{"id":370639,"date":"2026-08-13T20:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370639\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T20:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T20:00:19","slug":"job-growth-funds-doled-out-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/370639\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Growth Funds Doled Out \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Money-1024x683.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>                                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By The News Service of Florida <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday awarded $9 million for infrastructure improvements linked to the Birdon America shipbuilding initiative at the Port of Pensacola.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Birdon initiative carries a $275 million price tag to build a 400,000-square-foot advanced shipbuilding facility at the port, which is expected to create 2,000 jobs after the facility opens in late 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think the vast majority will probably be people from within this community,\u201d DeSantis said during an event at the port to announce the funding. \u201cAnd if you do the right things on the job training, leading into that pipeline, it\u2019s going to be a natural fit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The work is intended to support U.S. Navy and defense contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the project was awarded a $76 million Triumph Gulf Coast grant, which is money from a $2 billion settlement over the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill directed to eight Northwest Florida counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funding comes from the Job Growth Grant Fund, used by DeSantis to back infrastructure projects and workforce training programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The budget for the current fiscal year includes $40 million for the fund, with a requirement that half the new dollars be held in reserves until a new governor is seated in January.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1786651219_959_6d6a83762c62672642cf1fbc842a8c1afc1630aadc645705ee21fa300c8ea1c0.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-80 photo\" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" decoding=\"async\"\/>                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By The News Service of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday awarded $9 million for infrastructure improvements linked&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-370639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}