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[[Image:Hawshaw Eastside rendering.jpg|right|thumb|220px|Artist's rendering of the project]]
'''Hawkshaw Eastside''' is a $20 million development that will occupy a two-acre parcel of formerly-public land near the [[Gulf Powerbuilding]] building at [[Ninth Avenue ]] and [[Romana Street]] (opposite [[Aragon Court]]). It will include 94 residential condominiums, ranging in price from affordable to upscale, along with 16,000 sq ft of commercial space in four three-story buildings. The plan was chosen over four competing concepts on August 31, 2006 by the [[Pensacola City Council]] in its role as the [[Community Redevelopment Agency]].
The principals of Hawkshaw Eastside, Inc., which will pay paid the city $1.8 million for the land, are [[Paul Snider]], [[Jim Cronley]], [[Bill Whitesell]] and [[Jim Reeves]]. The plan was developed by [[Bullock-Tice Associates]], [[Terhaar-Cronley]] and [[Whitesell-Green]].
Prices for some units are expected to start at around $125,000, and the developers are obligated to sell at least 25 percent of the units below $200,000. Reeves told a [[WEAR]] news team, "The idea is to try to get our workforce firemen, policemen, school teachers to move back downtown, where they've moved away from." However, critics say that most units will be priced well beyond the "workforce" budget for which the project was chosen, and that $125,000 for a 550 sq ft unit is hardly "affordable" anyway.
