Jacksonville Needs an outdoor concert venue

[mrmet]

Sant Augustine Amphitheatre thrives with a small venue and Jax misses all the summer outdooe shows. We need a 16k seat venue and the Jax beach amph needs to do something more then twice a year.

[billy]

The number and prominence of the shows in Saint Augustine has been impressive in recent years.
How about a venue as part of a park redevelopment at the Shipyards?

[urbanlibertarian]

Or at the fairgrounds after the Fair moves west?

[Ocklawaha]

COULD WE?



Be cool as hell if we could do something with 6-8 square blocks of LaVilla or Brooklyn. If we're not going to see massive high rise development on the Riverside corridor in Brooklyn, why not a park that wraps around the Skyway maintenance facility and hugs the bank of a landscaped Mc Coy's Creek. What a first impression for people coming south by train! Add water taxi from the jungle-park-through the tunnels- to the urban downtown, connected with both the terminal and the scheduled venues and OMG. This would play well with my idea of streetcar running from Bay to Myrtle to Forest to Riverside (south)... The old business district of Myrtle just south of the Subway could then be refocused into a Jacksonville version of a Bourbon Street gas lamp playground.


Of course a Jacksonville version of the Byzantine Hippodrome might just embarrass Madison Square Gardens or Wolftrap.


OCKLAWAHA

[Coolyfett]

What
Is Metropolitan Park?

[fieldafm]

Sant Augustine Amphitheatre thrives with a small venue and Jax misses all the summer outdooe shows. We need a 16k seat venue and the Jax beach amph needs to do something more then twice a year.

MetPark suffers b/c its not promoted correctly, plain and simple.  It needs a dedicated management company that will promote it as a viable venue.  That is the only difference b/w MetroPark and the SA Ampitheatre(they have awesome promoters).  SAA is actually a pretty bad place to listen to a concert.  The accoustics absolutely suck at the place.

You must not go out to the beach much.  There were 5 events at the Jax Beach Ampitheatre in the month of April alone.