Downtown Development Update: What's rising, what's delayed

[heights unknown]

@heights unknown  Here the moment you've been waiting for!

https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/news/2026/apr/08/mayor-donna-deegan-related-groups-tower-set-for-may-groundbreaking-in-downtown-jacksonville/

Mayor Donna Deegan: Related Group's tower set for May groundbreaking in Downtown Jacksonville
Six years in the making, the South Bank Residences are planned on the site of the demolished River City Brewing Co.

LOL...y'all can say what you want about me, but this I know: "ALL OF YOU ARE CLOSET SKYSCRAPER HEIGHT FREAKS."

[jcjohnpaint]

Can someone tomorrow see if n8 site is active with vehicles and equipment.

I'll try on my way home from work

[thelakelander]

There's a porta-potty on the site.

[JaGoaT]

https://media.yourobserver.com/img/photos/2026/01/11/South_Bank_Residences_1_t1100.jpeg?31a214c4405663fd4bc7e33e8c8cedcc07d61559

Looks like Riveplace Blvd/ Museum Circle will end at the roundabout, current rendering shows building coming really close to Prudential/Haskell building

[acme54321]

https://media.yourobserver.com/img/photos/2026/01/11/South_Bank_Residences_1_t1100.jpeg?31a214c4405663fd4bc7e33e8c8cedcc07d61559

Looks like Riveplace Blvd/ Museum Circle will end at the roundabout, current rendering shows building coming really close to Prudential/Haskell building

No, the roads are all staying the same.  The roundabout you see in that rendering is the one at the dead end of San Marco Blvd at the fountain.

[acme54321]

Can someone tomorrow see if n8 site is active with vehicles and equipment.

I'll try on my way home from work

Can someone tomorrow see if n8 site is active with vehicles and equipment.

I'll try on my way home from work

They did some site work a few months about but it's been quiet since.  No equipment or anything on site.

[Jagsdrew]

There's a porta-potty on the site.

Holy Crap.

[thelakelander]

There was some light site work this afternoon.

[Skybox111]

Struggling to get this site going. Hope they really start work on it. 

[thelakelander]

Gateway Jax's Block N8 cleared for $145 million construction Downtown

The city issued a permit April 14 for Downtown's Gateway Jax Pearl Square development called Block N8 at a project cost of almost $145.21 million.

PCL Construction LLC is the contractor for the project to include short-term rentals, apartments, retail and restaurant space, a gym, parking and more.

Block N8 is at 440 W. Beaver St., bounded clockwise from the north by Beaver, Pearl, Ashley and Clay streets.

Plans specify a 22-story building connected with what appears to be a 13-story building and a three-story structure, totaling 198,181 square feet of space.

The 537 rentals comprise 394 apartments and the 143 short-term units. The latter are designed to attract tenants in town for area business, including education and health care.

"They are short-term rental units, not a hotel as you'd typically think of one," said Gateway Jax CEO Bryan Moll by email in May 2025.

https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/news/2026/apr/15/gateway-jaxs-block-n8-cleared-for-145-million-construction-downtown/

[heights unknown]

So; how long will it take for the permit to get through approved?

[Steve]

Sounds like it was just issued yesterday

[heights unknown]

Yes, I believe it was submitted or issued yesterday; so now, how long, at an average, will it take to go through or get approved?

[sean27]

The permit is already approved. They got it yesterday.

[heights unknown]

The permit is already approved. They got it yesterday.

Thanks. Cranes, cranes, cranes, and more cranes; haven't see that since many minutes.