Hendricks Plaza to link Southbank and San Marco

[thelakelander]

More redevelopment coming to Hendricks Avenue...

By Karen Brune Mathis, Managing Editor
Another link of Hendricks Avenue in Jacksonville's San Marco neighborhood is slated for renovations.

Owner Rettner Hendricks Realty LLC, which bought 1620-1636 Hendricks Ave. over the past year, wants to invest at least $300,000 in façade renovations for the storefronts, now referred to as Hendricks Plaza.

Plans filed with the city show that Coastal Reconstruction Inc. and Thomas Duke Architect will rework the front façade and replace the storefront windows and doors.

The storefronts are another link along Hendricks Avenue from the Southbank riverfront to the San Marco neighborhood retail center.

full article: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=541194

[Captain Zissou]

This isn't really reaching out any farther towards the southbank, but it is building a density of complementing uses between the railroad tracks and Landon along Hendricks. It's still very positive news, and I hope that this will help provide some momentum to move north of the tracks in the near future

[jcjohnpaint]

I might be mistaken, but the structure already exists/ occupied, but is getting a facelift?

[jcjohnpaint]

Across from Lo Nap

[ProjectMaximus]

Yeah I was expecting something more when I read the headline, but this is certainly a big positive nevertheless. Looks like it will look nicer, probably create better street interaction, and bring a restaurant to the one empty storefront. Expecting to see plenty more of this in the next couple years.

[ProjectMaximus]

what are their options for creating restaurant parking?

[Tacachale]

I might be mistaken, but the structure already exists/ occupied, but is getting a facelift?

Should be a good project and just the kind of thing we need - relatively simple street-level improvements to our existing building fabric.

I also wonder how they'll solve the parking issue. There's a surface lot behind the bank on Lasalle and some staff parking around the other corner on Landon; hopefully they can work something out with that. I don't see many other options, other than to lease space from the El Potro building, which seems unlikely, or buying some more expensive real estate just to level it for parking, which would be counterproductive.

[jaxlore]

This will be nice...There is a bunch of parking directly behind the Regions bank in the church parking lot. Not sure if that's fully for public use but we've been parking there for years.

[acme54321]

This will be nice...There is a bunch of parking directly behind the Regions bank in the church parking lot. Not sure if that's fully for public use but we've been parking there for years.

Yep, as long as the bank is closed I park there. 

I don't think this area will get quite the attention to people parking on side streets either as in Avondale.  At least not for a while.

[thelakelander]

Different demographic. There seems to be more rental properties in that part of San Marco.

[hightowerlover]

I had to Google street view this location, I don't think I have ever noticed it.  Looks like a bunch for lease signs in the immediate area.  Maybe a facelift can help bring some life into this area, but it seems a little far off the beaten path to be viable.

[acme54321]

Different demographic. There seems to be more rental properties in that part of San Marco.

Exactly, the area to the west of Hendricks over there are a lot of apartment buildings and rentals.  They pee in their own yards

[acme54321]

I had to Google street view this location, I don't think I have ever noticed it.  Looks like a bunch for lease signs in the immediate area.  Maybe a facelift can help bring some life into this area, but it seems a little far off the beaten path to be viable.

Far off of your beaten path maybe, but there is a lot of activity along that stretch, and more popping up all the time.

[Tacachale]

It's three blocks from San Marco Square on one of the major streets through San Marco, in an area that has seen a ton of new development in the last few years, and more to come. I think the only major concern for a restaurant there is the parking situation.

[thelakelander]

It's actually an emerging district. If the DIA is smart, they'll make sure whatever they want to do for the Southbank actually connects and benefits from what's taking place on Hendricks and San Marco Boulevard.