Economic Development
Pensacola is unapologetically pro-business.
Because of it, businesses find a community that embraces them, supports them, and celebrates their successes. That’s why there has never been a more exciting, historic time for Pensacola than today.
Here, research laboratories have established international fame, entrepreneurs are giving birth to innovations, and businesspeople are joining hands to create new momentum for progress.
In support of this, the Pensacola Bay Area Chamber of Commerce is executing strategic plans to boost our community’s economy even more, building on our area’s special assets:
- A highly efficient, customer-friendly airport
- A growing and diversified economy
- Some of the nation’s best hospitals and health care
- Low cost of living and short commutes
- #36 best high school in the U.S.
- 27 public schools ranked with “A” or “B”
- Seven colleges and universities
- Highly educated workforce of military retirees
- Growing, vibrant, and distinctive downtown
- Thriving, quality cultural and arts scene
- 343 days of sunshine and average yearly temperature of 77 degrees
- 402,000 metro residents
- 52 miles of coastline, including 8 miles of National Seashore beaches
- An ambitious waterfront project and downtown improvement plan
- Historic Pensacola Village, intact English Colonial area with Florida’s oldest church and cemetery
- One of the world’s best aviation museums
- A culture of research and innovation: Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, Naval Aerospace Research Lab, Center for Cryptology, Andrews Institute, and Air Force Water Survival Training Unit
- More than 400 underwater shipwrecks, including the scuttled 888-foot battleship that’s the world’s largest manmade reef
Pensacola offers these unmatchable assets to existing and new businesses, because they are the threads that bind together the fabric of our unique community, and they are the unique assets on which our future is being built.