The South's 1st Target Express to open in Gainesville

[FlaBoy]

This conversation has gone way off base. 

[Captain Zissou]

Gainesville is killing it.

True that.  The density between campus and downtown has really escalated in the past couple years.  This particular development was a long time coming and will be a real asset to the campus.  The scale is larger than any project in urban Jax (that has actually broken ground) in a while.  it doesn't look like the Aloft hotel will be open before the end of football season, but I cant wait to stay there and grab some bento before a game.

[Tacachale]

It's depressing that Gainesville, a small college city whose downtown was effectively dead just a decade ago, has seen more progress and development than Jacksonville.

[thelakelander]

It's simple. Gainesville has been more progressive in encouraging an urban environment. I'm sure having UF there helps pull political leadership in a direction that Jax has been slow to embrace. Heck, I remember as far back as the mid-1990s, Gainesville being pretty progressive in installing bike infrastructure on its streets. Two decades later, we're finally starting to put money behind the idea of road diets, getting rid of one-way streets and making streets better for pedestrians and cyclist. In another 10 years, maybe we can see something the scale of the Standard take place in urban Jax....

[Downtown Osprey]

It's simple. Gainesville has been more progressive in encouraging an urban environment. I'm sure having UF there helps pull political leadership in a direction that Jax has been slow to embrace. Heck, I remember as far back as the mid-1990s, Gainesville being pretty progressive in installing bike infrastructure on its streets. Two decades later, we're finally starting to put money behind the idea of road diets, getting rid of one-way streets and making streets better for pedestrians and cyclist. In another 10 years, maybe we can see something the scale of the Standard take place in urban Jax....

*sigh* maybe....just maybe. Probably not 

[FlaBoy]

It's simple. Gainesville has been more progressive in encouraging an urban environment. I'm sure having UF there helps pull political leadership in a direction that Jax has been slow to embrace. Heck, I remember as far back as the mid-1990s, Gainesville being pretty progressive in installing bike infrastructure on its streets. Two decades later, we're finally starting to put money behind the idea of road diets, getting rid of one-way streets and making streets better for pedestrians and cyclist. In another 10 years, maybe we can see something the scale of the Standard take place in urban Jax....

This is the largest but not the only large apartment projects with mixed use rising in Gainesville. An urban Publix is going in across the street with more apartments around it on the street. Down University and 2nd there are apartments rising left and right. It is crazy.

[Captain Zissou]

http://www.gainesville.com/news/20160127/publix-gets-ok-to-build-its-small-near-campus-grocery

"This is a tremendous redevelopment project," he said. "This will put groceries, dining, staple goods within walking distance of thousands of people that today have to drive either up 13th Street to a grocer, over to South Main to Winn-Dixie, to North Main north of the Duck Pond, or out to 34th Street to buy their groceries. This is going to be an urban, walkable grocery store at what I consider ground zero of real estate in Gainesville."

Construction of The Standard across the street has begun and is expected to have 1,100 bedrooms for people who can walk across the street and won't have to get in their cars.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Lake, please change the name of this thread to

"Area Where They Eat Grits and Say Ya'll's 1st Target Express to open in Gainesville"

LOL.  I've read some pretty moronic postings on MJ over the years, but this thread takes the cake!

*Y'all (You all)