QuoteBy Marilyn Young, Editor
As Florida Coastal School of Law President Dennis Stone looked out the upper-story windows of several Downtown buildings, he liked the view.
He could see the Duval County Courthouse, the federal courthouse and several law firms.
But, he could imagine so much more.
Stone could picture his school's several hundred students becoming part of Downtown. Going to school there. Working there. Living there.
School officials toured several buildings last week as part of the renewed mission to relocate in the urban core.
That mission is two-fold, though, because the law school will have to find a tenant to sublease the bulk of the space it is currently occupying in its building on Baypine Road. The school still has 16 years on the lease there.
Stone said there has been "strong interest" in the site off Baymeadows Road but, "in this business, until the papers are signed" nothing is certain.
Without a tenant to take over that space, he said, moving Downtown isn't financially possible.
And even with a tenant, the school will be seeking some level of financial incentives from the city, Stone said.
Downtown Investment Authority CEO Aundra Wallace sees the value of having another higher-learning institution join Florida State College at Jacksonville in the urban core.
"When you look at metropolitan cities, they have some large-scale commitment from educational institutions," he said.
The school would certainly add to the vibrancy of Downtown, Wallace said.
Full article: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=546350
The difference is that this headline is accurate.
Quote from: stephendare on October 19, 2015, 01:22:01 PM
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,25147.0.html
Quote from: ProjectMaximus on August 31, 2015, 02:31:22 PM
Quote from: stephendare on August 31, 2015, 01:28:26 PM
Quote from: ProjectMaximus on August 31, 2015, 01:26:03 PM
That's nice to know. It's good that they see downtown as the place to be.
Really with this headline, Stephen?
Are we going to go through another round of title parsing? And yes, that is the goal of the institution, especially with the closure of the art institute, their educational neighbor at their present location.
Two editors of two publications read the story the same way.
Here is Marilyn's headline from the Daily Record:
Florida Coastal School of Law taking first step in plan to get Downtown
Mine is from several discussions about the relocation plans over the past few months.
??? You're much brighter than this, Stephen. Your headline and the Daily Record's headline mean completely different things.
Normally I just roll my eyes when you do this, but today was slightly different cause you actually fooled me. I saw the headline and clicked on the thread and literally read the first line before getting interrupted. In the intervening 10 minutes I jumped the gun and told two people about the potential news, before I got back to the thread and read the second line. Anyway I have learned my lesson. If it happens again then shame on me. ;)
I guess it 'happened again' PM. ;)
I think the two threads speak for themselves, Stephen.
Quote from: stephendare on October 19, 2015, 04:31:49 PM
They certainly do. In other words, the story was accurately reported from the beginning, despite your somewhat abrasive comments to the contrary.
Unless of course you kids would like to explain to the law school that they aren't really relocating downtown
riiight. I won't comment on this anymore but if someone reads what you said and what was reported, that's good enough for me!
Also in all sincerity, I apologize to you, Stephen, if my comments in the other thread were abrasive.
A "School of Law" looking downtown for a possible site for relocation. Too bad we don't have an empty courthouse sitting there..................