$773,217 Study: Can Riverwalk Be Saved?

[thelakelander]

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- After city engineers recently estimated that the Southbank Riverwalk would only last another five to seven years if no repairs were made, Jacksonville's leaders allocated $773,217 for a study to learn study the structure and find out how to save it.

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[Jason]

Oh cool, another study to dertermine what we already know. I wonder what they'll find?

[Lunican]

Did Scott Teagle get this contract as well? That is an absurd price for a study of rotten wood.

[thelakelander]

How much was it going to cost to rebuild Friendship Fountain?  This number seems pretty close to what the Mayor's Office estimated it to be last year.

[Lunican]

And do they even intend to follow the recommendations of this study? They will spend nearly a million dollars on it, it will report the obvious, and it will end up on a shelf in storage. I can't think of a more effective way to waste $773k without producing any kind of results whatsoever.

[Steve]

According to Paul Crawford, the cost for replacing the pumps at Friendship Fountain was 830K.  No word on whether or not that was in Scott Teagle Dollars.

[David]

Has there been any updates since 2007 on this?

"As part of the current study, the city will look ahead to see if they can replace the wood deck with a concrete structure similar to what was built years later on the Northbank -- and what that would cost"

After utilizing the Northbank riverwalk so frequently, it really makes it's counterpart on the Southbank look old, rickety and beat down. It needs a makeover, stat!

[mtraininjax]

2009 dollars are 1.2 million, and no the mayor does not have funds for it. I think we have a new study coming out, we are paying the deceased to find out if the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.

[urbanlibertarian]

Why not get a private company to replace it and charge a toll to use it?  I'll bet it would be better maintained and more secure than the average COJ facilities.

[Noone]

Don't remember this.

[coredumped]

Sooo many river walk threads!

[Noone]

^ Are you local and live here in Jacksonville? When we went to just take a look at the NEW PUBLIC Southbank Riverwalk what has been reported we were just confronted as we entered an almost empty parking lot and this is next to the Penninsula and next to the Charthouse. What is the closest PUBLIC parking?

I don't recall any of this recently being before Waterways or the DIA. And if it has I will just say that someone has dropped the ball big time. Is Ted Carter still around? Can't tell you when Jack Shad has been at a DIA Board meeting.

You come to Friendship Fountain and look at the NEW PUBLIC Southbank Riverwalk and there is a bike rack just inside the previous width of the Riverwalk on the other side of the fence and when this process started you felt that this community was going to get back what was torn out only better. Someone help me out here. So you enter at Friendship Fountain. Where is the next PUBLIC ACCESS point? Is there something before you get to the Charthouse?

Again we didn't get out of the car because the parking guy was right there but the question is that we did notice what appeared to be an even narrower entrance point. I'm sure MJ will be doing a major follow up on this. Aren't we anticipating more crowds, more activities, more interaction?

Visit Jacksonville!

[Rob68]

Did Scott Teagle get this contract as well? That is an absurd price for a study of rotten wood.

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