Bay County Anti-Patterns

An anti-pattern is something that does things wrong, yet is attractive for some reason (profitable or easy in the short term, but dysfunctional, wasteful of resources, unsustainable, unhealthy in the long term). It also keeps re-appearing.

Large scale construction that happened right before, during, or after the real estate bubble should be viewed with a skeptics eye since inflation skews the actual direction of the market and causes poor investments.  The building above (FSU Panama City Campus) exemplifies an anti-pattern.

Deer Point Elementary looks more like a jail than a school, and the surrounding fence is not even in the picture.  I will eventually take a picture on my own that truly captures its punitive facade.

Newly built government buildings make the people entering them feel insignificant.  The Bay County Library and Administration Center look more like the Parthenon.  

Guantanamo of Panama City Beach... The sheer enormity of this building eclipses everything around it.  The design of this condo is all about fitting as many tourists as possible inside of it.  Atrocious!

Above displays the Panama City Beach sprawl right on top of our most precious asset.

Pier Park brought to you by easy credit!  AMERICAN RETAIL...

...currently in distress, I mean progress.  Bought to you by St. Joe Company, Great Northwest, Gulf Power, and Great American Contractors.