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Florida Budget Includes $2.5 Million For The Bluffs Industrial Site In Cantonment
June 3, 2021
The Bluffs project in Cantonment will receive $2.5 million from Florida’s $101.5 billion 2021-2022 budget signed Wednesday by Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Announced in late 2015, The Bluffs was envisioned as the home of up to 60 new industrial and manufacturing companies. The 6,000 acre master-planned development area includes about 1,700 acres of land that can be developed in an area east of Highway 29 bordered by the Escambia River to the east, Becks Lake Road near International Paper to the north, and the University of West Florida to the south.
The $2.5 million in new funding for the state will pay for an entrance drive and upgrades at the multi-leg intersection of Chemstrand Road, Old Chemstrand Road, Emerald Coast Utilities Authority’s entrance drive, and Ascend Performance Materials entrance drives to the plant, and to the land adjacent to the properties. The funds will be used for planning, engineering, design and construction.
The Bluffs is predicted to support 11,000 direct and indirect jobs with total wages of $7 billion.
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10 Responses to “Florida Budget Includes $2.5 Million For The Bluffs Industrial Site In Cantonment”
@ rufus lowgun, you are so very right. Did y’all know that the county had another so called industrial park in Escambia county? It flopped and still flops.the place I’m talking about is the “Commerce Park” on highway 29 in Cantonment near quintet road.
..when ECUA bought that property years ago , I was told by one official, that they were going to provide parking areas and hiking. Trails , etc..I evened drove one official thru the property , Spanish Mill creek , and the place where the Old Spainish trail crosses that creek..This is pristine property..from one hill , you can look across the Escambia River basin and see 6 watertowers in Pace , and Air Products across the bay..
This is the last pristine property left left in Southern Escambia county..The county spent millions of dollars on the property on US 29 which has only a few businesses there..
ECUA owns about 2000 acres within the proposed site, a public utility involved in real estate development, my, the times are a changing.
What happened to the central commerce park on hwy 29 north of cantonment, it was supposed to be money maker years ago when they built it.
It only has 3-4 customers in there now, smh.
Ellison has been at capacity until recently. Samsung has moved to Mexico
What a waste that project could be!
A waste of good taxpayer money……..
It will most likely flood every time the
river get out of it banks…….
This project smell like dead fish…………..
I need some of that money…
I smell money changing hands along the line. I wonder if anyone we all know owns a large part of this land?
With this industrial park in the works, why do we need need more industrial park space on the former Navy landing field sight by Navy Federal? Is there lots of demand for this type of zoning? Has Ellyson Field industrial park EVER been at capacity? Something doesn’t smell right about all this “industrial park” space that comes up every time a parcel of land becomes available.