Business View Civil and Municipal l January 2023

135 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 CI T Y OF COCOA BEACH, FLORIDA our capping program- environmental protection along our shoreline of our golf course. The county gave us the other $24 million,” she reports. “Those are partnerships that we just wouldn’t know what to do without. They’ve been an integral part of what we’ve done here in Cocoa Beach.” Of course, a city like Cocoa Beach couldn’t survive without the valuable partners in the hospitality industry, the hotels and motels, the restaurants, and all the many businesses that support tourism. Mayor Malik asserts that the Space Coast EDC is another important relationship. He conveys, “They are one of the strongest EDCs in the state. We were written off after the shuttle program ended, and what we are seeing now is literally two billionaires, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, going head-to-head 15 minutes away from Cocoa Beach, winning billions of dollars worth of contracts. That market is a trillion-dollar market valuation. I mean, they’re talking about 300 launches Follow us @JacobsConnects | jacobs.com Always pushing beyond.

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