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just to make mention of the old company office building
[[Image:GulfPowerBuilding.jpg|thumb|right|The Gulf Power building]]
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The '''Gulf Power Building''' is a five-story, 250,000 square foot office building at One Energy Place (500 [[Bayfront Parkway]]) that serves as the main corporate headquarters for the [[Gulf Power Company]], which serves customers across Northwest Florida from Pensacola the [[Perdido River]] to Panama Citythe [[Apalachicola River]]. 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 company's offices were formerly located in a multi-story building constructed in the 1950s on [[Pace Boulevard]] just north of the intersection of [[Garden Street]]/[[Navy Boulevard]]. The new building was constructed in two sections between July [[1985]] and March [[1987]]. The Gulf Power investment was placed in an economically depressed area of the city and since its construction, the neighborhood has been transformed with two new parks (Veteran's Memorial Park and the Missing Childrens' Memorial) an upscale residential community (Aragon) and new restaurants.
Before construction began, Gulf Power worked with a team of [[UWF]] archaeologists to excavate the site for historical purposes. The team, led by Dr.Judy Bense, unearthed a wealth of artifacts from a Native American culture (dubbed "[[Deptford]]") that date back to around 150 [[Wikipedia:Common Era|CE]]. The project was awarded a U.S. Department of Interior award for public/private partnership to help preserve historic sites.
