The Cummer's Olmsted Garden Restoration Underway

[Metro Jacksonville]

The Cummer's Olmsted Garden Restoration Underway



For the past 50 years, the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens has been committed to engaging and inspiring through the arts, gardens and education in Jacksonville. With a permanent collection of nearly 5,000 objects and historic gardens on a riverfront campus attracting 130,000 annual, the museum is moving forward with its next project. Now underway, the Olmsted Garden Restoration and Landscape Enhancement Project will restore the work of five nationally recognized pioneers of American landscape design and add a touch of class to Riverside Avenue.

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[Noone]

Very nice.
Phase 1. There is a new bulkhead on the river?

[PeeJayEss]

Very cool. Save room for the Riverwalk!

[avonjax]

An already amazing museum and gardens is about the become the "Crown Jewel" of Jacksonville.

[Noone]

That new Bulkhead will be a nice benefit. Checked it out when I was down at RAM. Is it all privately funded? Any plans for a floating dock? Will be a nice addition and another Destination activity.

[ubben]

Have the Riverwalk extend all the way to Memorial Park with a 'pier walk'. A long, stand-alone walkway 40 yards offshore that meanders over the river (separate from land--which would satisfy much of the property owners concerns and give a different 'over water' walk experience) in front of the Cummer all the way to Memorial Park.

[Noone]

The administration is looking at that sidewalk that leads straight to the river next to the new Bulkhead? Can anyone help out with the question is it Public or Private?

[Noone]

Is there a PUBLIC sidewalk next to the new BULKHEAD?
It's not a RAIL line. Anyone.

[Charles Hunter]

Might depend on if it is on Cummer's private property.

[Noone]

What if it's Public property.
Folio did a huge story a few years ago about all the waterfront Public Acess street ends. Greenwood Ave. was the story. The property owner took 10 or was it 20' of the Public Access with a brick wall. let's not forget Palmer Terrace on the Southside. Check out that gate and lock.

And of coarse Jacksonville's favorite District mix up. The Shipyards Pier. And a special thanks to Jimmy Midyette for pointing it out on another thread.

[Spence]

What is known regarding the plans surrounding support vs. opposition of a possible true extension of the Northbank Riverwalk to the end of Post St.?

From the culmination of stakeholder and neighbors' opinion, I just doubt it will ever reach Memorial Park directly.

 

[Noone]

Had lunch today and the gate was open to the Public or is it Private sidewalk and the new Bulkhead that was never before Waterways looks great. Why two levels to the top of the new Bulkhead?

[Noone]

Had lunch today and the gate was open to the Public or is it Private sidewalk and the new Bulkhead that was never before Waterways looks great. Why two levels to the top of the new Bulkhead?

Heard back and it's a PRIVATE sidewalk that happened to be open that day and next to the new Bulkhead that was never before Waterways. Looking forward to the pics in the next Urban Core Construction update. Thank you Tera Meeks and Dave Roman.