Here is an article about how Des Moines, Iowa is fixing their downtown.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/realestate/commercial/17desmoines.html?ex=1282021200&en=171fdb7ce11ba7b3&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=RE-D-I-NYT-MOD-M2D-M137-ROS-0210-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click
Doesn't reading the first part make you sick? Blue Cross and Blue Shield built a large office building in Downtown! we cant even convince BCBS of FL to build in DT Jax, instead they build a huge sprawling campus off JTB. Guess land is cheaper in Downtown Des Moines, IA than it is in the suburbs there.
If I am reading this correctly it is a five story building that occupies three city blocks. Couldn't they build up a little bit more?
The picture makes it look taller than 5 stories....also they state there are 75,000 employees in downtown Des Moines.
Some of their downtown figures seem a little high considering the city size.
I wish we had a university in the core.
It is also the state capitol.
What does Jacksonville need to do to lure some type of higher learning institution downtown? I have heard people say the Art Institute would be great downtown. What about having the University of Florida open a branch campus downtown?
Any thoughts????
As long as your proposed school isn't a branch of a new state medical school or Florida Coastal School of Law, I am sure the city would love to have it downtown...
QuoteWhat about having the University of Florida open a branch campus downtown?
Technically, the UF Medical School does have a branch at Shands. I realize it is not downtown though.
As has been discussed on this site previously, the rumor was that FCSL was looking at downtown but wasn't getting a whole lot of cooperation from the City so they relocated to Baymenadows in the old Citi building.