Union Station Neighborhood: Why not Jacksonville?

[samiam]

OCK what kind of transport do you think we need from the air port to the space port about this


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSptqzfTSSE

[Ocklawaha]

Gotta love that TV show man!

How about Light Rail from the Airport to Jacksonville Terminal DOWNTOWN, hence the Florida East Coast via AMTRAK TRAIN down to the Space Center. I have ZERO confidence that we will see so much as a bottle rocket leave or arrive in Cecil Field without the Navy coming back.  Y'all do realize every state with ANY abandoned military air base suddenly has "A BIG SPACE PORT PROJECT..." Sure you do boyz, COOL AIDE bar's open until 4!

All this crap about water on the moon?? CRAP! Even if it's there, who wants to live on the moon? I can save them all a bunch of bucks and give em the keys to my desert cabin in the Mojave... It's the closest thing to the moon, VENUS, found on earth, and it DOESN'T HAVE WATER!

OCKLAWAHA

[tufsu1]

Actually Ock there are only 8 spaceports in the U.S.

[mtraininjax]

MJ - Good info on Denver. I was driving with a cabbie yesterday who said, while the city is spead out and it is to the same degree as Jacksonville (spawl is here many times over), Denver made the investment to improve downtown, the ball parks, the transit system (which runs along I-25), all help people get around. Their roads are not bad, but more potholes than we have for sure.

If and When a tranp hub is built, Lavilla seems the logical choice, BUT, we would need to see much more development in and around Lavilla. I can only hope that the law firms who purchased property to build with the new courthouse, will follow-through and work to grow and expand Lavilla. It has sat empty far too long. With that growth, I hope Brooklyn will grow as well. Like it or hate it the courthouse is the catalyst.

Denver's airport is like Jax, so far out, you'd swear it was in another state.

[Keith-N-Jax]

Wow when you look at that expanded view you can see the vast amount of land that appears to be available or under utilized. Potential is definitely there.

[blizz01]

Denver's airport is like Jax, so far out, you'd swear it was in another state.

We used to joke that JIA was actually South Georgia Regional.

[Ocklawaha]

Actually Ock there are only 8 spaceports in the U.S.

Yeah, with another 20+ standing in the wings, trying to get "Federal Certification" of their own "space ports."  Anyway it doesn't really matter that there are 6 or 60, my theory being, we are probably a solid century away from seeing any kind of space traffic. Until then most flights will either be millionaire explorers, National Geographic Types, and NASA.  NASA has been itching to set up shop in California for years, so they'll split their launches (or take-offs) between Florida and California, with the weather in CA eventually winning more flights. That leaves us with 100 years +/- of "one day wonders."  If we are expecting interstellar travel anytime soon we better find a way to break some laws of the known space-time spectrum. Until then Star Trek is going to be an oft repeated TV fantasy, and our best efforts will be BB Guns shooting at the moon.

For all you closet "Trekkie's" I'm not telling you it won't happen, all I'm saying is in the here and now, it won't happen in sufficient volume to justify local investment.  There are no Vulcan's or Klingon's on the immediate horizon.

OCKLAWAHA

[thelakelander]

Lets concentrate on getting a rail line up and running before spinning our wheels on reaching Mars.

[goldy21]

Massively renovated and expanded Union Station about to open:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_25472597/union-station-nearly-ready-opening

[IrvAdams]

It looks beautiful. They know how to build 'em big and pretty there. I still love their "new" airport...except it's soooo far from the city (but I guess it gets closer all the time).

[goldy21]

It looks beautiful. They know how to build 'em big and pretty there. I still love their "new" airport...except it's soooo far from the city (but I guess it gets closer all the time).

It will also get "closer" with the opening of the commuter rail line connecting the airport to downtown.

The most impressive aspect of the new Union Station is they spent $459 million in public money but have attracted close to a billion dollars of private investment in the area immediately surrounding it. 

[IrvAdams]

Denver is just such a draw, it seems like it has been for a long time. I have relatives there, and they were attracted to it a long time ago because of the weather and terrain. They are much more rugged than I, for sure. I find it very cold and the altitude is yet another issue entirely. It is also listed as one of the "healthiest" cities in the US.