Business Archive

A new gas station may be coming to Navarre Parkway.

Plans for a Circle K convenience store with a gas canopy were submitted to Santa Rosa County in May. The planned location is 8510 Navarre Parkway.

In November 2025, a jury ruled in favor of plaintiffs in the Midway Water Crisis lawsuit.

The lawsuit was in response to reported damages caused by Midway Water System, Brown Construction of Northwest Florida and the City of Gulf Breeze for their roles in a 2021 incident where Brown Construction mistakenly connected a sewer line with a water line.

There is a new place to let your creative juices flow in Navarre!

Haven Art Studio, located at 9542 Navarre Parkway, recently held an open house event on May 16. Navarre Beach Area Chamber of Commerce was on hand for a ceremonial ribbon cutting. The business officially opens June 1.

A bowling alley is coming to Gulf Breeze.

Oops Alley of Pace plans to open a new bowling alley, arcade and restaurant in The Funplex of Gulf Breeze building.

A developer has submitted plans to build four apartment buildings on a property west of River Run Road in Navarre. The apartment complex will be known as The Palmettos at Navarre.

The new plan is an update to previously submitted project plans. The property spans two parcels totaling 9.688 acres.

Tiger Point may soon be home to a Taco Bell restaurant.

CEFCO, which has expanded rapidly into Northwest Florida in the past five years, has a new name: Casey’s.

The Texas based convenience store chain was sold to Casey’s, a Midwest-based chain started in Iowa, in an all-cash transaction for $1.145 billion in 2024.

It was a little more than a year ago that Morgan Foshee told her boss she was quitting.

Morgan had been working in recruiting for Adobe, the software company behind Photoshop and the Portable Document Format. While the job paid the bills, she had larger aspirations.

The proposed Wawa on the south side of Highway 98 across from Edgewood Drive is one step closer to coming to fruition. The property is currently being cleared.

If you have visited Publix or any of the other stores and restaurants in the Shoppes of Navarre Plaza in the past few months, you may have noticed a section of the parking lot roped off. Located in front of Pet Nation, the area cordoned off features a sunken in drainage basin and grate cover. The area is now under construction.