If You "Re"-Build It, They Will Come: The Recovery and Rebuilding of Northwest Florida

Authors

  • Martin J. Homyak University of West Florida
  • C. E. Wynn Teasley University of West Florida

Keywords:

Rebuild Northwest Florida, recovery efforts, hurricane effects, public and private partnership

Abstract

Daily newspaper headlines read "Ivan Roars Ashore", "Nightmare", and "Devastating" in the Pensacola News Journal this past September (Pensacola News Journal, 16, 17, & 18 September 2004). Hurricane Ivan struck Northwest Florida and Lower Alabama as a Category 3 hurricane with winds of 140 mph and wind gusts of 100 mph hitting downtown Pensacola. Ivan’s effects will linger for years, even decades, after physically reshaping much of Florida s Escambia and Santa Rosa counties and the lives of the people who live there. Enter Rebuild Northwest Florida (REBUILD), a public/private partnership created to coordinate need-based recovery efforts for these two counties. What can be accomplished by an organization such as this? Will REBUILD be able to meet its mission? What does the future hold for this organization? 

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Published

2022-01-26

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 2 (2006)

Section

Cases

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