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[[Image:SevilleHarbour.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Seville Harbour office & restaurant complex]]
'''Seville Harbour''' (formerly called '''Harbour Village at Pitt Slip''') is a complex of offices, restaurants and a marina located at 600 South [[Barracks Street]]. It Also called '''[[Pitt's Slip]]''', it is situated on [[Pensacola Bay]] southwest of [[Bartram Park]] and north of the [[Port of Pensacola]]. The block was purchased by office complex, home to the [[City of PensacolaFish House]] in and [[1984Atlas Oyster House]] for $30restaurants,300<ref>is currently managed by the [[http://wwwMerrill Land Company]].escpaThe Seville Harbour marina is managed by the [[Marina Management Corp.org/details.asp?qAcctNum=154307500 Property appraiser's record]</ref> ], which also runs the [[Palafox Pier]] and was developed as a public-private venture[[Bahia Mar Marina]]s.
The office complex==Development==[[File:HarbourVillagePittSlipModel.jpg|thumb|right|Architect's model of Harbour Village with five buildings total.]]{{main|Pitt's Slip}}In [[1985]], home to after years of failed development attempts by the [[Fish HouseHarbour Corporation]] and others, the [[City of Pensacola]] hired Orlando-based Florida Sun International, which had recently built the marina at [[Port Royal]], to develop a simplified plan called "Harbour Village at Pitt Slip." [[Atlas Oyster HouseSharpe, Inc.]] restaurantsserved as project contractor. The first phase, budgeted at $2.5 million, included a $1 million, 106-slip marina with a floating pontoon dock system and two 10,000-square-foot buildings, was designed by architect [[Carter Quina]] and managed by .<ref>"Pitt Slip's Harbour Village on track." ''Pensacola News Journal'', March 30, 1986.</ref> When the complex opened in [[1986]], its initial anchor tenant was the floating [[Merrill Land CompanyGood Neighbor Restaurant]].
Later phases were planned to add three more buildings along the southern portion of the property, but this never reached fruition. The complex was renamed "Seville Harbour marina, formerly known as '''Pitt Slip''', is managed by the [[Marina Management Corp.]], which also runs the [[Palafox Pier]] and [[Bahia Mar Marina]]s" in {{date needed}}.
The land in the Seville Harbour block was rezoned by the [[Pensacola City Council]] on [[June 24]], [[1999]] to allow residential construction.<ref>"Council vote gives boost to waterfront condos." ''Pensacola News Journal'', June 25, 1999.</ref> Developers [[Ray Russenberger]], [[John Carr]] and [[Doug Halford]] planned to build 30 upscale condominiums on the site, but the project eventually fell through.{{fact}}
==See also==

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