Many who own property near the Live Oak Boat Ramp in the Holley community don’t want a vacant lot to be cleared and paved. parking lot at the Live Oak Boat Ramp.
Priton LLC, a home-manufacturing company code-named Project Breeze by the Santa Rosa Economic Development Office, officially has arrived. Priton already has hired a start-up staff of nine and plans to add 200 more jobs at its Santa Rosa Industrial Park location this year.
“How unfair!” exclaimed Kim Macarthy, former Main Street Milton president, regarding a local non-profit organization receiving a 25-year lease from the Santa Rosa County Commission for a 5,000-square-foot historic building on Highway 90 in downtown Milton for a rate of only $10 per month and without a request for proposal process.
The Santa Rosa County Board of Commissioners are planning to sell the current Navarre Community Center, located at 1917 Navarre School Blvd., and pursue a larger facility to accommodate more people.“ It appears to me to be surplus in our hands,” Commissioner Jim Melvin said. “We should put it up for bids and see what it is worth on the market.
Santa Rosa County will receive more than $1.7 million in federal funding for the repair of 4.1 miles of damage along Navarre Beach from Tropical Storm Debby.
Santa Rosa County could become the first county in the state of Florida designated as a SAFE Community through the National Safety Council. Evaluators are meeting today with local coordinators of the pursuit, led by county plans chief for emergency management Daniel Hahn.