New Partnership Formed to Bring More Capital to Downtown Development

[MusicMan]

How long was John Delaney Mayor?  What about John Peyton?  All of these projects were on the board during the tenure of both of these guys, and they didn't do anything either.

Well we did get a $400 million courthouse. Can you imagine what we could have done had we budgeted $100 million to renovating the existing courthouse and used the remaining $300 million to finish all the other projects downtown?

Also, our Chamber of Commerce, in regard to their goal of improving downtown, is a failure. That's about the only conclusion left to draw at this point.

[ChriswUfGator]

That's not Jacksonville's style, MM. Around here it's always one 'transformative' pie in the sky after another. Building what makes sense, or what's affordable and doesn't destroy urban fabric, just isn't in the water here.

[tufsu1]

How long was John Delaney Mayor?  What about John Peyton?  All of these projects were on the board during the tenure of both of these guys, and they didn't do anything either.

Well we did get a $400 million courthouse. Can you imagine what we could have done had we budgeted $100 million to renovating the existing courthouse and used the remaining $300 million to finish all the other projects downtown?

Also, our Chamber of Commerce, in regard to their goal of improving downtown, is a failure. That's about the only conclusion left to draw at this point.

to be more accurate, we also got a new arena, a new ballpark, and a new library under Delaney (finished under Peyton)....and Peyton funded a refurbished Friendship Fountain and Southbank Riverwalk (finished under Brown).

and, btw, the existing courthouse was woefully undersized for our consolidated government....in fact, we outgrew it in the 1970s.

[vicupstate]

There was genuine momentum under Delaney, but Peyton pulled the plug on DT projects and the JEDC was budget cut into impotence it seems. The crash killed off what little momentum was left. Brown is only paying lip service and looking for his next gig.