Twenty years ago this week, Hurricane Ivan made landfall near Gulf Shores, just west of the Florida-Alabama state line. The Category 3 hurricane was one of the most destructive ever for Escambia and Santa Rosa counties in the western Panhandle.
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Ironically, it was Ivan’s damage to the old Main Street Wastewater Treatment Plant in downtown Pensacola that finally put the facility’s relocation on a fast track and sparked the reshaping of the city’s waterfront…