Bass Pro Shops opening in St. Johns County

[I-10east]

Apparel? ......you were there for the wrong reason.

Who would have known that outdoor apparel selection isn't a big part of a large outdoorsman stores criteria...

[thelakelander]

Bass Pro Shops in 'early design'

A spokeswoman for Bass Pro Shops said the company continues "to be very excited" about its chosen site in St. Johns County, but did not elaborate about the plans or a timeline.

A St. Johns County Commission approval last week could spark the project, but the company hasn't committed to a timetable even though it said in 2012 it could be open by now.

"The store is still in the early design stages, and as such, no new information is available at this time," said spokeswoman Katie Mitchell, communications manager for Springfield, Mo.-based Bass Pro Shops Group.

Bass Pro Shops, which develops Outdoor World centers of merchandise and activities, announced Dec. 21, 2012, that it would open a 104,000-square-foot Outdoor World store in St. Johns County along Interstate 95 at the new Florida 9B interchange.

Full article: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=544883

[thelakelander]

Gate unveils 1,600-acre Durbin Park development, including Bass Pro Shops

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=547842

[vicupstate]

Plans also show a Gate convenience store.

Hopefully one just an urban-oriented as the one going in Brooklyn. 

[spuwho]

Gate unveils 1,600-acre Durbin Park development, including Bass Pro Shops

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=547842

There just isnt enough density to support 3 major retail centers, all of them in overlapping markets and thanks to 295 and 795, each 10 minutes from the other. They are all chasing the same dollars.

Someone has to lose. Regional planning, whats that?

[thelakelander]

^Ultimately, some older areas of Jax's Southside and Nocatee's commercial prospects probably lose the most. This particular area will boom more than it is already, when SR 9B is completed. New centers will serve people currently spending their dollars in Duval. Then compared to Nocatee, Durbin Creek wins hands down for regional accessibility. So new retailers will be more attracted to a site with direct access to two interstates, that's still within a stone's throw of Nocatee's residential development.

[lowlyplanner]

Is St. Johns County subsidizing the Bass Pro somehow?

I thought they only went where they would get $ from the local city or county...

[thelakelander]

^Not sure what SJC is throwing in but indirectly, they're getting an interstate extended through the property with their own interchange...all paid with public money.....

[Tacachale]

Bass Pro Shops doesn't open up anywhere that doesn't subsidize them. That's why they're in St. Johns instead of Jacksonville, which is what they originally proposed. The city wouldn't cough up money for a big box camping store, so they found a less savvy neighboring county that would.

[finehoe]

The city wouldn't cough up money for a big box camping store

But a big bucks billionaire, that's a different story. 

[cline]

The city wouldn't cough up money for a big box camping store

But a big bucks billionaire, that's a different story. 

^+1000

[FlaBoy]

Bass Pro Shops is going to Gainesville without incentives from what I understand.

What is the rationale for extending SR 9B? Gate wanted it through their property? 

[thelakelander]

Evidently, the plan is to develop twice as much new retail square footage as what's in and around SJTC. If they're successful, this area probably becomes the suburban retail district that eventually replaces SJTC as the dominant retail cluster in the region.

[coredumped]

Ugh, what's the point to this sprawl and abandon cycle we're in here. Jacksonville isn't big enough to support Regency AND sjtc, and now this?

Fare thee well property values....

[Snaketoz]

Ugh, what's the point to this sprawl and abandon cycle we're in here. Jacksonville isn't big enough to support Regency AND sjtc, and now this?

Fare thee well property values....

I think Regency was doomed long before SJTC.  Long before that The Avenues pulled much of the spending away from RS.