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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=
|type=
|location=[[Rhodes Building226 S. Palafox Pl]], Suite 401106<br/>41 North [[Jefferson StreetSeville Tower ]]
|membership=
|leader_title=Executive Director|leader_name=[[Franklin KimbroughWalker Wilson]]|board=[[Dan LozierMichael Carro ]], ''Chairman''<br/>[[Sandra WardJean Pierre N'Dione ]], ''Vice Chair''<br/>[[Corbett Davis, Jr.Nathan Hollar]], ''Treasurer''<br/>[[Blaise AdamsClaire Campbell]]<br/>[[Patti Sonnen]] <br/>[[County Commissioner Robert Bender, ex-officio]]<br/>[[Burney MerrillCity Councilmen Casey Jones, ex-officio]]|staff=32
|key_people=
|budget=$774776,290 559 (FY07 FY2022-2023 projected)<ref name="expansion">[http://www.downtownpensacola.com/DIB/QA.asp Expansion Q&A] - Official website</ref>
|website=[http://www.downtownpensacola.com/ downtownpensacola.com]
}}
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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===
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[[Category:Downtown Pensacola| ]] [[Category:Taxing authorities]]
