Hendricks Avenue: The Next Hot Urban District

[Metro Jacksonville]

Hendricks Avenue: The Next Hot Urban District



San Marco's Hendricks Avenue continues to emerge as Jacksonville's latest nightlife and dining district. Metro Jacksonville's Major Stephenson provides us with a closer look.

Read More: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2014-jan-hendricks-avenue-the-next-hot-urban-district

[Noone]

Very Positive.

[ben says]

What about the new bar across from Aardwolf: The Sidecar?

[thelakelander]

My first time hearing of it. Please do tell more? Will this bar be located in the building next to the new Panera or on the block with Green Erth?

[ben says]

My first time hearing of it. Please do tell more? Will this bar be located in the building next to the new Panera or on the block with Green Erth?

This is all they have up so far. I believe it'll be associated w/ (or attached to) Veloce pizza. Not 100% sure yet. More info to come (it's not my project, but I know the guy whose doing it)

[Bridges]

Good article.  Like seeing all the things happening there and in San Marco with the redesign of San Marco Blvd and Balis Park. 

What's funny though is my mindset about walkability.  From Aardwolf to Balis Park is about half a mile.  Just a ten minute walk.  Just a little bit further than Salty Fig to Lola's.  I think a lot has to do with the buffer from the street.  On King St. parking spots buffer you from traffic on the road so it doesn't feel like you're walking so close to traffic and vulnerable. 

I don't know, maybe it's just me. 

[BoldBoyOfTheSouth]

As a long time patron of San Marco restaurants, stores & movie theater & of course Theater Jacksonville, I'm so happy that they expanded neighborhood is becoming more walkable & urban.

[pierre]

Aardwolf is cool but why such an early last call? 11pm on a Saturday night?

[BoldBoyOfTheSouth]

Though, even with all of this extra retail space, soon the residents of San Marco will grow cranky at the parking issue and eventual run out of retail space, I do hope that people will another look at Edgewood Avenue in Murray Hill!

[urbanlibertarian]

Aardwolf is cool but why such an early last call? 11pm on a Saturday night?

For San Marco residents who work the evening shift the only option is Sherwoods, which is cool and all but can be too smoky for many.

[GreenBear]

Cool picture from the Green Lion Festival. Love it.

[thelakelander]

Though, even with all of this extra retail space, soon the residents of San Marco will grow cranky at the parking issue and eventual run out of retail space, I do hope that people will another look at Edgewood Avenue in Murray Hill!

There's enough room for all of Jax's older commercial districts to fill up with businesses once again.  The main reason most have fallen is because the urban core's population and density have dropped 50% since 1950. If we can get more of our established neighborhoods to stabilize their population decline and begin to see growth, many storefronts on streets like Main, McDuff, Phoenix, Kings, Myrtle, Edison, Philip Randolph, Moncrief, Edgewood, etc. will naturally see higher occupancy rates, regardless of what takes place in the suburbs and surrounding counties.

[thelakelander]

Good article.  Like seeing all the things happening there and in San Marco with the redesign of San Marco Blvd and Balis Park. 

What's funny though is my mindset about walkability.  From Aardwolf to Balis Park is about half a mile.  Just a ten minute walk.  Just a little bit further than Salty Fig to Lola's.  I think a lot has to do with the buffer from the street.  On King St. parking spots buffer you from traffic on the road so it doesn't feel like you're walking so close to traffic and vulnerable. 

I don't know, maybe it's just me. 

They illustrate the importance of context sensitive street design, the mobility fee's priority projects, bike/ped safety and highlight why our roadway design standards should be revamped. Hendricks is definitely a street where the continuous 12' wide center turn lane should have been omitted in the roadway's reconfiguration nearly 10 years ago. Without that center turn lane, there would have been room for wider sidewalks (outdoor dining opportunities) and more parking. Anyway, even now, it's not too late. It can still be "right-sized" by restriping. However, that means we'd have to be willing to give up a lane for cars in favor of the bike and pedestrian experience.

[Overstreet]

Y'all know the exit ramp from I-95 south to Hendricks Ave is going away with the Overland Bridge Project.

[tufsu1]

Y'all know the exit ramp from I-95 south to Hendricks Ave is going away with the Overland Bridge Project.

yes...starting next week