According to Santa Rosa County, more than 50 businesses suffered some level of flood damage last week. Preliminary assessments completed by federal, state and local teams showed 32 businesses suffered major damage, 16 minor damage and 3 were inaccessible.
The Santa Rosa County Economic Development Office has put together a resource guide for those wanting to start a business in the county. The roughly 30-page brochure is available free from all five chambers of commerce in Santa Rosa County.
About 30 elected officials and business leaders attended a Florida Chamber of Commerce half-day conference in Pensacola April 18 highlighting the importance of trade and logistics to the region and the state. The conference was the third regional rollout for the chamber’s Trade & logistics Study 2.0.
The Navarre Beach Fishing Pier bar, Lagerheads on the Gulf, reopened April 19 after having been closed for about 10 days. County Administrator Hunter Walker and County Attorney Angie Jones advised the management team that their contract prohibited operating the bar without food being served.
After a complaint from William Phillips to Santa Rosa County Commission Chairman Jim Melvin, the county asked operators of the Navarre Beach Fishing Pier to close down a bar opened March 15 until the facility’s restaurant is up and running.
It has long been gospel among retailers that tobacco pulls so much business into stores, with smokers also picking up water, gum or a bag of chips that dumping it would be a sales killer.
A Gulf Breeze resident has designed an eco-friendly marketing tool that won’t leave a carbon footprint. However, the new branding platform will leave a different kind of print. That is, a sand print of a message made from a portable foam stamp roller.
Vonnie Tolbert owns property on Hwy. 87 South which he has leased for decades to Tom Thumb convenience stores. Tolbert says the company is not renewing their lease, which ends May 31.
