Jacksonville Landing: The Civic Council Speaks

[jcjohnpaint]

"I'll make you all pay with more shopping centers"!  And a sigh of relief from our city council

[edjax]

This way he can say since you won't fund my plans for the Landing you need to extend the Mobility Plan moratorium for ever so I can build more shopping centers. 

[urbanlibertarian]

Just sell Toney the land under the Landing, already, and let him do his redevelopment with private money.

[AuditoreEnterprise]

So let me see if I understand this. The guy that wants to re develop doesn't own the building or just doesn't own the land it sits on?

[Tacachale]

He owns the building, but the city owns the land.

[AuditoreEnterprise]

Ok now it makes a bit more sense. Thanks

[downtownbrown]

I wonder how the City Council's reluctance to fund downtown projects affects Shad Khan's thinking about the Shipyards.  If I were Shad, I'd want to see the city acting as co-developer of the surrounding neighborhood.

[AuditoreEnterprise]

That's a good point Downtownbrown. They need to pump some funding into something otherwise the list of projects will stack up a mile high and then what? they end up looking biased towards one person or the other. I would imagine though Shad has the capital to do pretty much whatever he wants with or without the city's help. I do think that the city's reluctance to assist others in major endeavors such as the landing will affect his decision on that project. I will be curious to see what he says when that announcement comes.

[Bill Hoff]

Well that was a quick change in priority!

A quick pivot is a valuable ability.

On Madden, the guys with 92+ agility are awesome.

Now, let's build some strip malls on the outer beltway!