Hemming Park Beautification

[jlmann]

You never solve a problem by focusing on the symptoms. Tylenol alleviates the fever but you still have the Flu.

at this point these folks are at least the park's flu.

went out for lunch today, like everyday.  as usual the sidewalks are full of folks on their lunch breaks.  but the foot traffic through and around hemming shows clearly shows they are avoiding hemming.

I would suggest that hemming has lagged the surrounding blocks esp towards the river.  adam is right as more people live dt the issue will improve and that's happening, but in the mean time this is an improvement and does no harm to anything dt

[vicupstate]

The fact that Hemming is mostly visited by homeless people is due in part to the fact there is nothing around it to draw anyone to it. There is little retail/restaurant around it. By surrounding it with mostly offices, it is doomed to be empty most of the time except for those with nothing to do.   

[lastdaysoffla]

Can anyone provide recent or current pics?

Of Hemming Park/Plaza or the homeless people?

Either/or


I think this is a hasty choice. Landscaping would've been better than just laying down mulch. But I guess the cheapest route wins out.

[thelakelander]

Before:




After:

[Adam White]

Before:




After:

Is that mulch?

[Keith-N-Jax]

Is that all their going to do? I hope not

[Adam White]

Is that all their going to do? I hope not

I was thinking the same thing. Then I thought maybe the yellow tape means they're not finished. In any event, that's a lot of mulch. I can appreciate mulch around plants or whatever - but I don't like the idea of the entire park just being mulch.

I'm also "indoorsy" and avoid gardening like the plague. So it's possible that I'm just missing the obvious or something.

[mtraininjax]

The city acquired Hemming Park in 1866 and named it after Jacksonville Confederate veteran Charles C. Hemming, who gifted the Confederate statue standing in the middle of the park. The statue is one of the few pieces of Jacksonville that survived the Great Fire of 1901.

#TakeEmDownJax

Might the City remove the soldier monument and possibly change the name of the park as well?

My my, how the times they are a changing....

[FlaBoy]

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After:

That looks awful. Why not grass (which is what I thought they said they were doing)?

[thelakelander]

The after image was taken two weeks ago. The yellow tape is gone now since the fence is complete. At some point, they'll add some sculptures but this fenced in area of the park will no longer be accessible to the public.

[Adam White]

The after image was taken two weeks ago. The yellow tape is gone now since the fence is complete. At some point, they'll add some sculptures but this fenced in area of the park will no longer be accessible to the public.

What a great use of public space.

[lastdaysoffla]

The city acquired Hemming Park in 1866 and named it after Jacksonville Confederate veteran Charles C. Hemming, who gifted the Confederate statue standing in the middle of the park. The statue is one of the few pieces of Jacksonville that survived the Great Fire of 1901.

#TakeEmDownJax

Might the City remove the soldier monument and possibly change the name of the park as well?

My my, how the times they are a changing....

I hope not. I'm no Son of the Confederacy or anything but I think it is silly to remove monuments, names, etc. from the public that have to do with the Confederacy. Confederates were Americans too and should have monuments.

Those who forget history...

[jlmann]

Those who forget history...

I respect that some confederate soldiers were just doing there duty and all.  But call the confederacy what it is: a renegade insurgency.

so we're bound to secede again if we take down monuments?  that's a stretch at best

[Jim]

The city acquired Hemming Park in 1866 and named it after Jacksonville Confederate veteran Charles C. Hemming, who gifted the Confederate statue standing in the middle of the park. The statue is one of the few pieces of Jacksonville that survived the Great Fire of 1901.

#TakeEmDownJax

Might the City remove the soldier monument and possibly change the name of the park as well?

My my, how the times they are a changing....

I hope not. I'm no Son of the Confederacy or anything but I think it is silly to remove monuments, names, etc. from the public that have to do with the Confederacy. Confederates were Americans too and should have monuments.

Those who forget history...

Uh....I'm pretty sure they were fighting for 4 years specifically to no longer be part of the USA.  We are literally celebrating people who fought against us to become something else.  And I can assure that the removal of a Confederate statue will have no effect on the populace remembering or forgetting that time in history when our southern states wanted to be their own country so they could continue slavery (among other reasons).

[Adam White]

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_South