Living Atlas
The Living Atlas is a public, evidence-backed memory of consequential public decisions in Pensacola and Escambia County, Florida — what was promised, what is actually enforceable, and what changed, preserved so no one gets to remember it differently. Every claim carries a citation to a primary document; open questions are held open, not concluded.
The decisions
The cluster's first seed (2020): a grant that grew 3.3× across five amendments while its jobs metrics became a research-spending metric.
Executed · mid-performance$8.5M bought an America's Cup headquarters that now builds Navy-drone wings — lawfully under a lease whose fine print permitted almost anything from day one.
Built · pivoted to defenseThe workforce bet: 175 marine-composites certificates by 2034, owed by the cleanest obligor in the record — a named public university board.
Term sheet executed (non-binding until GAA)The harbor's biggest bet — $76M for 2,000 jobs — is still entirely a promise: nothing binding is signed, and the entity that would owe the clawback has no documented backer.
PRE-EXECUTION — nothing binding yetProof a "closed" decision can keep drawing public money: $7.97M of FSTED dock works for American Magic, awarded 2026.
Awarded · under constructionFull statuses and next dates: the Docket · missing public records anyone can request: Wanted Documents · every citation: the Source Registry.