Springfield Walgreens

[Lunican]

Construction for Walgreens, 1801 Davis St. N. near Eighth Street West, 12,610 square feet, $1.2 million; contractor is Scherer Construction & Engineering Inc., Orlando; owner is W9 Jacksonville LLC, Orlando; architect is HAI Architects Inc., St. Petersburg.

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/092407/bus_201372312.shtml

[Lunican]

JTA now wants this site for a bus station:



http://www.metrojacksonville.com/content/view/624/

[Jason]

At least they won't be razing a historic structure, it'll just be the first new drugstore in Springfield in years.

[jbm32206]

We can use the Walgreens more so than a bus station. A bus station will only make the area worse for neighborhood. I'd rather see the area used in a more constructive and neighborhood friendly manner. A bus station means more transients hanging out, and that section's already plagued with hookers and drugs.

[thelakelander]

Maybe they'll construct the bus station in Shand's parking lot so they can consider Walgreens and McDonald's a TOD?

[jbm32206]

I just don't want to see anything that's going to make our situation any worse than what it already is...yet I do want to see growth...that's for sure.

[thelakelander]

Oh, don't get me wrong, the BRT plan is definately shortsighted and will negatively impact the communities lining it's borders.  I was only joking about the Walgreens TOD thing.

[jbm32206]

Oh, I know....I just wanted others to realize that I'm all for progress....as long as it's on the right path.

[I-10east]

One minor nit-pick...The land were the bus station or Walgreens is gonna be is not in Springfield; It's between Springfield and Durkeeville.

[thelakelander]

That general area was once known as the neighborhood of Sugar Hill, but it was erased by hospital expansion and I-95.  I-95 has now grown to become the un-official dividing mark between the Springfield and Durkeeville areas.  Since the Walgreens is on the Springfield side of I-95, its understandable that people will associate it more with Springfield, although it benefits both.

[jason_contentdg]

One minor nit-pick...The land were the bus station or Walgreens is gonna be is not in Springfield; It's between Springfield and Durkeeville.

Ah yes, let's only call that area Springfield if there's some sort of crime there. 

[blazer]

FYI - this Walgreens opened today