JTA making progress on transportation center

[JaxNative68]

To clear things up:

Everbank is not moving any employees out of the Brooklyn office.  The plans to move the southside employees are still not yet finalized.  Even if they moved everyone, it still wouldn't be enough to overtake AT&T for naming rights.

Ceree Harden's office is in the Everbank building.  I don't believe that Paul Harden's office is.  Ceree is the President of Harden & Associates, an insurance and employee benefits company.  They occupy the top floor.

You are correct that the EverBank brooklyn employees will not be moving.  Although nothing more than test-fit space planning for preliminary pricing is all that has happened for EverBank within the AT&T building. still a long way to go for actual employee movement from the southside to downtown.

Ceree's office is on the 10th and part of the 9th floor of EB Plaza, EverBank has the 11th & 12th floors (the top two).  Paul Harden also has an office on the 9th floor, but a very small one.

[JaxNative68]

I also have not heard of EverBank wanting to tear down the Greyhound station.

[Coolyfett]

I have a feeling when everyone speaks of blight, they aren't talking about the building, which happens to be in pretty good shape.  I think most are afraid of the clientele. While, the clientele doesn't bother me one bit, it's clear in these conversations that a segment of our population has a problem with our urban core's demographics.

LOL wow Lake said what I was thinking lol. I have never heard of any crime at the Greyhound stations both in Atlanta & Jacksonville lol. People just waiting on their ride or waiting for their bus to leave. They not as high class as airport flyers so maybe that makes them look scary??/

[Jaxson]

I, too, have never heard of any crime at our Greyhound station.  I recently picked up a friend from the Greyhound station and did not observe much except for a few folks were watching a documentary about the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas.  I also noticed that the station looked like it needed some cleaning up.  But I did not really feel unsafe.

[mtraininjax]

But I did not really feel unsafe.

That is how I feel about all of downtown, I never feel unsafe, but they people who live in Ivory towers who never see downtown have a perception that wandering hoardes of human eating zombies are set to prey on them at the turn of every corner. I like downtown, its just that with 7 major restaurants in the Shops of Avondale, I never have to go downtown.

[Dashing Dan]

The problem with our existing bus terminal is that it has bus riders standing outside.  If they build a new bus terminal then there will still be bus riders standing outside. 

Instead of building a new place for bus riders to stand outside, why not just imagine that one of those bus riders is a younger version of either Clark Gable or Claudette Colbert?  One night it might happen.

[tufsu1]

The bus station should be in a location accessible to mass transit...so I have no issue with moving it to where Amtrak, skyway, and hopefully commuter rail will be....it would also be more convenirnt to I-95, which should be helpful to Greyhoun's schedule.

The issue here is what to do with the existing building...if anyone needs an example of an "ugly" Greyhound station made to look retro cool, look no further than Tallahassee...and all they really did was repaint the exterior. 

[JeffreyS]

Alvin's Facebook today said he is committed to our transit system and would like to ride the bus to work.

[Ralph W]

Peyton goes around with a couple of body guards. Do you think Brown's entourage would drive to Brown's house every morning, park their cars in his driveway, walk with him to the bus stop, ride to the office and then cool their heels with nothing but public transportation if they wanted to go somewhere in the city? Does the bus even run near Brown's neighborhood?

[Timkin]

It will if he is elected

[Dashing Dan]

The mayor of NYC has a big entourage and he uses transit sometimes.

[Jumpinjack]

 

The issue here is what to do with the existing building...if anyone needs an example of an "ugly" Greyhound station made to look retro cool, look no further than Tallahassee...and all they really did was repaint the exterior. 

Chic is just a paint coat away.

[Ocklawaha]

Got news for some of you... JTA building a "Greyhound Station" up on Adams, when the transportation center is at Bay and Lee, is anything BUT progress.  Dig the hole deeper and crawl inside boys and girls. This is insane.  As for "bus passengers standing outside...?" OMG, I went down to OIA and saw airplane passengers standing outside!! Then over at Amtrak, train passengers standing outside!! Perhaps we could move the stations to Everglades City.

OCKLAWAHA

[tufsu1]

Got news for some of you... JTA building a "Greyhound Station" up on Adams, when the transportation center is at Bay and Lee, is anything BUT progress. 

who said anything about where the station will be built?  I think all of that is once again open for discussion.

[Ocklawaha]

Got news for some of you... JTA building a "Greyhound Station" up on Adams, when the transportation center is at Bay and Lee, is anything BUT progress. 

who said anything about where the station will be built?  I think all of that is once again open for discussion.

Besides JTA and the JRTC plan, how about "At its April meeting, the JTA board authorized Blaylock to negotiate a deal with Greyhound that would have the bus company leave its existing location on North Pearl Street for a new $5 million terminal that JTA would build between Houston and Adams streets north of the Prime Osborn. Blaylock said he hopes to conclude an agreement later this month and bring it back to the board at JTA's May 26 meeting."

Discuss it if you wish, but these dopes have it written in stone.

OCKLAWAHA