Let's Be Real: The Mayor Isn't Replacing the Landing

[Tacachale]

Those who support demolishing the Jacksonville Landing hope for a grand new replacement, although Mayor Lenny Curry insists on plowing forward without a publicly vetted plan for the space. It's time to confront the very real possibility that the mayor won't actually build anything new at the iconic site, and it will sit as another empty field for the foreseeable future.

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[Charles Hunter]

The plan? Grass and weeds that won't be maintained. Leave the broken concrete foundations of the demolished Landing buildings. Unkept promises to keep it from becoming a homeless camp.

[remc86007]

Is there some reason an RFP can't be issued for reuse/redevelopment of the property?

[Tacachale]

Is there some reason an RFP can't be issued for reuse/redevelopment of the property?

They'd have to issue an RFP to do anything more than a park. However, that could happen either before or after demolition.

[Kerry]

As for what that plan could be, two things come to mind: either the mayor has some secret idea for replacing the Landing that he doesn't want to share, or he doesn't actually intend to replace it at all

Actually it is both.  The plan is not to replace it with anything.  I will be surprised if it even gets grass.  I suspect it will be surrounded with chainlink fence and an opaque screen like 200 Riverside is now.  They don't even have money to finish the dog park downtown.