Blog: 1,200 Area Jobs Announced Today -- But Not In Escambia County : NorthEscambia.com

Blog: 1,200 Area Jobs Announced Today -- But Not In Escambia County : NorthEscambia.com: "Another major economic development announcement took place this morning on the Gulf Coast, and, one again, the jobs were not in Escambia County.

A new call center in Mobile County near Saraland will employ about 1,200 people. Ryla Cooperation will begin hiring most of those people immediately and hopes to put them to work by June 1.

And the Mobile County Commission is not giving away the bank to lure the company. They are paying them just $87,500 a year for the next two years to locate in Mobile County.

Meanwhile in Escambia County, we continue to rely on the Pensacola Chamber of Commerce and grand dreams of a Maritime Park. The old build it (read: shell out millions) and they will come theory just does not cut it in today’s economic climate anymore. The Escambia commission has discussed moving away from the Pensacola Chamber to do the county’s economic development, but so far nothing."