2012 State Of Downtown Jacksonville Report Released

[mtraininjax]

Metro Park's numbers are a joke. Good thing those people in St. Nicholas can sleep well 362 nights a year.

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Downtown is perfect for singles and people out of college, meet someone, fall in love and move to a burb, to raise a family and go to school. What choices does a downtown family have for Elementary, MIddle and High School if in 32202? North Riverside for Elementary comes to mind, Lee for HS? Lee is improving, but not sure about the others, and these are only public with no charters involved. I don't see much of a draw for kids, unless the downtown art programs are expanded with monopoly money.

[Noone]

OK- Projects Completed -2012
Catherine St. Riverwalk Connection to Bay St. $300,000

Proposed Projects

Hogans Creek Greenway - $8,200,000 Is there an amendment to 2013-384 for 24/7 access to Hogans Creek? Friendly amendment.

I95 Overland Bridge Reconstruction - $227,000,000 Artificial Reefs in the river south of the Fuller Warren.

Old St. Luke's Hospital and Casket Factory -$1,250,000 Public Access to Hogans Creek?

Southbank Riverwalk -$15,000,000 Will there be 24/7 Public Access to the new floating dock?

South Shore Marina- What's That? $6,400,000

[Noone]

^When is the next Public meeting on any of this? DIA? OED? DVI? Chamber? Jacksonville Waterways Commission meeting 8 days out. HUGE!

[Argylian]

South Shore Marina- What's That? $6,400,000

There's a piece of property adjacent to the DCPS building on the southbank. It's city owned. Possibly something they'd like to develop into a public-private commercial property.

[thelakelander]

^The South Shore Marina is a long proposed marina that will eventually be constructed at the Aetna Building or whatever it's called today. Argylian, the property I think you're talking about is the JEA parcel.

[GoldenEst82]

Metro Park's numbers are a joke. Good thing those people in St. Nicholas can sleep well 362 nights a year.

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Downtown is perfect for singles and people out of college, meet someone, fall in love and move to a burb, to raise a family and go to school. What choices does a downtown family have for Elementary, MIddle and High School if in 32202? North Riverside for Elementary comes to mind, Lee for HS? Lee is improving, but not sure about the others, and these are only public with no charters involved. I don't see much of a draw for kids, unless the downtown art programs are expanded with monopoly money.

Quality Edu is the 2nd biggest reason prohibiting families from moving DT- the first being an absence of apts big enough for a family of 4 or 5 (3br) or any housing of that size a family (and their exponentially increasing cost of living) could afford.

To the school issue- There is Susie Tolbert for elem, and Darnell Cookman for middle (and magnet HS?) and they then get shipped to Andrew Jackson- if your kid isn't an Artist (Lavilla) or has the grades to get into Stanton or Paxon.

I love living in the Core- but when I moved back to Jax from Fernandina, (I moved out there for the schools- but it is VERY expensive to live there.) I could not allow my kids to go back into the educational environments of the Core and adjacent area. I found a kind of "returning resident" form, and I now drive my kids out to Abbess Park, (Atl blvd and Kernan) an hour round trip, though we live on the Murray Hill/Riverside line.

If I knew my kids were going to have access to the kinds and quality of services that are available to them now, in a more socioeconomically diverse area; I would LOVE to NOT spend 2 hours of my day driving- in a car w/ no AC.