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Escambia County has several offers on the table for part or all of the property, including an unnamed business FloridaWest claims will bring jobs.
County commissioners unanimously voted to move ahead with the $42.5 million sale of the OLF-8 property to developer Chad ...
Escambia County's OLF 8 property in Beulah is drawing interest from more buyers looking to build businesses. The county now has two letters of intent from “mystery” companies offering to buy ...
Before the commission meets Thursday, though, here’s a primer on the background of OLF-8 and the main issues at play. OLF-8 is a 630-acre county-owned property in Beulah. It was originally owned ...
Navy Federal Credit Union bought 98 acres of OLF 8 for $4.2 million, with the commitment to bring an additional 300 jobs. Escambia County may finally consider accepting an offer on the OLF 8 site ...
Tri-W Development is back with an offer to buy OLF 8 in Beulah from Escambia County. The company is once again offering $42.5 million for all 540 acres of the property known as Navy Outlying Field 8.
Assets like that can bring others to what we call OLF 8, for the active as well as passive outdoor recreation and the views we have grown to love – even from our cars. That is the kind of ...
You have to give Escambia Commission Chairman Mike Kohler credit for moving the long stalled Outlying Field 8 (OLF 8) land sale further in one day than we had in two years. Nothing was set in ...
In Beulah, our semi-rural way of life is disappearing. Our views of wide-open sunsets, wetlands and woods, grazing livestock and an easy drive to town are disappearing with random development.
Escambia County commissioners will be making a huge mistake if they choose to move forward with selling 25 acres in the northwest corner of Outlying Landing Field 8 (OLF 8) to a mystery company.