New Downtown Living: Broadstone River House Apartments

[Adam White]

Broadstone is on pace as the slowest construction project of all time.  ALL TIME.  Only rivaled by Sagrada Familia!

Don't forget this bad boy:

[ProjectMaximus]

Broadstone is on pace as the slowest construction project of all time.  ALL TIME.  Only rivaled by Sagrada Familia!  Still not done, broke ground almost 3 years ago.

Glad to see they are on the home stretch.

Would have to do some digging but I imagine it's a close matchup with the Deerwood Lake Lofts in Tinseltown area. I imagine on a per sq ft basis the Deerwood one was slower...

[MusicMan]

Old Morton's becomes new again on Monday I believe, re-opening as FABEN OBGYN.

[bl8jaxnative]

Old Morton's becomes new again on Monday I believe, re-opening as FABEN OBGYN.

Am I the only person who finds their use of lawn signs a bit tacky?

[MusicMan]

They gone, new sign/marquee in place.

[Captain Zissou]

Broadstone is on pace as the slowest construction project of all time.  ALL TIME.  Only rivaled by Sagrada Familia!  Still not done, broke ground almost 3 years ago.

Glad to see they are on the home stretch.

Would have to do some digging but I imagine it's a close matchup with the Deerwood Lake Lofts in Tinseltown area. I imagine on a per sq ft basis the Deerwood one was slower...

That one was shockingly slow.  They got the framing up and then just took 2 years off it seemed.

[acme54321]

April update... In the last few weeks they've poured a curb over on the dcsb side.  That's about it 

[Kerry]

I think the housing slow down might be more sever than is being reported.  Even here in my new subdivision since March 1st construction has almost reached a stand-still.  We went a good 3 weeks without a single contractor on-site.  Lennar moved 45 homes (including ours) from a March closing to a Feb 28th closing.  Our mortgage got sold to another lender before I made the first payment.

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I think the housing slow down might be more sever than is being reported.  Even here in my new subdivision since March 1st construction has almost reached a stand-still.  We went a good 3 weeks without a single contractor on-site.  Lennar moved 45 homes (including ours) from a March closing to a Feb 28th closing.  Our mortgage got sold to another lender before I made the first payment.

Oh oh. Another recession, possibly even more major, on the horizon.

[vicupstate]

Our mortgage got sold to another lender before I made the first payment.

That would only be unusual if it DIDN'T happen.

[jaxjags]

I think the housing slow down might be more sever than is being reported.  Even here in my new subdivision since March 1st construction has almost reached a stand-still.  We went a good 3 weeks without a single contractor on-site.  Lennar moved 45 homes (including ours) from a March closing to a Feb 28th closing.  Our mortgage got sold to another lender before I made the first payment.

Actually I believe that is just a sign of a lack of sub contractors in the Jacksonville area. I live in North Jax. Three new subdivisions were begun last fall on Yellowbluff Rd. It took over 6 months just to get the models built after site work was complete. I believe demand is just outstripping construction labor supply.

[Kerry]

I think the housing slow down might be more sever than is being reported.  Even here in my new subdivision since March 1st construction has almost reached a stand-still.  We went a good 3 weeks without a single contractor on-site.  Lennar moved 45 homes (including ours) from a March closing to a Feb 28th closing.  Our mortgage got sold to another lender before I made the first payment.

Actually I believe that is just a sign of a lack of sub contractors in the Jacksonville area. I live in North Jax. Three new subdivisions were begun last fall on Yellowbluff Rd. It took over 6 months just to get the models built after site work was complete. I believe demand is just outstripping construction labor supply.

That is an issue also.  Before moving from 220 I talked with several of the guys working on 200 Riverside.  All were from out of town (Miami and Orlando mostly).  That can't be cheap considering there are ample contruction jobs in those two places.

[acme54321]

Our mortgage got sold to another lender before I made the first payment.

That would only be unusual if it DIDN'T happen.

Lol, Right??

[acme54321]

I think the housing slow down might be more sever than is being reported.  Even here in my new subdivision since March 1st construction has almost reached a stand-still.  We went a good 3 weeks without a single contractor on-site.  Lennar moved 45 homes (including ours) from a March closing to a Feb 28th closing.  Our mortgage got sold to another lender before I made the first payment.

All of the bitching and moaning you do about walkability, urbanism, etc and you move from 220 into something being build by Lennar?  LOL

[Kerry]

I think the housing slow down might be more sever than is being reported.  Even here in my new subdivision since March 1st construction has almost reached a stand-still.  We went a good 3 weeks without a single contractor on-site.  Lennar moved 45 homes (including ours) from a March closing to a Feb 28th closing.  Our mortgage got sold to another lender before I made the first payment.

All of the bitching and moaning you do about walkability, urbanism, etc and you move from 220 into something being build by Lennar?  LOL

Yea, I hear you but Jax is 99% urban sprawl.  What other options are there?  Downtown Jax will never have decent walkable urbanism in my lifetime.  Call it a surrender if you like - that's what I did and it helps me sleep at night.  If it was up to me I would head out of town and never look back.

Places like Chattanooga have a 30 year head-start on Jacksonville.

The Tennessee Aquarium opened in 1992, the Chattanooga Visitors Center in 1993, the Creative Discovery Museum in 1995, the IMAX 3D Theater in 1996.

Any of those things even being discussed in Jax by anyone with the power to make it happen?  Nope.