Ford Assembly Plant Comes Back to Life

[JaxNative68]

just one more example of Jacksonvilles architectural heritage being ignored by the city leaders.  They won't notice it until it has rotten into the ground and then pretend they cared.

If it is truely an Albert Kahn design, it could get listed on the national register of historic buildings and qualify for federal funding to restore.  I always thought this building would make a great artist studio building, similar to the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA.

[zoo]

Leave it to the Californians to get it right. Creative, visionary and open-minded. Excepting their presence in a few small lifestyle group segments (Downtown proponents, metrojacksonville.com post-ers), Jax lacks all of these qualities.

Jax's Ford plant will sit empty and being demolished by neglect until some social service group decides to use their fundraising and endowments to turn it into Jax's next day center.

[copperfiend]

The comments are sad but true. I wish the citizens of this city cared more too. Not just the leadership.

[konstantconsumer]

i would LOVE to live at the old ford assembly plant.  if i had the money, i would buy the whole damn thing and make it my personal GIANT loft apartment.

[Bike Jax]

Maybe this would also be a good use for the Ford Plant: http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/85834502.html

[Lunican]

It would make a good light rail maintenance facility for a future system.

[zoo]

Lunican...(tear), i'm not back to optimism, yet, but you've managed to put a dent in my negativity this a.m. thank you (weep, weep). 

[fieldafm]

It was noted that the structure needed to be saved immediately... scaffolding is pretty rusted and the bulkheads are in very poor condition.

It would make a great maintenance facility for a Jacksonville street car maintenace shop!

[copperfiend]

It was noted that the structure needed to be saved immediately... scaffolding is pretty rusted and the bulkheads are in very poor condition.

Which means nothing will be done, the building will have to be torn down and it will be used as bus parking during Jaguar games.


{weeps}

[Wacca Pilatka]

just one more example of Jacksonvilles architectural heritage being ignored by the city leaders.  They won't notice it until it has rotten into the ground and then pretend they cared.

If it is truely an Albert Kahn design, it could get listed on the national register of historic buildings and qualify for federal funding to restore.  I always thought this building would make a great artist studio building, similar to the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, VA.

Yes, it is definitely Kahn.

[stjr]

It would make a good light rail maintenance facility for a future system.

If we could get some people here to consider extending a street car system to the stadium and beyond to Talleyrand instead of the $ky-high-way, I would agree with you Lunican.

Imagine a streetcar system running down Bay Street, around the stadium turn, and up Talleyrand.  Connecting Downtown, a possible future convention center, East Bay entertainment district, the stadium/arena/ballpark, the Ford plant, and the port operations all in one route.  Sweet.  With those connections, it might even help support the creation of a "Jacksonville World Trade Center" office tower along the route.

[billy]

Commodore Point is a definite, albeit long range planning opportunity.

[mtraininjax]

So this is ONLY an idea, sort of like light rail? Ock - No pictures that take up 10 pages, I am so sad.

[samiam]

It would make a good Bloombox assembly plant

[Timkin]

I hope that the facility can be put on the national register. and I love the idea (as Lunican put in pictures) of making it a maintenance facility. It sort of would continue its use in at least a similar direction.  Ock...for the record, I completely support your rail ideas.  Negative City Leadership and people such as M-train will alway hinder, cripple, ridicule, and complain about buildings such as these. Its much easier for people like them to sit on their Schlitz-drinking behinds and bad-mouth our "hot air" and vision , than to jump in and be part of a solution instead of most of the problem.

As with the Laura Trio, Fire Station #5 , PS #4 , Genovar's Hall, etc , etc , etc,  I hope that a viable use IS identified for this building, and that It does realize utilization again.