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[Timkin]

Is this why they will not tear this eyesore down?  I keep hearing it is getting torn down, but I still see a stripped out 4 story monster standing there.. Is this because of these issues?  I also heard it is on the site of a former coal gassification plant ??   True or false?  And then I hear that these allegations have no merit.. so what is true and what is not about Park View besides that I think most of us are in agreement that it DOES need to go. ?

[Ocklawaha]

Parkview sits on poison soils. The current dream sheets for the city planning office show the hotel gone, the soil cleaned up and the space shifted to become part of the Springfield Park System.  Hey as long as they can save the old Klutho building that once served as the area Cadillac Dealership, which I'm told is a twin to the classic prairie style building across the street, I'm all for it.

BTW a lot of towns and cities across the nation derive their primary revenues from TOURISTS...  90 miles south, for example.

Reno? Tonopah? Ely? Dateland? Banning? Palm Springs? El Portal? Tahoe? Monterey? Myrtle Beach? Daytona Beach? Williams AZ?

For those thinking we're not big enough for "another" downtown hotel... REALLY? Did you know that tourism is one of the top 5 income sources for DUVAL?  Consider too that we are a city of nearly 1.5 million persons, which equals a few hundred thousand jobs, which easily equals over 1,000 businesses + a highly transient military, and we are woefully behind places like Oklahoma City in our hotel rooms available. Jacksonville has a total of 108 hotels, with 14 listed as "green".  That makes us about even with Tuscon AZ which anyone from the west will smile and tell you is 500 miles from nowhere and 2 feet from HELL, I would think we should have a bit more sex appeal. Put another way, our numbers place us about 20 properties short of Myrtle Beach!


OCKLAWAHA

[Timkin]

I do not want to get totally off the subject.... where is the old Cadillac Dealership? Anyone have an aerial photo showing ParkView and  the Cadillac Dealership?  I think I know where it is but not sure.. Also the EH Thompson Building?  would this fall into the area that has bad soil under it ?

All I can say for the ParkView is the sooner its gone, the better.. even if all we look at is a weed patch , it would be a tremendous improvement to what is there.