It appears the Shipyards may have some competition!
QuoteA 35-acre vacant riverfront parcel on the Southbank that was the former site of a JEA electric generating plant will soon be in play once again.
The JEA board of directors decided Tuesday to solicit proposals from developers who want to build on the site, next to the Duval County Public Schools headquarters on Prudential Drive.
full article: http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2014/01/22/premier-southbank-riverfront-land-back.html
Was any contamination on the site already cleaned up. You'd have to think that all that time with a power generating station sitting on the site there would be some type of soil contamination.
Quote from: carpnter on January 22, 2014, 05:47:58 PM
Was any contamination on the site already cleaned up. You'd have to think that all that time with a power generating station sitting on the site there would be some type of soil contamination.
I think they still have some remediation work to do.
Lets go like Gus says more competition is needed :)
Good site for a soccer stadium for the Jax NASL team?
Perhaps JEA would be willing to sell the land at market value to a developer interested in building an aquarium, ferris wheel, condos, hotels, and an observation tower...and don't forget the gondola ride across the river to the stadium.
QuoteGood site for a soccer stadium for the Jax NASL team?
downtown? Lol, the base for their fans is on the southside. Better to build it on skinner dairy farmland than downtown.
Quote from: mtraininjax on January 22, 2014, 10:26:20 PM
QuoteGood site for a soccer stadium for the Jax NASL team?
downtown? Lol, the base for their fans is on the southside. Better to build it on skinner dairy farmland than downtown.
Well the stadium would not only be for soccer...I would guess there will be concert and other event held in it so downtown would be the best place to have that stadium. right?
Quote from: tufsu1 on January 22, 2014, 09:55:24 PM
Perhaps JEA would be willing to sell the land at market value to a developer interested in building an aquarium, ferris wheel, condos, hotels, and an observation tower...and don't forget the gondola ride across the river to the stadium.
So were going to have two aquariums and Ferris wheels? Wow were gonna rock!!!!
Have they worked out access from Prudential Drive through the School Board parking lot? I remember this was an issue the last (first?) time a development was proposed.
Quote from: mtraininjax on January 22, 2014, 10:26:20 PM
QuoteGood site for a soccer stadium for the Jax NASL team?
downtown? Lol, the base for their fans is on the southside. Better to build it on skinner dairy farmland than downtown.
Agree. Especially if you want to have an entire spread out athletic complex. I always thought that intersection of 9A/JTB/Gate Parkway would be best.
Dont forget giant water park...
(https://www.dorneypark.com/images/rides/wildwater_rapids2.jpg)
Quote from: Rynjny on January 22, 2014, 10:48:27 PM
Well the stadium would not only be for soccer...I would guess there will be concert and other event held in it so downtown would be the best place to have that stadium. right?
Haha.... ohhh yeah... The St Nick residents would love that. Also, a concert venue would largely cannibalize the venues already in the area.
Let's put in a mixed use community with office, residential, and riverfront parks and dining. Once the overland bridge project is complete, this parcel will have access to 95 SB/NB and it's close to I-10. also, is it close enough to the skyway station on its western side to be considered TAD?
Quote from: Captain Zissou on January 23, 2014, 09:53:12 AM
Quote from: Rynjny on January 22, 2014, 10:48:27 PM
Well the stadium would not only be for soccer...I would guess there will be concert and other event held in it so downtown would be the best place to have that stadium. right?
Haha.... ohhh yeah... The St Nick residents would love that. Also, a concert venue would largely cannibalize the venues already in the area.
Let's put in a mixed use community with office, residential, and riverfront parks and dining. Once the overland bridge project is complete, this parcel will have access to 95 SB/NB and it's close to I-10. also, is it close enough to the skyway station on its western side to be considered TAD?
Actually a 3-6k concert venue would be a great asset, which would help attract the acts we're losing to St Augustine or that are skipping the region entirely. If it could double as a multi-purpose soccer and sports stadium, so much the better. But of course anything like this would be an uphill fight against the noise complainers. Mixed-use development would be good too, the parcel has so much potential.
This site would be the perfect location for a surface parking lot, or maybe we can just make it a landfill for medical waste.
Quote from: tufsu1 on January 22, 2014, 09:55:24 PM
Perhaps JEA would be willing to sell the land at market value to a developer interested in building an aquarium, ferris wheel, condos, hotels, and an observation tower...and don't forget the gondola ride across the river to the stadium.
Where will the IKEA and Bass Pro Shop go??
Quote from: hightowerlover on January 23, 2014, 11:41:28 AM
This site would be the perfect location for a surface parking lot, or maybe we can just make it a landfill for medical waste.
Be careful what you say. If the developers have their way and are able to re-kill the mobility plan, that could be a possability.
I believe today is the day they open the proposals and announce who has submitted them.
Quote from: hightowerlover on January 23, 2014, 11:41:28 AM
This site would be the perfect location for a surface parking lot, or maybe we can just make it a landfill for medical waste.
LOLOLOLOL...Come on "High Tower," make me laugh just a little bit harder.......LOLOLOL.
Quote from: edjax on October 07, 2014, 01:18:39 PM
I believe today is the day they open the proposals and announce who has submitted them.
Can't wait to see the proposals and who submitted them. Can't wait to open the Christmas gifts.
Per story on JBJ there were two bids. The one Rummell is involved in and one from a company out of Atlanta, RocaPoint Partners. There is a tie to the city with them in that one of their partners was previously with Everbank.
It looks like 2 of the 3 partners were previously with Everbank. The third is President and Co CEO of Georgetown Investment Co out of NYC.
Quote from: thelakelander on January 22, 2014, 05:11:33 PM
It appears the Shipyards may have some competition!
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As anticipated
So, it's been about a decade since this all started. How do we feel about the progress that's been made?
This land was initially awarded to Peter Rummell and Mike Balanky as Healthy Town. Then it became The District. Now it's RiversEdge, led by Preston Hollow Capital after the original partners dropped out. Despite all this time, the horizontal infrastructure is still under construction while the only officially slated building plans are for townhomes by Toll Brothers.
This is one was always more pie in the sky to me.....in that the renderings shown over the years were nothing more than massing models moreso than real projects that would be built anytime soon. This is a pretty large development site. I expect it to take a couple of decades to fully build out. With that said, consider us about one decade in already.
Quote from: thelakelander on January 13, 2024, 05:25:41 PM
This is one was always more pie in the sky to me.....in that the renderings shown over the years were nothing more than massing models moreso than real projects that would be built anytime soon. This is a pretty large development site. I expect it to take a couple of decades to fully build out. With that said, consider us about one decade in already.
1st decade, horizontal/infrastructure; 2nd decade vertical/condos-hotels-etc.? I won't be here to see it.