New Downtown Living: Broadstone River House Apartments

[bl8jaxnative]

Does anyone have an official move in date?   They were saying summer 2019 but some neighbors said they heard it wasn't going to be until October.

[scbennett67@gmail.com]

My personal thought on why it's taking so long is they just decided to keep labor costs down by employing less people. If there's no deadline you can get away with that. back when I worked construction it was like an ant bed. People working on top of each other.

[Kerry]

My personal thought on why it's taking so long is they just decided to keep labor costs down by employing less people. If there's no deadline you can get away with that. back when I worked construction it was like an ant bed. People working on top of each other.

I assume they want to make a profit and that is had to do with no tennants.

[bl8jaxnative]

My personal thought on why it's taking so long is they just decided to keep labor costs down by employing less people. If there's no deadline you can get away with that. back when I worked construction it was like an ant bed. People working on top of each other.

Considering the amount of fixed costs involved, it's hard to believe a developer would willing slow things down.  They don't start making money until things get leased out.   As you point out, normally there's a swarm to get things done.

If they're struggling to finish things up it could be permitting issue.  Or maybe they're desperately short on cash and have no choice?

[acme54321]

My personal thought on why it's taking so long is they just decided to keep labor costs down by employing less people. If there's no deadline you can get away with that. back when I worked construction it was like an ant bed. People working on top of each other.

Considering the amount of fixed costs involved, it's hard to believe a developer would willing slow things down.  They don't start making money until things get leased out.   As you point out, normally there's a swarm to get things done.

If they're struggling to finish things up it could be permitting issue.  Or maybe they're desperately short on cash and have no choice?

FWIW, their orginal construction schedule was much longer than I would have expected it to see.  I think the orginal estimate for completion was fall 2018.

[Charles Hunter]

They have about 4 months to hit the Summer 2019 goal.

Exactly - Summer runs until September 22nd.

[acme54321]

I'd have to see it to believe it.

[Peter Griffin]

I'd have to see it to believe it.

Website says they're open, moving people in, giving tours. One Google review is from a tenant who says they moved in recently.

The nay-sayers on this forum never cease to amaze me. The pessimism truly knows no bounds!

[Peter Griffin]

I'd have to see it to believe it.

Website says they're open, moving people in, giving tours. One Google review is from a tenant who says they moved in recently.

The nay-sayers on this forum never cease to amaze me. The pessimism truly knows no bounds!

Wait.Is this Lois or Peter?

Where are those good old-fashioned values on which we used to rely?

[fieldafm]

I'd have to see it to believe it.

Website says they're open, moving people in, giving tours. One Google review is from a tenant who says they moved in recently.

The nay-sayers on this forum never cease to amaze me. The pessimism truly knows no bounds!

Can confirm that there are people in the building now.

[acme54321]

In other news SoBaSoDoPa has a now leasing banner up on their garage.

[acme54321]

GAME CHANGER

[heights unknown]

I echo your sentiments SAN MARCO MATT...VIBRANCY BABY, VIBRANCY!!!

[bl8jaxnative]

I saw a person sitting on their balcony at Broadstone! And it looked like a "real person" like somebody in a Chevy ad.

Vibrancy, baby. Vibrancy.

Now, can anything happen with those horrible little buildings fronting the river? Nothing against IHOP....but please. Please!

I would imagine The Landmark hotel and surrounding properties are bound to be redeveloped later or sooner.   The trick is getting enough interesting in the area.    Maybe the redevelopment at the old JEA generating site, if that gets rolling, will create the impetus for a developer to take on something like that?   The properties a lil' goofy with the Skyway cutting through it and the River. 


As for the reviews on Google, be careful.  A lot of those are generated by click farms.    Just look at the accounts, just a review or 2 on them.   They used to crank them out on the same account.  Now they've had to spread them out over a butt ton of fake accounts.    And look at the wording.  They have a tendency to read like a marketing brochure, checking off all the boxes.   

The JMARTUS account is likely a product of one of these click farms.  Check out the reviews.   The pizza one had " It wasn't heavy and it's all because of the ingredients they use which are made fresh daily. We also enjoyed desserts and cappuccinos."   

Uh huh, ya, cuz when I review a resteraunt the first thing on my mind is to not comment that the food tasted like it was fresh ingredients but to point ou that it was made fresh daily.     There's a few folks out there that go into review mode and write crap in that framing.  BUt most of it is some 30 year old in Sri Lanka getting paid peanuts to crank them out, both fake good ones and fake ones to attack competitors.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/07/12/five-star-factory-amazon-google-tripadvisor-plagued-fake-reviews/

[Steve]

I would imagine The Landmark hotel and surrounding properties are bound to be redeveloped later or sooner.   The trick is getting enough interesting in the area.    Maybe the redevelopment at the old JEA generating site, if that gets rolling, will create the impetus for a developer to take on something like that?   The properties a lil' goofy with the Skyway cutting through it and the River. 

If you're referring to the Lexington Hotel, I doubt it has much changed anytime soon. The new owners just dumped a ton of money into the thing. So unless they're willing to let it go or someone comes in with a offer that's a HUGE increase on what they paid, I think we're going to see what we see for a while.

I suppose someone could make them an offer on the parking lot and then build structured parking to make them whole, but I'm not seeing it anytime soon.