From Dec. 15-25, there will be no charge to park in a metered parking space on downtown Pensacola streets, the Downtown Improvement Board announced this week. Parking Amnesty Week, first celebrated in 2015, emerged from a desire to highlight the diversity of downtown shops, galleries, restaurants and attractions and to encourage “shopping locally” during the holidays.

The "All I Want" $1,000 Holiday Giveaway Returns!

The Downtown Improvement Board (DIB) is providing a way for the community to donate to a good cause during October through a unique parking partnership with the American Cancer Society. DIB has implemented a new function to DIB-managed pay machines that enables visitors to donate directly to ACS—with or without purchasing a parking session. And DIB Parking Ambassadors will sport pink hats all month long in their own show of support. 

Friends of Downtown brought the Umbrella Sky Festival to Downtown Pensacola in 2017. This year, in an artistic collaboration with Artel Gallery, the organization will launch another unique public art project and this time they’re planning something even bigger. “Fire & Rain,” a 9,500 sq. ft. sculpture of wire and colorful strands of mylar, will float high in the air above Intendencia Street, winding down and skipping across Palafox Street and ending at the marble columns of Artel Gallery. The unique sculpture is being constructed by local team Razor’s Edge Design and is funded by a grant from Arts, Culture and Education (ACE). 
 

The City of Pensacola is on a mission to make Pensacola a more bicycle- and pedestrian-friendly city, and recently changed a four-lane section downtown along Palafox Street between Cervantes and Wright into a two-lane, multi-modal roadway. The existing outside lanes were converted into bike lanes, and approximately 40 new parking spaces were added along North Palafox Street. The section of Palafox between Wright and Garden streets is now a “share-road” that allows both motorists and bicyclists to share the travel lane.