Palafox Place is a major commercial area in downtown Pensacola, Florida, United States.
Before and after the Civil War (1861-1865), Pensacola's deepwater harbor was a port of domestic and foreign shipping for the Gulf Coast, and Palafox Street was the commercial hub for much of the Florida Panhandle.
Office buildings, banks, hotels, restaurants, cafes, churches, grocery stores, and movie theaters, along with numerous small businesses, lined Palafox and adjacent streets from the 1920s to the 1960s, when it was the center of community and commercial life.
[4] Major national retailers located on South Palafox Street included Sears, Roebuck, J. C. Penney, Woolworth's, and a Walgreens drug store, among others.
In the mid-1950s, Town and Country Plaza, the first large, modern, open-air shopping center, was built several miles north of downtown.