Escambia County has received another offer to purchase part of the Navy Outlying Field 8 property on Nine Mile Road, west of the Navy Federal Credit Union. Black Water Development Company of Birmingham has offered 1.1 million dollars for 15 acres with frontage on Nine Mile Road with plans to construct a commercial center that will have  retail shops, small offices and restaurants. Escambia County acquired OLF-8 in a land swap with the U.S. Navy for property in Santa Rosa County. If the county decides to sell the property it is legally obligated to declare the acreage surplus and sell to the highest bidder.