There is no shortage of entertainment and fun to be had in Uptown. Annual festivals, events, and performances display some of Pensacola’s greatest musicians, food, artists, shows, and vendors of the area. Residents benefit from an abundance of resources, from Pensacola State College to the area’s best hospitals!
Pensacola’s heritage includes a mix of many different cultures, making it the ideal place to learn, grow, work, and play. The variety of opportunities available in Uptown Pensacola attracts people from all backgrounds to the region. From military personnel to snowbirds, the area is rich in life, commerce, and southern culture.
The Uptown District 2 area of Pensacola has effectively become the city’s largest medical hub centered around 9th Ave, Brent Ln, & Davis Hwy. Several major hospitals, specialty clinics, and medical office campuses cluster there creating a regional healthcare corridor serving northwest Florida and South Alabama. Healthcare and financial services dominate employment in Escambia County. This is why the medical sector of Sacred Heart, Baptist, West Florida, & Nemours Children’s Clinic, forms one of the largest employment clusters in the region. To truly understand the scope of impact one must consider the following data.
Employees per center:
Sacred Heart partnered with Nemours Children’s Clinic – 6,440+
HCA West Florida Hospital – 1,000+
Baptist Hospital – 4,500+
Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola in Pensacola, Florida, is a full-service hospital with 24/7 emergency care, a level I trauma center, the region’s only Pediatric Trauma & Referral Center, the area’s only nationally certified Comprehensive Stroke Center, & was named a Top 15 health system list by Fortune/PINC AI.
With over 120 pediatric specialists in 30 pediatric specialties, Studer Family Children’s Hospital is Northwest Florida’s only children’s hospital. More than 100 additional clinicians and staff are now employed by Nemours Children’s and will practice at Studer Family Children’s Hospital as well as in the outpatient setting as part of this new strategic collaboration.
Baptist Health Care is the area’s only locally based, not-for-profit health care system whose sole purpose is to help families connect the dots between prevention, lifestyle and physician-directed care
Uptown is accessible for all modes of transportation with free, no hassle parking, great bike lanes on all major state roads including Bayou, Airport, Creighton, most of 9th Ave & 12th Ave, Davis Hwy, with most housing is withing walking distance to Pensacola’s primary commercial & educational core, alongside the thriving medical industry. Uptown is unique in that it has the only movie theater in the City of Pensacola & a Super Walmart. Uptown is not dying. It is very much alive and thriving. A good example of great successful retrofit is when the old K-Mart located on Airport went out of business and sat ideal for years. It was purchased by Cordova Square and converted into 4 stores that now house Fresh Market, Marshals, DWA shores and Ulta. The parking lot is always full.
Though it is the city’s urban core, Uptown has been dismissed as “suburbia”. While it is true that Uptown has many parking lots that appear to be underutilized, the parking lots offer many great opportunities for creativity and retrofitting. Ellen Dunham Jones who wrote the book “Retrofitting Suburbia”, was a keynote speaker at Civcon. In her famous book she talks about the many ways suburbia can be retrofitted, including greening up parking lots and addressing the issue of affordable housing.
Our Schools
A Recent shift in leadership has locals talking about Holm as a school on the rise. Parents are say Holm Elementary is becoming a great school system with great teachers. Home to approximately 443 to 480 students, Holm is deserving of support within our community.
Workman Middle School enrolls 608 to 666 students per year. Through a challenging international education program, J.H. Workman students will become active, compassionate, lifelong learners. Boasting a challenging and engaging academic program that encourages international-mindedness and respect for diversity.
The mission of Booker T. Washington High School is to provide a quality education in a safe, supportive environment so that all students can achieve success.
Booker T. Washington High School is a secondary school currently located in Pensacola, Florida, and is part of the Escambia County School District. serving approximately 1,676 to 1,691 students. The school was named after the African-American education pioneer, Booker Taliaferro Washington. He was an educator, author, and orator during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mr. Washington, having been born into slavery, played a strong role in fighting racial discrimination. After the Civil War he attended college at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, which is now Hampton University.
For more than three decades, he served as the first principal of Tuskegee University, where he developed the concept of practical education as a means for social advancement, advocating for vocational training as opposed to a classical academic education. He supported learning trades, obtaining land, and gaining economic self-determination for African Americans. Due to his ideas of advocacy for economic cooperation between white and black communities, he became an advisor to Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, where he was able to further represent the African American community.
As the oldest and largest college in the Panhandle, PSC serves traditional and non-traditional students in Northwest Florida and Southern Alabama. During its first year, 136 students enrolled at the college. Current enrollment is about 26,000 students and it’s nationally ranked in the Top One Percent in affordable tuition. Pensacola State College is a premier, student-friendly college that competes with the best – offering more than 100 programs, state-of-the-art resources, and a stellar faculty.
