{"id":2061732,"date":"2025-10-01T10:02:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2061732"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T10:02:57","slug":"heres-the-restaurants-and-entertainment-venues-being-pitched-for-maritime-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/heres-the-restaurants-and-entertainment-venues-being-pitched-for-maritime-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s the restaurants and entertainment venues being pitched for Maritime Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Trader Joe’s, indoor sky diving, a premium movie theater, and a Ruth\u2019s Chris Steak House are all among the types of outlets developers are pitching to the city of Pensacola for the next project at Community Maritime Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Inspired Communities of Florida, also known as The Dawson Company, is par<\/span>tnering with Corporate Contractors Inc., owned by\u00a0Wisconsin billionaire businesswoman Diane Hendricks,\u00a0and E Smith Advisors, the real estate development company owned by Emmitt Smith, to pitch the project at Lot No. 4.<\/p>\n

The group is already developing the Reverb by Hard Rock Hotel<\/a>\u00a0and Rythm Lofts at Lot No. 5, and that project is scheduled to begin construction next year.<\/p>\n

Overall, the entire complex would be a seven-floor building that would have 190,100 square feet of retail space, 119 residential units, 39,100 square feet of office space, and a 1,300-space parking garage, according to the presentation. Nearly half of the building would be dedicated to a parking garage, featuring two floors of underground parking.<\/p>\n

The parking garage would also seamlessly connect to the parking deck being built for the Reverb Hotel and apartment development next door.<\/p>\n

All of the businesses mentioned in the 23-page presentation sent to the city in September are just conceptual to give an idea of the types of businesses the developers want to recruit to their proposed \u201ceatertainment\u201d venue.<\/p>\n

Tamara Bowens, president and chief operating officer for The Dawson Company, told the News Journal that they believe there is a market in Pensacola for these types of businesses.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have done several market studies that show that there is a need for these types of businesses within Pensacola, in particular in the downtown area,\u201d Bowens said. \u201cThis is definitely a data-back strategy that we’re going after in trying to bring these tenants to Pensacola.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of that effort, the developers have brought in The McGarey Group to find businesses that will want to lease space in the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re well versed in doing these types of developments,\u201d Bowens said. \u201cThey’ve done them in small towns, medium-sized towns, and big cities. So they have the breadth and depth of experience to bring these same types of tenants to Pensacola.\u201d<\/p>\n

The News Journal reported on the details of the proposal last week<\/a>, but here\u2019s a closer look at all of the concepts pitched to the city:<\/p>\n

Entertainment concepts<\/h2>\n