I first visited Port St. Joe in the Florida Panhandle after my grandparents retired to Panama City Beach in the mid-’70s. We took a day trip to check out what was then a mill town on St. Joseph Bay.

The St. Joe Company and Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. have formed a joint venture to explore development options for the former Port St. Joe paper mill site in Gulf County, Florida. The venture has ...

It seems to be working in Port St. Joe, partly because the old is now part of the new. ... the resurrected city went industrial with the opening of the St. Joe Co.’s paper mill in 1938.

Perhaps no place has felt the change of the last decade more than the former paper mill town of Port of St. Joe, where 3.7 miles of U.S. 98 - the main east to west beachfront corridor through the ...

Until just a little over 20 years ago a paper mill in Port St. Joe was the lifeblood of the community. When it closed 500 jobs went with it.

PORT ST. JOE, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) ... It proposed a plan to build a liquified natural gas export terminal at the old paper mill site. During the public meeting, ...

PORT ST. JOE, Fla. - The St. Joe Co. rocked the real estate and investment worlds in 1996 when it announced it was quitting the paper business to develop its vast Florida Panhandle land holdings ...

Adds Davis, the pastor: “For me, LNG represents a destruction of what we have overcome from the paper mill.” The North Port St. Joe residents are working to build opposition to the LNG plant ...

For years St. Joe's paper mill dumped its waste _ pine bark and potentially hazardous boiler ash _ in a swampy area across the railroad tracks from downtown Port St. Joe. In the 1950s, St. Joe ...

Unemployment in Port St. Joe skyrocketed to 20 percent in the early 2000s after the mill shut down. In 2009, the chemical plant also closed, costing 77 more jobs, according to news reports.

The St. Joe Paper Company, as it was called at the time, ... After the mill closed, many North Port St. Joe residents were left with few options, and the community languished.