Category: Beach Renourishment

Lots of visitors here this week as you’d expect for the long holiday weekend and the first weekend of scallop season. The weather has been great and everyone has been out on the beach or out on the water. If market activity is any indication, no one gave a thought ...

Big weekend shaping up as the 4th of July visitors begin pouring in. Big day on Tuesday, July 1, too, my birthday, which Gulf County always celebrates by officially opening Scallop Season for the summer. I’m hearing it should be another good year so I hope you’ll be able to ...

Warm and breezy week with beach renourishment progressing rapidly and ahead of schedule. It’s amazing to see how wide our beautiful beaches are becoming once again and the sand is every bit as white and powdery as the original. They’re working the Cape Breezes area where I live and each ...

Spring is the season of renewal and growth and unfortunately that’s exactly what our inventory did this week after holding steady for the past three. It grew nearly 2% with a total of 466 (up from 458), with 174 houses (vs. 171) and 292 lots (vs. 287). There was a ...

Beach restoration is well underway, beginning near Eagle Harbor in the park and working its way steadily southward, already nearing Secluded Dunes. With as long as this project has been in planning you would think the county would have already notified beachfront owners of what they needed to do with ...

Sorry for the delay in getting this week’s market wrap up done but the weather was just so fine this weekend that I took two vacation days and spent the entire time outside in the fresh air and sunshine loving being on the Cape. So now it’s Monday and back ...

March has certainly come in like a lion this week, with over three inches of rain and strong winds, gusting to 35 mph as I write. Let’s see if there’s any chance our real estate market is showing any sign of possibly roaring back into action. Still no significant change ...

Please take a minute today to address the following – by Thursday morning it will be too late! Yesterday, Tuesday, the Planning Development Review Board met and reviewed Ashwood’s request to increase their density in Ovation by roughly 100 lots and building duplexes rather than the single family homes originally ...

Lots of activity around the Cape this week: construction on phase two of the bike path is underway, road crews are just about finished widening the road and shoulder between the Tradin’ Post and Stumphole, the beach renourishment equipment has been moved into place up in the state park, and ...

I’ve been hearing a lot of different things about the status of the beach renourishment program so I decided to stop by the the offices of Manson Construction this afternoon to get the facts straight from the contractor. I met with the project manager, Billy House, who told me they ...

It’s a Christmas miracle – we finally have all our permitting in hand for beach renourishment. Received the following update from the Beach Renourishment committee this evening: Yesterday we received our final approved permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. As a result, County Administrator Don Butler was able ...

Halleleujah – the last hurdle to acquiring DEP’s signature on our beach renourishment permitting was cleared yesterday afternoon, Monday, December 3rd, when a Notice of Dismissal of Petition for Formal Administrative Hearing was signed by the petitioners, Michael and Kate O’Brian-Nicholson and White Sand of Navarre, LLC. DEP said our ...