Peyton turns focus to artists community with downtown development plan

[reednavy]

lol you are a pathetic soul

The troll being trolled, then responding to it.

Priceless

[mtraininjax]

Peyton is an idiot, but he is pushing everything in the last 18 months to get stuff to stick to the wall and create a legacy. He has no money, next year's budget deficit will be worse than last. He is an idiot of a leader and we all know it, so why is everyone drinking the Kool-Aid thinking he can get THIS passed, when the city has no money for toilet paper at City Hall?

[fsu813]

"I emailed councilman Gaffney about this. Haven't heard back yet."

- he has someone respond for him most of the time.

[vicupstate]

Peyton is an idiot, but he is pushing everything in the last 18 months to get stuff to stick to the wall and create a legacy. He has no money, next year's budget deficit will be worse than last. He is an idiot of a leader and we all know it, so why is everyone drinking the Kool-Aid thinking he can get THIS passed, when the city has no money for toilet paper at City Hall?

He has $24mm and plans to spend it.

[Noone]

FSU you are right about that. Still haven't heard back. The 3 pieces of legislation in three different council districts Jones, Redman, and Gaffney will be in Finance Thurs. After that they can be voted on and passed at the next city council meeting.

Gaffney can offer an ammendment to put some of the $8.2 million toward the 680' Public Pier. Any amount will show the citizens of Jacksonville and more importantly that the Peyton administration is serious about economic opportunity and Public Access to the St. Johns River.

tufsu, How about the power of 10 containers for Public spaces?

This can legislatively occur next week.

Saw todays editorial by William Cessary. Development is on the horizon. What would he say about an ART container on the Public pier and a tie in with the former library with an Art connection.
I'll try and find out.

Anybody feeling it?

Lets Fix It Now

[mtraininjax]

He has $24mm and plans to spend it.

Actually none of that money is earmarked for fixing downtown buildings

The money will be divided into three main projects: $11.9 million to repair the Southbank Riverwalk; $8.2 million for the first phase of enhancements to Metropolitan Park; and $3.2 million to fix and landscape Friendship Fountain.

- Florida Times Union, January 8, 2010.

Again, another "building block" Mr. Mayor, for the next Mayor get caught in.

[Sportmotor]

lol you are a pathetic soul

The troll being trolled, then responding to it.

Priceless

touche

[finehoe]

Looks like Peyton has finally discovered Richard Florida.

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0205.florida.html

Eight years after the fact, but like someone said above, better late than never.

[billy]

Doesn't Mr. Florida have a new idea about how to spur growth, or predict where it will be sustained?

[finehoe]

Doesn't Mr. Florida have a new idea about how to spur growth, or predict where it will be sustained?

What will this geography look like? It will likely be sparser in the Midwest and also, ultimately, in those parts of the Southeast that are dependent on manufacturing. Its suburbs will be thinner and its houses, perhaps, smaller. Some of its southwestern cities will grow less quickly. Its great mega-regions will rise farther upward and extend farther outward. It will feature a lower rate of homeownership, and a more mobile population of renters. In short, it will be a more concentrated geography, one that allows more people to mix more freely and interact more efficiently in a discrete number of dense, innovative mega-regions and creative cities. Serendipitously, it will be a landscape suited to a world in which petroleum is no longer cheap by any measure. But most of all, it will be a landscape that can accommodate and accelerate invention, innovation, and creationâ€"the activities in which the U.S. still holds a big competitive advantage.

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200903/meltdown-geography