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Hooray! It’s the 30A Songwriters Festival and this year, as always, it boasts an incredible line-up of performers and venues. If you’re lucky enough to be here in the Panama City Beach/30A/Destin area from January 11-15th you absolutely have to make plans to attend. This year there are 23 stages along Scenic Highway 30A offering every musical genre. The 30A Songwriters Festival headquarters is located just West of Seaside at…

Hooray! Panama City Beach Economy On Upswing! A new shopping center is going to be built across from Simon Properties Pier Park Development. This is great news for Panama City Beach. Wal-Mart is also building a Super Store adjacent to Pier Park so this is going to be a busy area and can only mean investors think this area is ready to grow. The new shopping center, called Pier Park…

  watch?v=EqcaPbWYfrk&hd=1 click on link above for video   It was a chilly day last week when I stopped down at the beach on the West End to check out the beach re-nourishment.  Beach Re-nourishment is accomplished by a large barge named Marge (not really) that sits off shore and dredges sand from the bottom of the ocean and pumps it through large pipes to the beach where it is…

Jeez! No kidding, Einstein! Foreclosures Hurt Your Health, Study Says Daily Real Estate News | Friday, September 02, 2011 The higher the foreclosure rates, the more risks to your community’s health, posits a new study. The increasing number of foreclosures in Arizona, California, Florida, and New Jersey were found to coincide with a rise of stress-related health problems in those states, finds new research by Janet Currie of Princeton University…