (LRK), Wallace Roberts & Todd, LLC., Cooper Carry, Inc., EDAW, Inc. and IBI Group, Inc. (Click firm name for a pdf of the firm's written submittal) The CRA approved the contract terms for LRK as presented on January 20, 2009. (Click here for 1-20-09 CRA Slide Presentation)

The members of the review committee are CRA Chair, Jewel Cannada-Wynn, Bank of Pensacola Vice President, Rodney Jackson, RBG Bank President, Blaise Adams, Regions Bank Vice President, Jim Donatelli, Lowes Region 23, Van Mansker, Downtown Improvement Board Executive Director, Kim Kimbrough and City of Pensacola Community Development Director, Thaddeus Cohen.

The following additional plans are utilized in the planning and implementation of the Community Redevelopment Plan:

Pensacola Waterfront Development Plan, 2000

Belmont DeVilliers Land Use Plan, 2004
(link to website with pdf documents)

Pensacola Historic District Master Plan, 2004
(link to website with pdf documents)

Downtown and CRA Residential Market Potential, 2008 and 2004
(link to website with pdf documents)