Bank site to be razed along West State Street

[thelakelander]

https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/article/bank-site-to-be-razed-along-west-state-street

[acme54321]

This on top of FBC and the Bus Station puts a crazy amount of property in the works in that area 

[marcuscnelson]

[bl8jaxnative]

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the owner wants to clear the site to help with marketability.
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[Peter Griffin]

Kinda makes sense. This bank is usually just a homeless spot and is blighted, with too small of a footprint to be reused for anything other than another drive-thru bank branch.

not sure how much of a market there is in that area, though, State and Union are really blighted corridors with several vacant or underutilized lots. Guess we'll see, though

[marcuscnelson]

Has there been any progress on two-way-ing State and/or Union, or are we too busy giving Shad Khan 50-year interest-free loans?

[bl8jaxnative]

Every time I go dowtown these days, I can't shake the thought that no one's interested in doing anything because the city's let it gone to seed.

I get that homeless people will be around.  They should.  They have a right.

But that doesn't mean they can set up shop right in front of some biz, literally on the steps.

Not looking good in the old part of downtown.

[Charles Hunter]

Has there been any progress on two-way-ing State and/or Union, or are we too busy giving Shad Khan 50-year interest-free loans?

I don't think there is any consideration of making State and/or Union into 2-way roads. For FDOT they connect Arlington and the Sports Complex with I-95 and downtown.  All the discussion I have seen of 2-way conversion has been south of Beaver Street.

[marcuscnelson]

Oh, maybe that's just been talked about here then. My bad.

[thelakelander]

Yeah, I don't see FDOT making State and Union two-way without another viable route to replace them.

[acme54321]

I don't know what other option we'd have for State andd Union that would be preferable to what's there now.  Those roads carry a lot of traffic.

[Bill Hoff]

not sure how much of a market there is in that area, though, State and Union are really blighted corridors with several vacant or underutilized lots. Guess we'll see, though

You'd think fast food & drive thrus would be lining up.

[thelakelander]

It's got more of a market than the Northbank does these days. What it lacks is a vision of what the corridor could become, which is a place that brings Springfield and Downtown together. I expect we'll eventually end up with a gas station like a WaWa and a fast food place or two. Both the McDonald's and 7-11 seem to do pretty good since they opened.

[tufsu1]

Has there been any progress on two-way-ing State and/or Union, or are we too busy giving Shad Khan 50-year interest-free loans?

I don't think there is any consideration of making State and/or Union into 2-way roads. For FDOT they connect Arlington and the Sports Complex with I-95 and downtown.  All the discussion I have seen of 2-way conversion has been south of Beaver Street.

I would be happy to see one lane eliminated on each road. Both would function just fine with 3 lanes if the signals are timed properly.