Mayor floats marine research project

Pensacola, Fla., Mayor Ashton Hayward wants to convert a barely-used warehouse at the Port of Pensacola into a marine research facility. The warehouse is currently not under lease, and the building is being used for general storage. Hayward wants to redevelop the site in collaboration with the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition, and “possibly the University of West Florida and Florida Fish and Wildlife.” IHMC, a non-profit research facility, has not held discussions with Hayward, according to spokesman Randy Hammer. (Source: Pensacola News Journal 05/19/17) Gulf Coast Note: Hammer is communications director for the IHMC; president emeritus of the Studer Community Institute; and former executive editor of the Pensacola News Journal.