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Town Allocates Funds To Spruce Up Century Business Center
April 27, 2015
The Town of Century is sprucing up their local business incubator, as plans will soon breathe new life into an old facility that’s sat empty and unused for years.
The former school complex on Pond Street was known as the “Habitat for Opportunity Building”, a rather awkward name, that the town council recently voted to rename the “Century Business Center” after approving a new strategic plan authored by the University of West Florida’s Haas Center.
Space in the center will be offered at $1 per year to the top two finishers in the Century Business Challenge. And an additional area will be used by an Americorp volunteer working for the town and by the Haas Center, and another office could be shared by community non-profits providing regular services such as the United Way or Northwest Florida Legal Services.
The town council recently voted to purchase carpet – an estimated cost of $3,000 to $3,500 – to be installed before business workshops are offered there beginning early next month by the Small Business Development Center at UWF. The council also voted to purchases desks and chairs for the facility, and inmate labor is being used by the town to spruce up around the Century Business Center.
Pictured: A room inside the Century Business Center (below). NorthEscambia.com file photos, click to enlarge.
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2 Responses to “Town Allocates Funds To Spruce Up Century Business Center”
Please spruce up the road through Century on Highway 29. I agree with CLC but I think they mean State Highway 29. See what can be done. The house that got hit by the car, the car wash next to a paint and body, even a coat of paint on it would look better. A dead tree in front of Burger King and a fence falling over in the back, Even the weeds are tall around the Gulf Power sub station. especially spruce up the area around the Welcome to Florida and Century sign.
I think the funds would be better spent cleaning up the riff raff from Century or improving communities especially those that are on 31. A new business center means nothing if you can’t draw new business to the area because of the reputation the city has.
I drove through Century yesterday on my way to Brewton and saw 3 young females walking on the sidewalk down 31. All 3 females were dressed with very tight clothing(what clothing they had on). My teenagers thought they were prostitutes. I also saw an older gentleman, stumbling down the middle of the road toward the corner liquor store. I realize that lady liberty still stands in the harbor but I’m a nobody driving through Century. Imagine what business owners read in the newspapers about shootings,robberies and other criminal offenses or what they see when they drive through town.
The city looks like a city that has been around for a century. It has gas stations,a church, liquor store, Whataburger and a run down Burger King, a pharmacy, people selling things out of a rundown building, mobile homes that are in desperate need of repair,a used car dealer,a building(advertising it’s out of business. For the last 3 yrs at least) next to the park that looks horrible with hand painted(faded paint as if that really matters) and a car wash that doesnt even work. Even the sheriffs office seems old.