If the days of downtowns w/ giant skyscrapers are over...... or at least much less in demand, what does this mean for downtown Jacksonville? It was already relatively empty.
Does this emphasize the need for remodling old buildings rather than empashis on building big and tall? More need to get more residential into the center?
Does it make projects like lot J more important?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/will-coronavirus-be-the-death-of-cities-not-so-fast-11607612400
"Perhaps the biggest change—& the one that looks most like a fundamental disruption—is in store for the CBDs of great cities, which pack & stack office workers in canyons of giant office towers. The pandemic has turned them into virtual dead zones"
There wasn't much of a need for high-rise space of any kind in downtown already. The need for infill when it comes along and makes sense, still remains. However, a larger emphasis will need to be placed on adaptive reuse and maximizing existing underutilized spaces. This means, some uses that we're traditionally used to seeing may give way to new uses that we've never imagined in the past. Whatever the case, it needs to be pedestrian scale and friendly.
I believe that high rise residential is the next big thing. Demand will drive the need for high rise and tall office buildings I think. And though I'm saddened by it (yawl know my position LOL), tall's and super tall demand in Jacksonville is probably gone forever. if anything is built that's tall, high rise or supertall, it will possibly be residential. Very few high rise office towers being built in CBD's these days, however, with high rises, that seems to be the thing. We shall see. Would be nice to see four or five 500+ footers in Jax's CBD in the residential vain.
I have to wonder what some suburban office parks (think Southpoint, Deerwood, Tinseltown, Philips/Baymeadows) would look like, downtown. Guessing that with the price of downtown real estate that would not be feasible for anyone to do. But it's kind of a nice shaded drive to take the long way to SJTC, or JTB to the beaches.