King Street Grille to Open at Laura Trio Location.

[fieldafm]

and 75k-100k residents living within a three mile radius. While more residents in the Northbank is important, we should not use its lack of residents as an excuse for not being able to achieve great things. We have more than enough to work with already.

Chatanooga has a tad under 3k residents downtown and under 50k residents living in the 'bowl'-which is the equivalent of San Marco, Riverside, Avondale and Springfield.  Yet, there were more restaurants open and bustling with customers at dinner time on a Wednesday in a two block square radius downtown Nooga, then a typical Wednesday in all of downtown Jacksonville (while Five Points is bustling with activity on a Wednesday night).

This isn't just a coincidence.

[edjax]

You've got 600 apartments that will be finished on Riverside one mile from the Trio.

And how nice would it be for them to jump on the Skyway on Riverside and take to the Hemming Plaza station and walk to the Trio and other places downtown!  Of course JTA would also have to run the Skyway weekends and late too.

[coredumped]

This is really awesome, this is how it starts!
From the TU article:

One of the partners in the chain is Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, Phipps said.

He described King Street as a high-end sports bar, that will seat about 150 and have a build-out cost of more than $1 million. It will employ at least 50 people, he said.

"We sell more food than alcohol," he said, "but it's all sports all the time. TVs will be everywhere. I think they've all gone to 72-inches."

The name will stay the same: King Street Grille.

Phipps said he lived in Jacksonville for three years while attending Florida Coastal School of Law.

"I fell in love with Jacksonville," he said, "but then I graduated and had to go home to Charleston.

He said that he and managing partner Scott Kier had been looking at putting a King Street Grille at the Beaches.

"But I came down last year for an alumni function," Phipps said, "And One Spark was going on. I told Scott it might be time to come down and buy a building. 'They're getting ready to breathe a lot of life into downtown.'

http://members.jacksonville.com/entertainment/food-and-dining/2014-05-01/story/high-end-charleston-sc-sports-bar-will-occupy-part

We need more people like this.

However, very sadly the first 2 comments on the TU article are this:

A couple of months after opening, he will wish that he never came to Jacksonville.
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Who do they think will go there?
Evidently they've only seen it in daylight hours

[ben says]

Never read TU comments. Unless you want a reason to become suicidal and/or depressed about humanity.

[isphil]

It's that inferiority complex that seems to pervade the Jacksonville citizenry.  Fortunately, that's beginning to change

[IrvAdams]

^Absolutely. All the news lately is good and I'm loving it. Bring it on, my dollars are ready to be spent downtown.

[spuwho]

It's a place worth supporting.

I look forward to the grand opening and Metrojacksonville having a big bash there periodically.

[AuditoreEnterprise]

Those chicken wings look mighty tasty

[AuditoreEnterprise]

The sky way doesn't even meed an operator on board like most cities transit. What's holding that back out of curiosity?

[FSBA]

The sky way doesn't even meed an operator on board like most cities transit. What's holding that back out of curiosity?

Spending $10-$20 million on a system that is widely regarded as the poster child of misguided downtown projects isn't popular.

[BoldBoyOfTheSouth]

Cool!

Charleston is a serious foode town so it they are successful there they'll make a great addition to Jacksonville.

[AuditoreEnterprise]

The sky way doesn't even meed an operator on board like most cities transit. What's holding that back out of curiosity?

Spending $10-$20 million on a system that is widely regarded as the poster child of misguided downtown projects isn't popular.

That's how much it would cost to run it a little later at night?

[Jx3]

This is cool! I'm ready to spend $ in DT Jax. TU should turn off comments.

[IrvAdams]

Maybe they need maintenance time? I know the cars have little maintenance houses where they go to sleep :-)

For a mature 27ish year old system I must admit they run quite well.

[FSBA]

The sky way doesn't even meed an operator on board like most cities transit. What's holding that back out of curiosity?

Spending $10-$20 million on a system that is widely regarded as the poster child of misguided downtown projects isn't popular.

That's how much it would cost to run it a little later at night?

Sorry, thought you were asking about expanding into Brooklyn.