Pier Park - Panama City Beach, FL

Panama City Beach, FL - Panama City visitors will be pleased and excited when they arrive to discover the areas' newest addition, Pier Park. Pier Park is an open-air experience with specialty retailers, unique dining options and an array of entertainment choices. For the influx of tourists that visit the area every year, as well as an anticipated population growth of 40 percent, the park will attract individual, as well as family patronage.

Pier Park is an open-air experience with specialty retailers, unique dining options and an array of entertainment choices.

Some restaurants feature rooftop dining on Front Beach with breathtaking views of the Gulf of Mexico. Nearly 100 retailers, many of them new to the market, provide an impressive mix of stores targeting both the mainstream shopper and the bargain hunter. Some of the Restaurants that are featured are LongHorn Steakhouse, Back Porch Seafood House, Bootleg Barbeque and Guglielmo's Italian Restaurant. For the casual diner, new-to-market restaurants such as Hofbrau Beer Garden and Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville are just two of several new eateries. For entertainment on those rainy beach days or lazy nights, Pier Park offers The Grand 16 Theatres, which features stadium seating and digital sound, as well as a specialty café and a game room.

Pier Park is positioned in the heart of Panama City Beach with easy access to the beach communities and the area's top office, residential and entertainment neighborhoods. It is the centerpiece of the area, surrounded by forty-eight thousand lodging units including twenty thousand hotel rooms and a population of 658,000 households within 100 miles of Panama City Beach. The time for this facility is now, and it will grow with the future growth of the area.

Panama City locals are thrilled to have all these wonderful options in one location. It is a sign of the times that Panama City is growing with the number of people relocating to this area and opting for a more relaxing lifestyle. The area currently draws five hundred and forty seven million dollars a year in tourist trade from travelers arriving by air and by auto. Pier Park saw the need in this market for more choices with the new Panama City-Bay County International Airport, scheduled to open in 2010. This 4,000-acre facility with greater accessibility for national and international travelers, will be the first international airport in the United States since Denver International Airport opened in 1995.

Located on Front Beach Road in the heart of Panama City Beach, Pier Park is ideally located to serve the area's growing residential community, exploding condo market, and over 7 million tourists visiting each year.

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