$250M terminal proposal for JaxPort to consider!!!

[JeffreyS]

The port is going to end up being Casey at the bat swinging for the fence leaving no joy in Jville.

[tufsu1]

The port is going to end up being Casey at the bat swinging for the fence leaving no joy in Jville.

that might turn out to be a good thing....I'd rather us do nothibng vs. dredge the river and watch the big ships go elsewhere!

[fsujax]

JaxPort announces deal with Disney to ship all it's merchandise heading to Orlando through Jacksonville. More details to come.

http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-06-19/story/disney-use-jacksonville-ports-ship-orlando-parks

[mtraininjax]

If they have available land on Blount Island, why not build a nice cruise terminal there?

Lest we ALL forget, cause we are aging, Blount Island is shared with the Marines, for their terminal, and the Marines would take the entire island, if offered to them, they move that much through their space and are always asking for more space. I think that JaxPort has an excellent tenant in the USMC and they probably have first right of refusal on the property.

And Jaxport is NOT whiffing at anything, they have a great aggregate business with Keystone, its amazing how quickly we forget, but that Keystone is growing its operations of hauling coal and other resources out of the port from its new Tallyrand location as well as other areas in NE Florida. There is a huge aggregate operation under the Dames Point Bridge, and I see it as only growing, especially as 295 is widened and expanded.

Had this new proposal offered to build on new space, which Jaxport could agree to with them, it might have been a nice project in the next 5-10 years, but Jaxport has a LOT on its plate now. Cruise Terminal, Hanjin development, Blount Island tenant, Aggregate expansion, that is a lot as well as fixing MILE POINT.

No does not mean no either, it just means Not right now. So I applaud Paul Anderson and the Jaxport folks for turning down deals, it means they are maintaining the plans in motion. Stay the course!