DuPont Trust moving headquarters to Brooklyn

[vicupstate]

Such a prime riverfront and Riverwalk location, and it will merely be used for a single purpose, low density, run of the mill office building. 

Yet another dead zone along the Riverwalk, just like Fidelity, Haskell, TU offices, etc.  Only in jacksonville would something so valuable be so under appreciated and wasted. 

[thelakelander]

Here's a color coded overlay of the site plan for those who are having trouble reading it.



Yellow - 4 story office building - over 1 level parking garage
Green - covered one level parking garage with roof top courtyard
Purple - front entrance & gate surface parking lot

[hightowerlover]

i think that building is gorgeous and will be a nice sight from the river.  it will serve its purpose and add some more density to that side of brooklyn.  i'll take some more office space in a beautiful building over a dingy old fire station with the most interesting feature being the window air conditioner unit above the garage.

[thelakelander]

I'll take a couple of new modern buildings surrounding a cool themed restaurant housed in a renovated brick fire station with an interior set up taking advantage of turn-of-the-century building materials & techniques that can't be recreated next door.  In other words, hopefully we won't have to choose and we can have both.

[vicupstate]

i think that building is gorgeous and will be a nice sight from the river.  it will serve its purpose and add some more density to that side of brooklyn.  i'll take some more office space in a beautiful building over a dingy old fire station with the most interesting feature being the window air conditioner unit above the garage.

If all we are going to do, is destroy what is unique about Brooklyn, and put up Southpoint-style buildings in their place, why not just stay in Southpoint and save all the trouble. 


This building will be dwarfed and go largely unnoticed, surrounded by the much taller buildings.  The design is very commonplace.  How will Brooklyn be distinguished from any other office park elsewhere in Jax or the nation for that matter?  The answer is it won't be.

[gatorback]

I guess what I'm asking is is it LEED?