Laura Street Trio developer says pieces are in place — except for city funding

[thelakelander]

The possibility of funding dimmed in late January when Mayor Lenny Curry's chief administrative officer told the DIA there would be no investment from the city until a fix to the city's pension issues is found.

"I support what the mayor wants to do with the pension fund," Atkins said. "That doesn't mean the private sector doesn't want to assist with more than one thing at a time."

Atkins told the Jacksonville Business Journal that some of his potential tenants are willing to wait, but they won't be willing to wait forever.
He also pointed out that there are rumblings that the economic cycle could be turning, and that even if he started construction today, the Barnett Bank Building would take about 10 to 12 months and the Laura Street Trio would take about 20 to 22 months to deliver.

Full article: www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2016/02/18/laura-street-trio-developer-says-pieces-are-in.html

[Tacachale]

He sure can stay in the news.

[Steve]

Seriously-hasn't this been the status for like 2 years?

[SunKing]

Interesting comment about having the money to settle with Khan.  i had not been aware of that.  Changes my perspective a bit if true.

[whyisjohngalt]

He doesn't have the money or we wouldn't be in this situation.  Never made a mortgage payment and foreclosure is a surprise?

[Glue182]

He won't give his real name because he wants to talk out of his ass on issues that he knows nothing about... In fact, he wanted the Barnett for himself but failed, just like he did on his other attempts at downtown projects.  Jealously is an ugly trait.  Atkins' financing is solid.

[heights unknown]

In my 20 years working for the government I learned the following things that I still apply in my daily retired life: 1) Never take NO for an answer; 2) If there's a will, there's always a way; 3) Erase the words "if, might, maybe, and but" from your vocabulary; 4) When undertaking a project always do the feasibility homework before taking it on permanently; you may not be able to receive it and see it through to completion; 5) If the funds are not there, then don't undertake the project; 6) Always apply initiative, dedication, motivation, professionalism, pride, discipline, and confidence in undertaking any project...without these, there is an extremely high possibility that the project will not work, will not be completed, and the goals and objectives for the project will be lost.

Since leaving the government, I have worked in supervisory and managerial positions with several civilian companies. I excelled wherever I worked, however, I was always confronted or viewed with a wary eye, that is, people never wanted to work with me because I instilled most or all of the aforementioned into my daily work routine. It always seemed to me that everyone, from the top down, were "in it" so to speak only for themselves, and in general, the "team spirit" concept, or working together toward a common goal attitude was minimal or non-existent. It appears to me that many in the civilian sector are either light hearted, or feeble in their confidence and aggressiveness towards undertaking a project, doing the pre-analyzation and feasibility and sustainability of the project based on the available resources, and also doing the homework (completely) regarding ensuring that all aspects and points relative to seeing the project through to completion (attaining goals and objectives), are checked and finalized before taking the project on.

I was not elected to a position within city or county government. That being said, it is the responsibility and duty of those elected officials, and others appointed by them, to do their jobs on behalf of and for the public at large; and in my opinion, THIS IS NOT BEING DONE IN MY BELOVED JAX. Please don't beat me up, I love Jacksonville dearly; but it hurts me to go to Orlando, Miami, Tampa, or even Sarasota and see cranes swinging around and towers going up, and then go to Jax and there is nothing, absolutely almost nothing, going on.

Love you guys; don't beat me up too bad (LOL).

Heights

[tpot]

Take note Jacksonville, this is how you restore a historic downtown property........

http://miami.curbed.com/2016/3/24/11299216/langford-hotel-downtown-miami

[FlaBoy]

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=547277

Southeast Development Group is proposing construction of a 551-space parking structure at 28 W. Adams St., the current location of a surface parking lot owned and operated by the city.

Southeast would use about half of the spaces for tenants at the former Barnett Bank building and would offer the rest for long- and short-term parking.

Southeast retained Atlanta-based management company Parksimple to survey the level of interest in the garage project.

According to Parksimple Vice President of Sales Robert Day, based on the response to the survey, there is "a lot of interest" in having more parking options for Downtown tenants.

What does this mean for the Trio project as a whole?

[Tacachale]

^That they're really good at staying in the news.

[Steve]

Amen. While I live this proposal, I've not seen this much publicity with no results in a VERY long time.

[BoldCityRealist]

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=547277

Southeast Development Group is proposing construction of a 551-space parking structure at 28 W. Adams St., the current location of a surface parking lot owned and operated by the city.

Southeast would use about half of the spaces for tenants at the former Barnett Bank building and would offer the rest for long- and short-term parking.

Southeast retained Atlanta-based management company Parksimple to survey the level of interest in the garage project.

According to Parksimple Vice President of Sales Robert Day, based on the response to the survey, there is "a lot of interest" in having more parking options for Downtown tenants.

What does this mean for the Trio project as a whole?

Downtown could always use another parking garage.

[Kerry]

Could they please require street-level retail and not fake windows for 'future' development.

[Houseboat Mike]

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=547277

Southeast Development Group is proposing construction of a 551-space parking structure at 28 W. Adams St., the current location of a surface parking lot owned and operated by the city.

Southeast would use about half of the spaces for tenants at the former Barnett Bank building and would offer the rest for long- and short-term parking.

Southeast retained Atlanta-based management company Parksimple to survey the level of interest in the garage project.

According to Parksimple Vice President of Sales Robert Day, based on the response to the survey, there is "a lot of interest" in having more parking options for Downtown tenants.

What does this mean for the Trio project as a whole?

Downtown could always use another parking garage.

Not sure if this is meant as sarcasm or not, but I work at 301 Bay St, and since Citizens moved in....yeah, we could use another parking garage.

We could also use some more decent choices of food on the west side of Main St.

[jph]

Not sure if this is meant as sarcasm or not, but I work at 301 Bay St, and since Citizens moved in....yeah, we could use another parking garage.

We could also use some more decent choices of food on the west side of Main St.

301 Bay St is directly across the street from a skyway station and next to or catty-corner to, as I count it, 5 parking lots/garages.