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The '''Gulf Power Building''' is a five-story, 250,000 square foot office building located at One Energy Place (500 [[Bayfront Parkway]]) that serves as the main corporate headquarters for the [[Gulf Power Company]], which serves customers from Pensacola to Panama City. The company chose Pensacola for its headquarters, even though it is not central to the company's service territory. More than 400 employees work in the building, adding to the economic vitality of downtown Pensacola.

The building was constructed in two sections between July [[1985]] and March [[1987]]. The Gulf Power faced initial criticism investment was placed in an economically depressed area of building their headquarters on prime waterfront property in the historically sensitive [[Hawkshaw]] neighborhood. Before city and since its construction began, a team of [[UWF]] archaeologists led by Dr. [[Judy Bense]] excavated the site neighborhood has been transformed with two new parks (Veteran's Memorial Park and unearthed a wealth of artifacts from a Native American culture the Missing Childrens' Memorial) an upscale residential community (dubbed "[[Deptford]]"Aragon) that date back to around 150 [[Wikipedia:Common Era|CE]]and new restaurants.

Before construction began, Gulf Power worked with a team of [[UWF]] archaeologists to excavate the site for historical purposes. The restaurant team, led by Dr.Judy Bense, unearthed a wealth of artifacts from a Native American culture (dubbed "[[Deptford]]") that date back to around 150 [[Norma'sWikipedia:Common Era|CE]] has . The project was awarded a location on the first floor U.S. Department of the buildingInterior award for public/private partnership to help preserve historic sites.