Editing Shalimar, Florida (section)

==Commerce==
Shalimar has one commercial artery, [[Florida State Road 85|Eglin Parkway]], and most business enterprises are located within a block of State Road 85. A mix of office parks (many occupied by military contractors), restaurants, convenience stores with fuel islands, a furniture store, a [[Fairfield Inn by Marriott]] hotel, and other assorted small firms comprise the short business corridor. For a time in the 1960s–1970s, the [[Central Intelligence Agency]] had "front" offices in Shalimar. This office may have been involved as a test project office for the [[Lockheed U-2]], with which [[Fort Walton Beach]] resident, World War II exile Polish pilot, and CIA officer, [[Ksawery Wyrożemski]] was involved, but which was a cover for CIA flight operations out of Duke Field.<ref>"Holm, Richard L., "A Plane Crash, Rescue, and Recovery - A Close Call in Africa", [[Center for the Study of Intelligence]], Historical Perspectives, Washington, D.C., Winter 1999-2000, footnote 2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070613112104/https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/winter99-00/art2.html]</ref> [[Okaloosa County]] Sheriff's offices are located in Shalimar. An Okaloosa County courthouse annex, erected in 1975 on land made available by the Meigs family, was razed in the last week of June 2014, after standing vacant for several years. Ground was broken on 29 September 2014 for a new $12 million 64,000 square foot 3-story Okaloosa County Administration Building on the former courthouse annex site. The new facility, under construction by Lord and Son, will house a variety of services, including a large space for County Commission meetings, Supervisor of Elections events, a gross management department, information systems, as well as facilities for the tax collector and supervisor of elections.<ref>Freeman, Danielle, "Breaking Ground On County Administration Building In Shalimar", ''[[WUWF|WUWF Public Media]]'', Pensacola, Florida, Tuesday September 30, 2014.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://wuwf.org/post/breaking-ground-county-administration-building-shalimar|title = Breaking Ground on County Administration Building in Shalimar|date = September 30, 2014}}</ref>