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{{Infobox Organization
|name=Downtown Improvement Board
|image=DowntownPensacolaLogo.png
|image_border=
|size=288px
|caption=
|mission=
|motto="What a life!"
|formation=[[1972]]
|extinction=
|leader_title=Director
|leader_name=[[Franklin Kimbrough]]
|board=[[Dan LozierBurney Merrill]], ''Chairman''<br/>[[Sandra WardEd Carson]], ''Vice Chair''<br/>[[Corbett Davis, Jr.Deborah Dunlap]], Treasure''Treasurer''<br/>[[Blaise AdamsBob Van Slyke]]<br/>[[Burney MerrillMark A. Bednar]]
|staff=3
|key_people=
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The 44-block area of the DIB is an uneven collection of commercial properties centered roughly around [[Palafox Street]], bounded to the north by [[Belmont Street|Belmont]] and [[Wright Street]]s and to the south by [[Lexington Plaza]]. The east-west axis is centered along [[Garden Street]] as far east as [[Alcaniz Street|Alcaniz]] and as far west as [[A Street]].
==Projects==
===Downtown parking===
The Downtown Parking Management District strives to provide plentiful, accessible, low cost and free parking throughout Downtown Pensacola. With 1,543 off-street spaces and 6,983 on-street spaces, you will find 8,526 parking spots dispersed in convenient locations throughout downtown.
===Retail strategy===
On [[December 6]], [[2007]] the DIB unveiled a study by Fort Lauderdale-based firm [http://www.marketingdevelopments.com/ Marketing Developments] which laid out a two-year roadmap to improve the downtown retail environment. Among the recommendations:<ref>[http://www.downtownpensacola.com/Business/RetailStrategy.pdf Retail strategy]</ref><ref>"Downtown businesses laud retail report." ''Pensacola News Journal'', December 17, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://ricksblog.biz/?p=2658 HarborTown?] Rick's Blog, December 7, 2007.</ref>
*Change one-way streets to two-way.
*Encourage business owners to keep later, more consistent hours of operation.
*Hold weekend markets on the [[Palafox Street]] median.
*Market downtown area under the name "HarborTown."
===Expansion efforts===
[[Image:DIBProposedExpansion.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Boundaries of the proposed DIB expansion]]
The exact boundaries of the expansion proposal were altered several times to omit residential neighborhoods, instead focusing on four commercial areas:
*Area 1 – east of [[Alcaniz Street]] and south of the [[CSX Railroad]], including the [[Crowne Plaza Grand Hotel]], [[Gulf Power Company]] and future developments around the [[Aragon Court]] neighborhood, which was itself excluded
*Area 2 – commercial areas adjacent to [[Seville Square]], south of [[Main Street]] and east of [[Jefferson Street]] (including [[Seville Harbor]]), and the southeastern end of [[Palafox Street]], including [[Palafox Pier]]
*Area 3 – southwest of existing DIB boundaries to [[Clubbs Street]], including the [[Trillium]] and [[Main Street Sewage Treatment Plant]] properties
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[[Category:Downtown Pensacola| ]] [[Category:Taxing authorities]]
