Urban Parks: Water Street Garage Pocket Park

[Metro Jacksonville]

Urban Parks: Water Street Garage Pocket Park



Located on the corner of Bay and Broad Streets, the Water Street garage pocket park may be the most overlooked public space in Downtown Jacksonville.

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[jeh1980]

That's a nice looking pocket park. I didn't know there was a park there. And it would be a great idea to put a few retail shops on the ground level. Wouldn't that be a site!  

[Ocklawaha]

Pretty enough, but like all the rest it seems devoid of life...maybe just the rainy day? How's it doing on a nice spring like lunch hour?

I still miss the COLOMBIAN PARKS and their tiny garden shed size, matching brick mini-shops. Micro Mickey D's (yeah the REAL thing), Dunkin, BK all the rest too. Wonder how this would do in the states?

Lakelander, do we have a better detail drawing or view of this layout?

OCKLAWAHA  

[thelakelander]

Sorry, I don't have a detailed drawing for this space.  Like most of downtown, it is devoid of life.  Its off the beaten path and there is no reason for most downtown pedestrians to even be in the area.

[copperfiend]

It looks like an area they would find a body

[vicupstate]

It seems well suited for the homeless, lots of places to lay down, it's obscure, it's shaded.   

[fsu813]

lifeless.

[Bewler]

Lifeless, secluded, lots of rails and curbs. This place should be swarming with skaters.

[Doctor_K]

^ Which would imply that there would be enough people living downtown for skaters to be a subset.  Since there are so few people living in the core, there are very few cultural subsets of which to be a part.  

[Captain Zissou]

I think that looks like a potentially awesome space for lunch goers/ the public in general.  I agree about the skaters, that would be a dream.  If the staircases weren't so broken up it would be more appealing. 

[Steve]

Personally, I like the idea of convertin that portion of the garage for retail, like sidewalk cafe's, etc. However, there are plenty of other places to fix first.  In 300 years, when we fix the rest, we can look at this.

[jtwestside]

Reminds me of prison.

I mean what I've seen on TV of course.  

[Jason]

Lifeless, secluded, lots of rails and curbs. This place should be swarming with skaters.

I used to skate that park back in the day, although its not a great spot because of all of the brick.  The only thing that drew us to it were the steps and rails.  Even then, it still seemed kind of undiscovered.

[Jason]

How long had Google Earth had the 3D images now?  Looks great!

[jaxtrader]

There is a group of young skaters that hang out around the southbank on weekends and warm evenings. Interesting to see in such a sterile non-neighborhood. Also interesting is that it is a very racially mixed crowd and it that  it appears to be largely devoid of skating talent.