Khan's Jacksonville Shipyards Plans Revealed

carpnter · April 27, 2015, 08:28:19 PM

Quote from: FSBA on April 27, 2015, 08:22:12 PM
Quote from: edjax on April 27, 2015, 08:12:34 PM
Stephanie Brown has a pic of the evaluation score sheets on her Twitter. One evaluator gave inHim 5 points, one gave him 7 and the other 0 points for an average of 4.

The person who gave InHim 7 points should've recused themselves from the proceedings. Clearly they were either drunk or must be the President of the Jacksonville Volleyball Society.

They could have felt so sorry for the guy that they thought they should award him something for his submission.

Know Growth · April 27, 2015, 09:16:05 PM

If the Khan Plan can actually deliver water the color depicted in Presentation,I'm in!

Next step will be to somehow figure out how to attract overnight boaters - the routine now is to avoid the public areas/"Down Town". This stuff adds up over the years.

ProjectMaximus · April 27, 2015, 11:03:52 PM

Quote from: FSBA on April 27, 2015, 08:22:12 PM
The person who gave InHim 7 points should've recused themselves from the proceedings. Clearly they were either drunk or must be the President of the Jacksonville Volleyball Society.

Don Redman

KenFSU · April 28, 2015, 12:05:18 AM

Quote from: FSBA on April 27, 2015, 08:22:12 PM
Clearly they were either drunk or must be the President of the Jacksonville Volleyball Society.

menace1069 · April 28, 2015, 08:04:21 AM

Quote from: carpnter on April 27, 2015, 08:28:19 PM
They could have felt so sorry for the guy that they thought they should award him something for his submission.

Can you imagine if they all did that and the guy ended up winning? Holy Cow, what a mess that would be.

downtownbrown · April 28, 2015, 10:16:13 AM

Quote from: Know Growth on April 27, 2015, 09:16:05 PM

If the Khan Plan can actually deliver water the color depicted in Presentation,I'm in!

Next step will be to somehow figure out how to attract overnight boaters - the routine now is to avoid the public areas/"Down Town". This stuff adds up over the years.

I don't think that will be a problem. Just requires some security. Try staying at the Landing overnight now and you might be set adrift in the middle of the night. It has happened...

Berkman marina is reasonably secure. My boat was only broken into twice when it lived there. But the docks are awful and dangerous, so I say good riddance to them if Khan builds some swanky new ones.

ProjectMaximus · April 28, 2015, 12:18:18 PM

Quote from: menace1069 on April 28, 2015, 08:04:21 AM
Quote from: carpnter on April 27, 2015, 08:28:19 PM
They could have felt so sorry for the guy that they thought they should award him something for his submission.

Can you imagine if they all did that and the guy ended up winning? Holy Cow, what a mess that would be.

You're misinterpreting this. He didnt get 4 winning votes. They scored all the submissions and InHim ended up with an average score of 4. I'm sure none of the evaluators came anywhere close to giving that proposal more points than the Yacht one, much less beating out Khan's plan.

menace1069 · April 28, 2015, 04:31:59 PM

Quote from: ProjectMaximus on April 28, 2015, 12:18:18 PM
Quote from: menace1069 on April 28, 2015, 08:04:21 AM
Quote from: carpnter on April 27, 2015, 08:28:19 PM
They could have felt so sorry for the guy that they thought they should award him something for his submission.

Can you imagine if they all did that and the guy ended up winning? Holy Cow, what a mess that would be.

You're misinterpreting this. He didnt get 4 winning votes. They scored all the submissions and InHim ended up with an average score of 4. I'm sure none of the evaluators came anywhere close to giving that proposal more points than the Yacht one, much less beating out Khan's plan.

Yea, I know..I'm being silly about it. Like in school when you would just write in someone for the class prez or Christmas tree a test...would have been funny if one of the voters was goofing around and gave him actual votes and he ended up winning.

Just a little tom foolery...That is all.

Marle Brando · April 30, 2015, 02:19:11 PM

Council has given the OK for Mr. Wallace to begin negotiations with Iguana Investments for shipyards development. Let the games begin..

I-10east · April 30, 2015, 02:22:24 PM

Relocating Metropolitan Park could be part of talks with Khan about Shipyards development.

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2015-04-30/story/relocating-metropoltian-park-could-be-part-talks-khan-about-shipyard

Marle Brando · April 30, 2015, 02:30:08 PM

If I'm reading it correctly, the business journal quotes Aundra Wallace as stating the project will take 17 years to complete!! How in the world when Khan expresses he wants to see a total build out at simultaneously? I'm confused now. I would like to enjoy this thing before in my 40's

hiddentrack · April 30, 2015, 02:52:33 PM

Quote from: Marle Brando on April 30, 2015, 02:30:08 PM
If I'm reading it correctly, the business journal quotes Aundra Wallace as stating the project will take 17 years to complete!! How in the world when Khan expresses he wants to see a total build out at simultaneously? I'm confused now. I would like to enjoy this thing before in my 40's

Looks like there's some conflicting info on this from the JBJ. The slug for their story (http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2015/04/30/shipyards-redevelopment-could-take-up-to-17-years.html) says "shipyards-redevelopment-could-take-up-to-17-years" but the headline now reads "Shipyards redevelopment could take up to 10 years". Looks like that headline was changed sometime after posting.

It's not completely unexpected that this would be a long-term project, but hopefully it ends up closer to 10 than 17. It'll all come down to demand.

thelakelander · April 30, 2015, 02:58:34 PM

Just because Khan is involved doesn't mean he's going to spend his cash on building a full development that the market clearly can't support. Where did he say he'd build out everything shown on that fluffed up rendering simultaneously? To be honest, we'd be lucky if it's fully completed in 20 years! No way DT Jax can support that much extra commercial space when half the place is a scene straight out of 28 Days Later.

Jumpinjack · April 30, 2015, 07:13:16 PM

Moving Metropolitan Park to a new location would allow Khan to have more waterfront for his development. It is very unlikely that a new location for Metropolitan Park would be on the waterfront since it is prime development property. Feels like the public is being shut out of waterfront space once again.

RattlerGator · April 30, 2015, 07:37:22 PM

Quote from: Jumpinjack on April 30, 2015, 07:13:16 PM
Moving Metropolitan Park to a new location would allow Khan to have more waterfront for his development. It is very unlikely that a new location for Metropolitan Park would be on the waterfront since it is prime development property. Feels like the public is being shut out of waterfront space once again.

Oh, come on. Shut out ? ? ? The waterfront figures prominently is the conceptual design I saw. This is just the beginning of the process. Many, many people I'm sure will be on the look-out to ensure public access to the waterfront.