The Up Side Of the Pensacola Economy
February 5th, 2010 Categories: Pensacola Real Estate News
Baptist Health Care has recently secured financing for the construction of several more operating rooms and support facilities at its main location. These new additions will bring construction jobs, and eventually new clinical and support jobs, numbering more than a hundred, and possibly several hundred more before the expansion is complete. That kind of employment growth should have a measurable impact on the Pensacola Historic District neighborhoods of North Hill, which is just east of Baptist Hospital and East Hill.
The concentration of good paying jobs in those areas has already been fueling a steady increase in the number of downtown Pensacola entertainment locations and restaurants. The Will Call sports grill, Hopjacks Pizza, The Ragtime Grill, Blazzues Jazz and Blues Bar and others have opened in the last couple of years. They have been a welcome addition to New York Nicks, Intermissions, the Fish House restaurant, Atlas Oyster Bar, Hub Stacey’s and, the largest and oldest nightlife complex in downtown Pensacola, Seville Quarter (pictured above). The downtown area, that was normally quiet, and mostly uninhabited after dark only a few years ago, now has steady business late into the evening most nights of the week, and entertainment and food for almost any taste.