City of Pensacola

Project

Site / Project Name	Community Maritime Park Cleanup
Brownfield Site Address	300 Blk West Main Street, Pensacola, Florida, 32502
Site Owner	City of Pensacola
Clear Title	Yes
Owner Contaminator	No
Former Use	Frisco rail yard and port
Land Use	Currently site of the Blue Wahoos AA Baseball stadium, an amphitheater, playground, office buildings, public promenade, unfinished day use marina and excursion docks, and vacant lands for lease. A waterfront restaurant is adjacent to the west and further west the future site of a Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Fish Hatchery. To the east is a cove and condominium/housing development. The actual site lay to the south adjacent to the Park on submerged lands. It is the historic location of the Frisco rail yard docks which collapsed over the past 100 years onto the bay bottom, which is City owned land. The Park is part of the Maritime Heritage Trail, and has won several awards for best ball park in the country, Urban Land Institute Open Space Award, it is a prior Brownfield clean up site from the former Chevron terminal.
Infrastructure	The site is adjacent to the Community Maritime Park described above. It sits on the waterfront in downtown Pensacola, on a rapidly redeveloping east - west corridor, Main Street. It is across the street from City Hall with many food and entertainment venues including the 8,000 seat Bay Center and 1,600 seat Saenger Theater, in close proximity. The site itself is adjacent to the entrance navigation channel into the Port of Pensacola, which is four blocks east and the Joe Patti and Williams Seafood fleet and shipyard channel and complex to the west. I-110 spur terminates downtown nearby along with the southern terminus of US Hwy 29, two blocks east. US Highways 98 and 90 are just six and 14 blocks, respectively, to the north. An active rail line is 10 blocks to the west. Pensacola International Airport is 7 miles northeast.
Assessment Level	Phase 2 The site is submerged lands immediately south of the Community Maritime Park. Phase II assessment activities were conducted in the Fall of 2016 to evaluate the presence of wood preserving contaminants in the bay bottom sediments and presence of creosote preserved pilings collapsed on the bay bottom posing both an environmental and navigational hazard. Over 500 pilings were found using subsurface side scan sonar and other debris including a steel crane. Bottom sediments contaminated with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with lesser amounts of phenolics and other nitrogen, sulfur and oxygenated compounds were detected above Florida Sediment Quality Assessment Guidelines.
Contaminants	See above
Cleanup Program	No
Remediation	No
Developer	Yes City of Pensacola
Future Use	Mixed Use Commercial excursion docks and tourism access to demonstration tall ships along with access to a day use marina for fishing tournements and water access to downtown and the Maritime Park.
Financing Tools: Federal Programs	Deepwater Horizon Settlement Funds, Federal Highway Administration, EPA Brownfields, EDA,
Financing Tools: State Programs	Tax Increment Financing, Bonding, Qualified Target Industry Incentives,
Financing Tools: Funds Committed	Extensive local public and private funds ($40M) have been invested to date. The city also built a marina breakwater for $2M to start the day use marina. Additional grant funds are being sought at this time from Fish and Wildlife Boating Recreation Program to complete the marina construction.
Challenges	Financing
Technical Assistance	Not sure We want a strategy on how what is available and how to stack resources in order to accomplish the bay bottom clean up and marina development.