Housing and retail planned for long-vacant land in Regency area

[thelakelander]

By Roger Bull Wed, Jan 8, 2014 @ 4:07 pm | updated Thu, Jan 9, 2014 @ 9:04 am

More development is coming to the Regency area.
That large patch of sand just west of the Southside Connector could soon be sprouting homes and apartments.

Ten years ago it was called Kendall Town Center when developers got the OK for apartment complexes, hundreds of single-family homes and retail on both sides of the Southside Connector.

A Walmart and more retail, along with condominiums, were built on the east side of the highway, but little ever happened on the west. Some work was done to prepare for the apartments, but like so many projects at the time, that was it. The land eventually was foreclosed.

But last month, a new group of investors paid $6.5 million for about 125 acres.

Jim Kern, managing director of the partnership called Indigo Jax LLC, said he expects to start construction on the apartments and homes.

full article: http://members.jacksonville.com/business/2014-01-08/story/housing-and-retail-planned-long-vacant-land-regency-area

[coredumped]

Is this the same as this:
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,20395.msg359830.html#msg359830

[ProjectMaximus]

to me, the big takeaway is the speculation that Regency Square Mall has been sold!

[thelakelander]

Yes, that could be big news.

[Tacachale]

Hmm.

[coredumped]

This is great news. They've already got some (model?) homes up west of the connector. Regency needs to get sold and redeveloped asap to take advantage of this opportunity!

[river4340]

Is this the same as this:
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,20395.msg359830.html#msg359830

I think that's just the Lennar homes mentioned in the T-U story. Not the new development.

[spuwho]

It will be interesting to see who and what buys it. It was being marketed by Rockwood as a short sale.