San Marco Station Project Takes Shape

[Ocklawaha]

How exactly will Riverside/Avondale learn from this? Do we have empty parking lots now and fields we can tap into? Just curious....for parking reasons, of course. By the way, nothing is stopping restaurants under 150 seats from opening in our area, in fact a new one is coming to Avondale.

These arguments are odd, I went by Avondale village several weekday's around 5-7 pm and consistently counted over 50 vacant parking spaces, none of which were outside the bounds of the shops area.

[mtraininjax]

several weekday's around 5-7 pm

Its not the weekdays that are the issue, go there tonight between the same time to get a dose of what is an issue.  It was a thick issue last night, cars parked past Edgewood along St. Johns....

[edjax]

What is going on with this project?  Dead?

[dougskiles]

As far as I know, it is still very much alive.

[edjax]

Thanks for the update. It just seems for a fairly small project and all the hype about it early on that taking this long to simply break ground is not a good sign.

[Nicole Ash]

Construction has begun on the site. Foundation was poured last week for Panera and a third building is in the plans. Work on the brick building is being held in abeyance until the tenant has been decided on.

[thelakelander]

Thanks for the update, Nicole and welcome to Metro Jacksonville! We're all looking forward to seeing this exciting project rise.

[Nicole Ash]

No problem! I'm excited to be involved!

[Tacachale]

I was over by there yesterday and they're definitely turning dirt now. Do we have an estimated completion date?

[ProjectMaximus]

Hey, permit for a new building on the site! Or was that the original plan?

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=539843

[dougskiles]

^part of the original plan.

[JUGrad]

Panera is back in San Marco! 

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=541349