Sunday, January 01, 2006

Five Flags Inn Update

Five Flags Inn Update: January 2006
It is now January 2006, fifteen monhts after Hurricane Ivan. We found an update in the Pensacola News Journal. For many of us Five Flags Inn was the vacation spot to look forward to all year. People from all over the US and the world search to find out what happened to Five Flags Inn. People search for Baker and Mal. For a long time after Ivan the Five Flags Inn Web site stayed online, frozen in time.

Hotels that were operational before Ivan and are now being razed, or have been razed, include the Holiday Inn, Five Flags Inn, Beachside Resort and Conference Center, and Clarion Suites.
Holiday Inn replacement
One of the biggest questions in the Pensacola Beach hotel picture is what will replace the Holiday Inn.

Marilyn Hess, chairman of the board of American Fidelity, which owns the several hotels in the Pensacola area, including the Dunes...

Published - January, 1, 2006
Beach Hotels Returning
Pensacola News Journal
Carlton Proctor

The biggest question across the US and the world is what will happen with Five Flags Inn. People land here searching for the status, wanting an update, hoping that Baker will be back to make coffee for us in the morning. Baker, we miss you.

Five Flags Inn

Owner Baker Clark said he has not decided what to do with the property.

The Five Flags building has been razed, and the Gulf-front property is vacant.

"Right now we're still looking at rebuilding," Clark said. "But I don't know if it will be like it was."

Clark said the "economics" of rebuilding, and the fact the property is below, or seaward, of the coastal construction setback line established by the
Department of Environmental Regulation are hampering efforts to get construction under way.

"After Ivan when we were talking about rebuilding, construction costs were at $110 per square foot," said Clark. "Now we're talking about $250 per square foot."

Published - January, 1, 2006
Beach hotels returning
Pensacola News Journal
Carlton Proctor

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