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PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – The plan to construct an enormous indoor sports activities advanced and emergency operations middle in Panama Metropolis Seashore is one other step nearer to occurring.
The buildings might be half of the present Publix Sports activities Park.
The Bay County Vacationer Growth Council authorised the corporate that can design the $45 million challenge.
The indoor sports activities advanced may have basketball courts and house for an alternate operations middle.
FEMA might be paying for a part of the constructing.
There will even be a separate constructing that might be used to assist the primary advanced on the identical property.
They are going to be situated beside A. Gary Walsingham Academy in PCB.
It’s all in an effort to serve the native residents in a time of disaster.
“No native taxpayers {dollars} are going to fund any a part of this challenge,” stated Dan Rowe, Govt Director of the Bay County Tourism Growth Council. “Final 12 months the TDC was in a position to put aside vacationer improvement tax collections that are paid by our in a single day company.”
Rowe stated they’ll attempt to attain out to Triumph Gulf Coast Inc. for funding, too.
It’s cash from damages from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
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