3rd Street Promenade: A Destination, Not A Pass Through
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In this new special series, Metro Jacksonville will highlight what several peer cities across the country have created and are implementing to become destinations and not pass throughs. Here, we look at the world-famous Third Street Promenade in Downtown Santa Monica.
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http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2011-nov-3rd-street-promenade-a-destination-not-a-pass-through
CG7's vision: The city keeps the Shipyards property with a Riverwalk from Memorial Park to Metro Park. The piers all open with at least one Naval ship If not more. Plenty of play areas and splash pads for the kiddies. Sculpture and Botanical gardens. Amusement rides, not an Amusement Park, but a roller coaster, ferris wheel, carousel etc., as a pay as you ride deal. An Aquarium addition at MOSH, along with a new Southbank Riverwalk. All this is doable (finding money for the MOSH Aquarium would be difficult for the next few years), but everything else is in the works, or on the drawing board.(I would obviously like to see the Naval ship at the Shipyards instead of on the Southbank, and haven't I heard anything lately on Parc's involvement in the Shipyard property). The Landing seems to be hitting an upswing, so lets get someone to do the Laura Street Trio, and we could be on our way to downtown being a destination and not a pass through. I can dream can't I.
I don't know you plan to include it in this series, but Pearl Street in Boulder is a good example of this concept.
I would love to see the rest of Monroe closed between the new courthouse and the federal courthouse for this type of pedestrian-only promenade.
Insert Sleiman for Macerich Co. and you have the exact same scenario. Sleiman proposed closing off Hogan St. for parking garage and condos on the Main St. side. It sure would be nice if Sleiman came back to us with Macerich Plan 2 and opened up the Landing.
i think this would work for a street like bay street from the landing to the stadium. that way you get some river views, a decent stock of historic building wating to be retrofitted. the shipyards would become more desirable to a developer if a vibrant community developed organically. but damn if that jail isnt smack dab in the middle of it all.
Before reading this article, my first thought in connection to Santa Monica would have been that Fidelity left there for Jacksonville. I wish we could borrow some of their street-level vibrancy when we swipe their Fortune 500 companies.
Quote from: goldy21 on November 02, 2011, 09:52:07 AM
I don't know you plan to include it in this series, but Pearl Street in Boulder is a good example of this concept.
I would love to see the rest of Monroe closed between the new courthouse and the federal courthouse for this type of pedestrian-only promenade.
Or the 16th Street Mall in Denver. It has over 500 retailers and restaurants on a roughly one-mile stretch of road. Granted Denver has a dense concentration of old 5-7 floor warehouses from the pre-war era and we never really did, and Santa Monica also had a denser collection and benefits from being LA's big beach.
Quote from: Kay on November 02, 2011, 12:22:18 PM
Insert Sleiman for Macerich Co. and you have the exact same scenario. Sleiman proposed closing off Hogan St. for parking garage and condos on the Main St. side. It sure would be nice if Sleiman came back to us with Macerich Plan 2 and opened up the Landing.
Nope, don't insert Sleiman for Macerich. Keep Macerich or any other institutionally capitalized owner/operator/developer.
Quote from: hightowerlover on November 02, 2011, 02:00:14 PM
i think this would work for a street like bay street from the landing to the stadium. that way you get some river views, a decent stock of historic building wating to be retrofitted. the shipyards would become more desirable to a developer if a vibrant community developed organically. but damn if that jail isnt smack dab in the middle of it all.
I agree. Best chance is Bay St for sure. Watch the city screw that up.
Jacksonville is a city that failed. It will never become a destination. All it wants to do is move backward instead of forward. If there was a way to surrender a city to the state if Florida, I say surrender jacksonville.