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Escambia County Abandons Portion Of Pace Parkway That’s Actually Part Of International Paper
March 14, 2022
When International Paper in Cantonment began to consider improvements to a road on their sprawling facility, they found out it was actually a public road belonging to Escambia County.
Officially, the road was part of Pace Parkway but commonly called Scale House Road. It runs off Highway 29 into the mill south of the traffic light at Tree Street (map below). The roadway has been used, improved, and maintained by IP for many years to receive and weigh raw materials, according to the county. The roadway has commercial scales, railroad infrastructure and overhead industrial equipment.
The Escambia County Commission has voted to vacate rights and abandon the roadway, essentially signing it over to International Paper.
NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge. The portion of Pace Parkway that was abandoned by Escambia County is indicated in yellow below, click to enlarge.
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5 Responses to “Escambia County Abandons Portion Of Pace Parkway That’s Actually Part Of International Paper”
Why are we giving It to them. Why not sell it to them or trade it for some land to.be made into a park?
Donald, I hope you’re being sarcastic.
Is that the road just south of the light that the trucks come out of to make their right on to Hwy 29. If it is there is not stop sign and the drivers never stop and just turn out in front of everybody. I have had them turn right in front of me several times and had to slam on the brakes because of them.
Good…it’s the right thing to do–makes sense. IP will care for it since they use it every day…..IP is a good community partner
May as well give it away……it would take 10 years of cones and barricades to get it fixed.