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The mayor's office has used past public charettes on redeveloping the Jacksonville Landing held in 2014-15 to justify its controversial push to quickly bulldoze the building. But as the administration now acknowledges, that discussion never gave the public the chance to weigh in on adaptive reuse. Now that the Landing is in public hands, the public should have that chance before the city makes an expensive, irreversible decision.
Read more: https://www.thejaxsonmag.com/article/theres-been-no-public-input-on-reusing-the-landing/
Interesting.......
QuoteMayor Curry's administration and the DIA have worked together on a number of adaptive reuse projects. Cowford Chophouse was completed. The Barnett Bank building is nearly completed. The Laura Street trio, the Ambassador Hotel, and the Jones Furniture building are all in various states of progress using existing architectural structures to preserve iconic architecture and maintain aesthetic character for our downtown.
Don't all of these precede Curry's time in office? The Barnett/Laura Street started in 2010 or before, same with the ambassador.
If the City is actually open to public comment, I will share a project that I've worked on the past couple years that is now under construction on the waterfront in South Florida. The developer is a legitimate billionaire and could have designed and constructed anything he wanted.
He chose to design the building to look like an old Florida fish market/cannery. The Landing was not an inspirational image for the design, however, the form of the building is very similar to the two waterfront facing wings (where Hooters and the Sushi place were). Those two buildings could easily be re-purposed to look exactly like what this billionaire developer is paying a ton of money to develop. I'm having lunch with the developer soon and will see if I can share some images and quotes in the context of the Landing.
Quote from: Captain Zissou on May 28, 2019, 09:30:46 AM
QuoteMayor Curry's administration and the DIA have worked together on a number of adaptive reuse projects. Cowford Chophouse was completed. The Barnett Bank building is nearly completed. The Laura Street trio, the Ambassador Hotel, and the Jones Furniture building are all in various states of progress using existing architectural structures to preserve iconic architecture and maintain aesthetic character for our downtown.
Don't all of these precede Curry's time in office? The Barnett/Laura Street started in 2010 or before, same with the ambassador.
I think that statement is fair. The Curry administration has worked on them, and in some cases like the Barnett/Laura Trio and Cowford, got them moving forward. However, it just provides another reason that adaptive reuse should be explored for the Landing. If we've successfully done it with buildings that are objectively in worse shape, why not do it with something we just spent $22 million on?
Quote from: CityLife on May 28, 2019, 10:21:06 AM
If the City is actually open to public comment, I will share a project that I've worked on the past couple years that is now under construction on the waterfront in South Florida. The developer is a legitimate billionaire and could have designed and constructed anything he wanted.
He chose to design the building to look like an old Florida fish market/cannery. The Landing was not an inspirational image for the design, however, the form of the building is very similar to the two waterfront facing wings (where Hooters and the Sushi place were). Those two buildings could easily be re-purposed to look exactly like what this billionaire developer is paying a ton of money to develop. I'm having lunch with the developer soon and will see if I can share some images and quotes in the context of the Landing.
Thanks for sharing. We'd love to hear more about that.
Quote from: Tacachale on May 28, 2019, 11:12:45 AM
Quote from: Captain Zissou on May 28, 2019, 09:30:46 AM
QuoteMayor Curry's administration and the DIA have worked together on a number of adaptive reuse projects. Cowford Chophouse was completed. The Barnett Bank building is nearly completed. The Laura Street trio, the Ambassador Hotel, and the Jones Furniture building are all in various states of progress using existing architectural structures to preserve iconic architecture and maintain aesthetic character for our downtown.
Don't all of these precede Curry's time in office? The Barnett/Laura Street started in 2010 or before, same with the ambassador.
I think that statement is fair. The Curry administration has worked on them, and in some cases like the Barnett/Laura Trio and Cowford, got them moving forward. However, it just provides another reason that adaptive reuse should be explored for the Landing. If we've successfully done it with buildings that are objectively in worse shape, why not do it with something we just spent $22 million on?
Because we have a downtown that is 3/4th empty and not a developer in sight who is ready to put $100 million into adapting a failed 1980s mall into something useable.
For a mere $2 million we ensure we don't have another Berk II lurking about, empty, always looking for someone.
Quote from: bl8jaxnative on May 28, 2019, 03:26:46 PM
Quote from: Tacachale on May 28, 2019, 11:12:45 AM
Quote from: Captain Zissou on May 28, 2019, 09:30:46 AM
QuoteMayor Curry's administration and the DIA have worked together on a number of adaptive reuse projects. Cowford Chophouse was completed. The Barnett Bank building is nearly completed. The Laura Street trio, the Ambassador Hotel, and the Jones Furniture building are all in various states of progress using existing architectural structures to preserve iconic architecture and maintain aesthetic character for our downtown.
Don't all of these precede Curry's time in office? The Barnett/Laura Street started in 2010 or before, same with the ambassador.
I think that statement is fair. The Curry administration has worked on them, and in some cases like the Barnett/Laura Trio and Cowford, got them moving forward. However, it just provides another reason that adaptive reuse should be explored for the Landing. If we've successfully done it with buildings that are objectively in worse shape, why not do it with something we just spent $22 million on?
Because we have a downtown that is 3/4th empty and not a developer in sight who is ready to put $100 million into adapting a failed 1980s mall into something useable.
For a mere $2 million we ensure we don't have another Berk II lurking about, empty, always looking for someone.
*$22 million. And rising. And you have no clue that no developers are interested in the Landing considering that demolition is being pushed through with no plan and no public comment.
Why would anyone spend $100 million in renovation? There's nothing structurally wrong with that building. The issues are purely cosmetic and programming related.