Rethinking Regency Mall

Timkin · June 28, 2010, 09:59:38 PM

Not a bad plan !

tufsu1 · June 28, 2010, 10:12:25 PM

Quote from: gridsketch on June 28, 2010, 09:54:36 PM
We should refashion the mall and its massive parking lot into a New Urbanist community. Just tear the roof off of the middle and make it into a main street. Put facades on the storefronts and parking garages above the stores (like SoDO). The parking lot can become a neighborhood of townhouses. Everyone will want to live there.

visioning study for that has already been done...check this out

http://www.jaxpride.org/uploads/Charrette-Rethinking_Regency.pdf

Timkin · June 28, 2010, 10:19:02 PM

Sweet! It mentions in the study , the before and after of Winter Park Mall ....Now Winter Park Village.. which is stunning !!!

TheProfessor · June 28, 2010, 10:19:08 PM

There needs to be a stop there on the light rail that goes from downtown to the beaches. This will encourage transit oriented development. One day!

Timkin · June 28, 2010, 10:26:55 PM

Agree... If light rail were in place in many areas of town, I would use it as opposed to my own car. After a 25 year career which required a LOT of driving , it would not bother me at all

gridsketch · June 28, 2010, 10:28:53 PM

Quote from: tufsu1 on June 28, 2010, 10:12:25 PM
Quote from: gridsketch on June 28, 2010, 09:54:36 PM
We should refashion the mall and its massive parking lot into a New Urbanist community. Just tear the roof off of the middle and make it into a main street. Put facades on the storefronts and parking garages above the stores (like SoDO). The parking lot can become a neighborhood of townhouses. Everyone will want to live there.

visioning study for that has already been done...check this out

http://www.jaxpride.org/uploads/Charrette-Rethinking_Regency.pdf

I wanna be in a charrette. Someone put me on a list!

Timkin · June 28, 2010, 10:31:32 PM

Right? I love the renderings !!

gridsketch · June 28, 2010, 10:33:18 PM

Quote from: Timkin on June 28, 2010, 10:26:55 PM
Agree... If light rail were in place in many areas of town, I would use it as opposed to my own car. After a 25 year career which required a LOT of driving , it would not bother me at all

The light rail stops have to be to real destinations not just shopping and strip malls. There has to be existing work/shop/home places or at least the potential for future work/shop/home places.

Timkin · June 28, 2010, 10:34:59 PM

I understand that

TheProfessor · June 28, 2010, 10:43:48 PM

Regency has the potential to be a destination again. It has the semigridded fabric of Arlington adjacent to it with many sidewalks and is right between downtown and the beaches.

TheProfessor · June 28, 2010, 10:44:52 PM

It's sort of a chicken and the egg situaiton. Rail would be the egg I hope

gridsketch · June 28, 2010, 10:54:56 PM

I used the light rail in Baltimore in the 1990s and it was awesome.

tufsu1 · June 29, 2010, 08:44:15 AM

Quote from: gridsketch on June 28, 2010, 10:28:53 PM
I wanna be in a charrette. Someone put me on a list!

contact JaxPride

tufsu1 · June 29, 2010, 08:48:03 AM

Quote from: TheProfessor on June 28, 2010, 10:19:08 PM
There needs to be a stop there on the light rail that goes from downtown to the beaches. This will encourage transit oriented development. One day!

right now the downtown-beaches corridor is planned to be served by BRT (as there is no existing rail line)...but yes, Regency is a major stop/transfer location

gridsketch · June 29, 2010, 06:29:27 PM

I looks like Jacksonville is moving more permanently towards a decentralized multinodal city like Los Angeles. If we remade old shopping/strip malls (Regency, Orange Park, Normandy) like this wouldn't it accelerate the demise of downtown? If these old malls became were truly urban places would the death of downtown be so bad? I'm mostly thinking out loud here. Or perhaps commercial/residential satellite towns with a cultural/civic/residential city center in downtown.