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Commission seeks CRA and DIB support to stabilize historic Panama City grammar school, directs staff to draft preservation ordinance
Summary
The commission asked the Downtown Improvement Board and the CRA to consider financing to stabilize the historic Panama City grammar school and directed staff to draft a local historic‑preservation ordinance, voting 5–0 on both motions.
Panama City commissioners on Sept. 9 voted unanimously to ask the Downtown Improvement Board and the Community Redevelopment Agency to consider financing or partnership to stabilize and preserve the historic Panama City grammar school (a downtown masonry building the commission was told has been deteriorating and exposed to trespass) and to authorize staff to explore loan mechanisms that would be secured by a lien on the property.
Staff and commissioners described the structure as a significant historic…
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