Urban Construction Update - January 2014

[Metro Jacksonville]

Urban Construction Update - January 2014



Major construction projects have returned to the landscape of Jacksonville's urban core. Find out where (and more) as we take a brief look at the status of various developments under construction in and around Downtown Jacksonville during the month of January.

Read More: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2014-jan-urban-construction-update-january-2014

[Noone]

Thanks for the update. Any truth to the rumor of a kayak launch at the new $15,000,000 Southbank Riverwalk redo next to MOSH? How cool would that be.

[ben says]

Re: 20: is anyone sure the old Caribbean Connection is being turned into a bar? I saw a construction notice on the door and it said "improvements for sandwich shop"...

Re: #40: that picture is taking from the wrong angle. Chase is moving in where Wilson & Wilson currently is. Wilson & Wilson is then moving to the corner shown in the picture. Wilson & Wilson once owned the building but sold it to Chase.

[tufsu1]

The Downtown Cigar Lounge is now open

[PeeJayEss]

Silver Cow is also open. Also, the 2nd screen at Sunray is open and showing films.

[PeeJayEss]

Also, the Southbank Riverwalk has progressed considerably. I haven't been over there in a while, but the actual reconstruction was supposed to start in December. I know the demo is well on its way.
http://www.jaxfountain.com/ has some decent updates through October.

[L.P. Hovercraft]

I hope Silver Cow installs some awnings and a nice sign--If I hadn't read it was open here, I would probably walk right past the place now without going in thinking it was just part of one of the stores next door.

[ben says]

I hope Silver Cow installs some awnings and a nice sign--If I hadn't read it was open here, I would probably walk right past the place now without going in thinking it was just part of one of the stores next door.

I walked by the place and still couldn't tell they were open!

[Charles Hunter]

I hope Silver Cow installs some awnings and a nice sign--If I hadn't read it was open here, I would probably walk right past the place now without going in thinking it was just part of one of the stores next door.

I walked by the place and still couldn't tell they were open!

Maybe there's a secret knock you have to use, followed by the password?

[JUGrad]

With regards to the parking garage going in next to the SunTrust Building...  Does anyone know what the current occupancy rate of the building is?  Just curious as to how far away they are from 60% occupancy to add the retail component of the garage. 

[simms3]

^^^Wha??  They're building an entire garage for a small ~300,000 SF building that isn't even 60% full and likely has no prospects?  Even with other partially filled garages within 1-2 blocks???  Not to mention, they don't have to build the useless floorplate retail in the garage until the building is 60% full?

I guess I knew that, but reminders of how backwards the city actually is are never fun to bear.

Speaking of, thanks for the update, but this is really a boring update.  There appears to hardly be anything actually under construction in the core, aside from the apartments in Brooklyn, one of which is wrapping up and the other of which is just now finally after so long getting going (both of which are sadly novel for Jax but boring now, yawn, because the same building has already been built in Charlotte's core 20x over, etc).  The YMCA - why is that taking so long?

I'm seeing with my own eyes where I live whole 55 story towers get built to completion in less time that it takes for Pulp Juice to finish in Avondale, or actually any of these projects.  They are ALL moving more slowly than any projects I've seen anywhere.  I'm seeing more tumbleweeds in these pictures than people or construction equipment.

[urbanlibertarian]

Didn't the Haydon Burns Library remodeling just have a symbolic groundbreaking?

[copperfiend]

I hope Silver Cow installs some awnings and a nice sign--If I hadn't read it was open here, I would probably walk right past the place now without going in thinking it was just part of one of the stores next door.

I walked by the place and still couldn't tell they were open!

They also have a terrible website.

http://silvercowjax.com/

Everything is either blank or says "Coming Soon".

[Coolyfett]

Looks ok

[urbaknight]

I have two concerns about 22 Riverside Ave.

The building is made entirely out of wood. What happens in the event of a fire in one of the units?

With a wood frame, what happens in the event of a hurricane?