Music industry vet with film experience wants to buy Prime Osborn for $40M

[Rynjny]

Anybody think this is going to happen?. I think this would be good for Downtown.

http://jacksonville.com/business/2012-03-13/story/thinking-big-he-wants-bring-piece-hollywood-jacksonville

[Anti redneck]

That sounds awesome. It won't surprise me if something falls through, though.

[ProjectMaximus]

Mooneyhan is back!! Hahaha. New thread at least. And new article

[Rynjny]

Mooneyhan is back!! Hahaha. New thread at least. And new article

So no chance of this happening?. sounds like he really want to do this.

[Tacachale]

Ah, Mooneyhan. The guy's persistent, I'll give him that.

Rynjny, I wouldn't say there's no chance. I'd say there's not much evidence in the guy's background to think there would be a chance. It's a nice dream, but many pie-in-the-sky projects are.

[duvaldude08]

Youve got to be shitting me!! Mooneyhan!!! Again?? This guy just wont go away!

[Anti redneck]

From the way these posts sound, the guy coming back is a bad thing. Sounds to me like he wants to bring something good into the city.

[Ocklawaha]

From the way these posts sound, the guy coming back is a bad thing. Sounds to me like he wants to bring something good into the city.

How could giving the key piece of transportation property and the number one location for a mass transit hub in the southeast to some movie guy be a good thing?

Even if he had all of the money in the Fort Knox, allowing anything else to happen to that property to further hinder it ever being used for transportation purposes again would be a disaster catastrophe.

That building, properly known as JACKSONVILLE TERMINAL STATION, is and always has been the largest and busiest railroad station in America south of Washington, D.C..  I don't care if it was MICKEY or MOONEYHAN, assuming he had the funds, which I seriously doubt, they need to keep their paws off of it.

His plans for the old station have been around for some time, and I'd consider his reuse of this property akin to leveling San Marco for a Wal Mart Super-Center...  A nice shiny super center! RETCH! URP! @#$%^%!!@@#^&%!

[mtraininjax]

Have the suitcases of cash show up at City Hall. We took our last check with Cameron Kuhn. Cash money talks....

[Anti redneck]

From the way these posts sound, the guy coming back is a bad thing. Sounds to me like he wants to bring something good into the city.

How could giving the key piece of transportation property and the number one location for a mass transit hub in the southeast to some movie guy be a good thing?

Even if he had all of the money in the Fort Knox, allowing anything else to happen to that property to further hinder it ever being used for transportation purposes again would be a disaster catastrophe.

That building, properly known as JACKSONVILLE TERMINAL STATION, is and always has been the largest and busiest railroad station in America south of Washington, D.C..  I don't care if it was MICKEY or MOONEYHAN, assuming he had the funds, which I seriously doubt, they need to keep their paws off of it.

His plans for the old station have been around for some time, and I'd consider his reuse of this property akin to leveling San Marco for a Wal Mart Super-Center...  A nice shiny super center! RETCH! URP! @#$%^%!!@@#^&%!

How often is the terminal used?

[Jason]

Here are the photos from the architect's webite.


Marketing Info....
http://www.bastienarchitects.com/Mooneyhan_Studios_Marketing_Page.pdf

[duvaldude08]

From the way these posts sound, the guy coming back is a bad thing. Sounds to me like he wants to bring something good into the city.

How could giving the key piece of transportation property and the number one location for a mass transit hub in the southeast to some movie guy be a good thing?

Even if he had all of the money in the Fort Knox, allowing anything else to happen to that property to further hinder it ever being used for transportation purposes again would be a disaster catastrophe.

That building, properly known as JACKSONVILLE TERMINAL STATION, is and always has been the largest and busiest railroad station in America south of Washington, D.C..  I don't care if it was MICKEY or MOONEYHAN, assuming he had the funds, which I seriously doubt, they need to keep their paws off of it.

His plans for the old station have been around for some time, and I'd consider his reuse of this property akin to leveling San Marco for a Wal Mart Super-Center...  A nice shiny super center! RETCH! URP! @#$%^%!!@@#^&%!

How often is the terminal used?

Regardless, Id rather see it used for a transportation center, would we be used. Versus selling it to some guy with a pipe in the sky pipe dream that he wont let go. What IF we sell it to him, then his financing for the project falls through? Where would that leave us?

[Rynjny]

From the way these posts sound, the guy coming back is a bad thing. Sounds to me like he wants to bring something good into the city.

How could giving the key piece of transportation property and the number one location for a mass transit hub in the southeast to some movie guy be a good thing?

Even if he had all of the money in the Fort Knox, allowing anything else to happen to that property to further hinder it ever being used for transportation purposes again would be a disaster catastrophe.

That building, properly known as JACKSONVILLE TERMINAL STATION, is and always has been the largest and busiest railroad station in America south of Washington, D.C..  I don't care if it was MICKEY or MOONEYHAN, assuming he had the funds, which I seriously doubt, they need to keep their paws off of it.

His plans for the old station have been around for some time, and I'd consider his reuse of this property akin to leveling San Marco for a Wal Mart Super-Center...  A nice shiny super center! RETCH! URP! @#$%^%!!@@#^&%!

How often is the terminal used?

Regardless, Id rather see it used for a transportation center, would we be used. Versus selling it to some guy with a pipe in the sky pipe dream that he wont let go. What IF we sell it to him, then his financing for the project falls through? Where would that leave us?

Then they should make the transportation center happen instead of letting it sit there like an abandon building. Any development are better than what they have right now.

[urbanlibertarian]

"Then they should make the transportation center happen instead of letting it sit there like an abandon building. Any development are better than what they have right now."

Abandoned building?  They do have quite a few events there.

http://www.jaxevents.com/venues/prime-f-osborn-iii-convention-center/

[thelakelander]

Have the suitcases of cash show up at City Hall.

I agree with this.  Although I don't agree with killing off downtown's last chance to serve as a regional multimodal hub, if he's real show up with $40 million in cash.  That will get the conversation going.