Ikea coming to Jacksonville

[edjax]

Not to mention the person in the article in the Times Union this morning complaining resides in Hampton Glen.  That is probably 3 miles from where the IKEA is to be located.

[jaxjags]

I've got "news" for them - This isn't the last new retailer coming to the area. Don't buy near an airport if you don't like noise.

[Adam White]

I've got "news" for them - This isn't the last new retailer coming to the area. Don't buy near an airport if you don't like noise.

Yeah, the way they're acting, you'd think someone was proposing a pizza parlor in the midst of an historic district's shopping area.

[Tacachale]

I've got "news" for them - This isn't the last new retailer coming to the area. Don't buy near an airport if you don't like noise.

Yeah, the way they're acting, you'd think someone was proposing a pizza parlor in the midst of an historic district's shopping area.

HA!

[TimmyB]

Yes, I want to live on a five-lane street, with an entrance to an Interstate highway within a couple of blocks, and easy access to SJTC.  But, I don't want traffic, and I don't want noise!!!  <<sigh>>

[mtraininjax]

I hear Satsuma, FL is nice this time of year and the oranges are about to be nice and ripe...

[thelakelander]

New toll lanes will hopefully bring solution to Ikea-related crowding

Residents near Jacksonville's Southside have raised concerns about how one of Jacksonville's biggest new business developments — the arrival of Ikea — will affect the area's already-congested roadways.

But at least one new project will hopefully ease the area near the St. Johns Center at I-295 and Gate Parkway, thanks to a late update that will allow it to continue as planned.

The Florida Department of Transportation will be able to go ahead with construction on its toll road system on I-295 between State Road 9B and J. Turner Butler Blvd. On Thursday, a lawsuit against FDOT's contract for the project and that held up construction was dropped.

FDOT Spokesman Ron Tittle said construction will begin in spring of next year, with an open house for public comment slated for January or February.

Full article: http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2015/11/09/new-toll-lanes-will-hopefully-bring-solution-to.html

[pierre]

New toll lanes will hopefully bring solution to Ikea-related crowding

Residents near Jacksonville's Southside have raised concerns about how one of Jacksonville's biggest new business developments — the arrival of Ikea — will affect the area's already-congested roadways.

But at least one new project will hopefully ease the area near the St. Johns Center at I-295 and Gate Parkway, thanks to a late update that will allow it to continue as planned.

The Florida Department of Transportation will be able to go ahead with construction on its toll road system on I-295 between State Road 9B and J. Turner Butler Blvd. On Thursday, a lawsuit against FDOT's contract for the project and that held up construction was dropped.

FDOT Spokesman Ron Tittle said construction will begin in spring of next year, with an open house for public comment slated for January or February.

Full article: http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2015/11/09/new-toll-lanes-will-hopefully-bring-solution-to.html

As someone who drives on that stretch every morning, I can tell you that the NB section from Phillips to JTB is an absolute mess. Thankfully I am going the other way towards St Augustine.

[KenFSU]

105-acre mixed-use development announced just north of IKEA.

http://jacksonville.com/business/real-estate/2016-01-25/story/105-acre-development-planned-gate-parkway

I wonder if this has been in the planning stages for a long time, or if it's the honest-to-goodness IKEA effect in play.

[Captain Zissou]

^The article states that this projects precedes IKEA. 

[spuwho]

New toll lanes will hopefully bring solution to Ikea-related crowding

Residents near Jacksonville's Southside have raised concerns about how one of Jacksonville's biggest new business developments — the arrival of Ikea — will affect the area's already-congested roadways.

But at least one new project will hopefully ease the area near the St. Johns Center at I-295 and Gate Parkway, thanks to a late update that will allow it to continue as planned.

The Florida Department of Transportation will be able to go ahead with construction on its toll road system on I-295 between State Road 9B and J. Turner Butler Blvd. On Thursday, a lawsuit against FDOT's contract for the project and that held up construction was dropped.

FDOT Spokesman Ron Tittle said construction will begin in spring of next year, with an open house for public comment slated for January or February.

Full article: http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2015/11/09/new-toll-lanes-will-hopefully-bring-solution-to.html

As someone who drives on that stretch every morning, I can tell you that the NB section from Phillips to JTB is an absolute mess. Thankfully I am going the other way towards St Augustine.

Unfortunately when FDOT redesigned the 9B/795 interchange from a rural flyover to an urban style to support the toll road they didnt extend the third lane coming east from Philips Highway. They procrastinated on it so they could fund it with toll money.

Personally I find that design change ridiculous as they still could have accomodated the flyover and the toll lanes, but if you recall, FDOT stalled 9B due to soaring concrete costs.

When they revived it, the contractor redesigned it to meet the budget at hand and still work with a future toll lane. So that with the lawsuit created this completely unnecessary bottleneck where you have essentially 5 lanes coming down to 2 in only a mile and a half.

And if you think its bad now. Just wait when I-795 NB opens at I-95. People are going to be fuming at the backups on I-795.

[Kerry]

I am thankful everyday I sold my house in James Island.  Traffic in the area was already bad and it is about to get insanely bad.

[ProjectMaximus]

We always bemoan our bad luck so I thought I'd share some of the opposite (well depends on your POV I suppose)

IKEA is adjusting its business model and will likely be moving focus away from its traditional (and recognizable) big box stores to smaller footprint, urban-type showrooms driven by online sales.

This means that in just the past week IKEA has canceled much anticipated developments for its first stores in Nashville and Raleigh and a second store in the Phoenix area. We were in just the right spot in line to see our store through the finish line...

(Or otoh could it mean a massive vast deserted warehouse in the middle of the town center waiting to be redeveloped in 5 years  )

https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2018/05/29/ikea-store-location-nashville-antioch-near-me/654149002/

[KenFSU]

^Great point.

Our timing couldn't have been better.

Feel bad for Nashville, I believe they'd already started infrastructure projects to accommodate IKEA.