The City Council of Panama City Beach created the Panama City Beach Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) in 2000. The Council adopted a resolution and created the Front Beach Road (FBR) CRA in June 2001. Construction on the FBR CRA is ongoing.

Community Redevelopment Master Plan

Updates

FBR CRA Q4 2023 Update

FBR CRA Q2 2023 Update 

FBR CRA Q4 2022 Update

FBR CRA Q3 2022 Update

PCB CRA Update 4.28.22

CRA Meeting 5.20.22

Front Beach Road Community Redevelopment Plan

The original Redevelopment Plan is a lengthy document that goes back to the creation of the CRA in 2001. It is an historical document that explains the rationale behind the establishment of the CRA and includes photographs from 2001.

The Front Beach Road CRA provides a framework for redevelopment of infrastructures within the CRA for the next 30 years. The Plan was adopted by the City Council in August 2001.

The Plan recommends the enhancement of approximately 19.8 miles of existing roadways within the Front Beach Road CRA.

Cost elements include:

• Widening streets to three and four lanes
• Enhancing roadway lighting, paving, striping and turn lanes
• Adding landscaped medians
• Adding new signage
• Adding hardscape, landscaping and sidewalks
• Adding drainage ponds
• Undergrounding of all utilities.

Streets within the Redevelopment Area identified for these type improvements include: 

• Alf Coleman Road
• Churchwell Drive
• Clara Avenue
• Cobb Road
• Front Beach Road
• Hills Road
• Hutchison Boulevard
• Nautilus Street
• North Thomas Drive
• Panama City Beach Parkway (The South Arnold Road/U.S. 98 intersection only)
• Powell Adams Road
• Richard Jackson Boulevard
• South Arnold Road
• South Thomas Drive

The Front Beach Road CRA Plan contains three long-term primary objectives:

1. Pedestrian, Parking and Transportation Improvements
    a. Enhanced and interconnected network of right-of-way
    b. Improved pedestrian movement
    c. Improved additional parking
    d. Improved ingress/egress and evacuation routes
    e. Upgraded stormwater management
    f.  Undergrounding of utilities

2. Enhance Beach Access and Related Parking
    a. Enhance existing beach access points
    b. Create new access points
    c. Add new parking areas supporting beach access points throughout corridor

3. Plan Funding and Financing
    a. Create and maintain efficient, practical, equitable funding and financing to properly implement the Plan and its projects
    b. Utilizing tax increment revenues, non-ad valorem assessment revenue, bonds, other public instruments, grants, public/private partnerships and other sources of funding