A New Look For Riverside Avenue

[Metro Jacksonville]

A New Look For Riverside Avenue



EUJacksonville's Morgan Henley summarizes the major developments happening on Riverside Avenue/Brooklyn. Henley describes the Riverside Ave developments as examples of public, private and nonprofit organizations working together to create what may become one of the more interesting corridors in Jacksonville.

Full Article
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2013-aug-a-new-look-for-riverside-avenue

[Noone]

The Riverwalk Project and a Fith major area that would be PUBLIC Access to our St. Johns River our American Heritage River a FEDERAL Initiative in our new highly restricted DIA zone.

So will the RAM dock now be opened when RAM is not open?  A kayak logo for Sydney Geffen Park? An amendment to 2013-384 for access to Hogans Creek? Will the proposed new floating dock on the Southbank have 24/7 Public Access?

The Riverwalk Project presented at Waterways prior to One Spark and my first reaction was a presentation on Shipyards. Remember Shipyards? $36,500,000 of taxpayer money gone. 150 slip marina and not one slip for the Public. 16 acres of Public Space. Landmar comes in. 16 acres of Public Space reduced to 8 acres. 150 slip marina and not one slip for the Public. Also the ability to shut down the Riverwalk 12 times a year. Now our new DIA and at a Downtown Experience Committee meeting of the DIA sitting next to Scott Wilson during the pre 30 day posting of an RFI or RFP on Shipyards I asked If anyone wanted to use the existing floating dock that is the only Public Access point to this 40 plus acres of Public property from the water for recreational or commercial purposes can you. And the immediate response back from Tony Allegretti and Paul Crawford was NO! NO! NO! Back me up on that Scott.

And for some of my fellow MJ'ers and you know who you are we have all given up asking you know who about you know what.

The Riverwalk Project would not be complete without my favorite. The Jim Love, Kevin Kuzel, 26'Berkman floating dock compromise (Shipyards III) Misrepresented by OGC to the Jacksonville Waterways Commission during the 2013 FIND grant application process.

An app for Health,
                Environment,
                Arts and Entertainment,
                History
Future apps should include:
                Access
                Corruption
Palms Fish Camp- A million bucks and you never even open the door.
Waterways 3 days out. Anyone want to donate a buck to 2009-442 The Artificial Reef Trust Fund?
CCA- Corrupt Council Area Reef an App for that too.

[simms3]

Going back to this article since it harps on design and planning for new development in this confined area, I came across what I think is a relevant local article from today talking about a new infill multifamily development in a lower-density, gentrifying area of town.  Quotes and pictures below, as well as link.  I hope we can up our standards going forward in terms of design, layout, spatiality, integration, etc.  Charlotte, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Austin, and Nashville aren't really even putting up anything this refined, but it doesn't mean a "behind" city like Jax can't spontaneously figure how to up the bar similarly and keep rents market.

http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2013/10/permits_to_redevelop_entire_soma_block_close_to_being_a.html#more

The permits to demolish the little maintenance buildings and three acre bus depot at 8th and Harrison in order to make way for eight buildings with 408 new rental units over ground floor retail, arts, and commercial space are close to being approved, as is the permit to construct the five and six-story 350 8th Street buildings which is currently on hold in order to resolve some issues with respect to the street and sidewalk improvements attached to the plans (click images to enlarge).



The 350 8th Street project's 315 off-street parking spaces for cars and 414 spaces for bikes will mostly be located underground or within the interior of the Stud-adjacent site.



In addition to 44,000 square feet of open space throughout the development, the project includes a 5,400 square foot public plaza and café on the corner of 8th and Ringold:





Construction is currently slated to start in early 2014.

[thelakelander]

Great looking project. It will be nice if Jax can start to see stuff of similar density and pedestrian scale interactivity come online.

[jaxlore]

+1