Aquarium could be coming to Jacksonville?

[Rynjny]

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/topstories/story/Aquarium-could-be-coming-to-Jacksonville/ZDoGFJgnNkuEDa9HYsz-BQ.cspx

What are the chances this will get done?

[thelakelander]

Good luck. However, if I had to place odds on it....

[Noone]

^Thats funny. Visit Jacksonville!

[Keith-N-Jax]

Would be nice, we'll see.

[I-10east]

LOL Lake

[Rynjny]

Pessimistic

[FSBA]

So for 1/3rd the cost of the Georgia Aquarium's construction we'll have an aquarium that will outdraw the zoo, make downtown come alive again, and not require a dime of taxpayer money?



How about the city just drops all of the anti-food truck nonsense and we'll call it even.

[Noone]

^Now we're talking. Still have an open contest if anyone can take a picture of the new Waterways signage that was never before Waterways and I will treat you to Chopstick Charley's and we will use Uber. Here is a clue. it's next to our St. Johns River our American Heritage River a FEDERAL Initiative in our new highly restricted (Food Truck, Kayak) DIA zone. PS. Also have a $15,000,000 Courthouse Pier as one Jacksonville Waterways Commission member put it when it was discovered At the 3/12/14 Jacksonville Waterways Commission meeting on a presentation regarding the Southbank River Walk Construction and Programming that we aren't replacing all of it on the Southbank.

[copperfiend]

Good luck. However, if I had to place odds on it....

What do you mean???

With an aquarium at one end and the Mooneyhan Studios at the other, downtown will be amazing.

[thelakelander]

^^

[Captain Zissou]

Uh oh!!! Sounds like an epic battle for the shipyard property! The space needle vs the aquarium.... Good thing the city didn't break up the large parcel and allow intuition to buy a small portion. these projects are totally going to require the whole land area and definitely get built. [/sarcasm]

[copperfiend]

Uh oh!!! Sounds like an epic battle for the shipyard property! The space needle vs the aquarium.... Good thing the city didn't break up the large parcel and allow intuition to buy a small portion. these projects are totally going to require the whole land area and definitely get built. [/sarcasm]

Would it be possible to build a space needle with a rotating aquarium at the top?

[urban_Savvy]

My favorite reason for building an aquarium is we don' t have a place where families can come to look at fish and other aquatic wildlife in north florida....
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...because apparently, its just too hard to look out into the ocean or down into the St. Johns River to see them.

[KenFSU]

Uh oh!!! Sounds like an epic battle for the shipyard property! The space needle vs the aquarium.... Good thing the city didn't break up the large parcel and allow intuition to buy a small portion. these projects are totally going to require the whole land area and definitely get built. [/sarcasm]

Would it be possible to build a space needle with a rotating aquarium at the top?

As long as they leave enough room for the world's largest climbing wall, built in the shape of the letters J-A-X.

http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php?topic=19167.0

[jcjohnpaint]

I love how the article always starts... If the organization "   " gets their way!