Southside Construction Update - Fall 2017

[Metro Jacksonville]

Southside Construction Update - Fall 2017



A brief look at the status of various projects under construction in and around Jacksonville's Edge City, the Southside, during fall 2017.

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[ProjectMaximus]

O M G

Lofts of Deerwood Lake is open!!

[KenFSU]

We talked for years on this forum about whether IKEA would ever enter the Jacksonville market, with the overwhelming consensus being that we were at least a decade away from fitting the retailer's typical requirements.

Kinda blows my mind to see construction complete.

It's just one retailer, but can't but think that Jacksonville has really made some huge strides here in the last five years.

[I-10east]

Cities like Nashville, San Antonio, Raleigh, New Orleans, and Oklahoma City are all supposedly so much better than Jacksonville, but they all don't have any IKEAs LOL. Just saying. Most midsized US cities are more than not much of the same IMO, with each having a few differing quirks here and there.

[thelakelander]

IKEA is basically already operating in the country's largest metros. Btw, Raleigh, Nashville and San Antonio are also gwtting new IKEA stores.  Seems like Jax and some of the other regional metros are a part of their most recent expansion plan.

[jaxnyc79]

IKEA is basically already operating in the country's largest metros. Btw, Raleigh, Nashville and San Antonio are also gwtting new IKEA stores.  Seems like Jax and some of the other regional metros are a part of their most recent expansion plan.

Feels Over-rated...Just another big-box retailer in the 'burbs, folks. 

[jcjohnpaint]

But we got it first

[Jim]

There is going to be some new construction at the southeast corner of Baymeadows Road East and R.G.E. Skinner Blvd.  This is across the street from 18. Bay95 Shopping Center.

"Storage Facility, Dunkin Donuts, Culver's Restaurant, Firestone Auto Care and a Fast Food place yet unnamed."

[remc86007]

Parking lots, storage, Dunkin, fast food, a tire place, and more fast food...now that's some inspired development. I'm sure it will look lovely in 20 years.

[TimmyB]

There is going to be some new construction at the southeast corner of Baymeadows Road East and R.G.E. Skinner Blvd.  This is across the street from 18. Bay95 Shopping Center.

"Storage Facility, Dunkin Donuts, Culver's Restaurant, Firestone Auto Care and a Fast Food place yet unnamed."

Culver's is a decent fast casual (just a notch above fast food, anyway) hamburger joint from up north.  Wisconsin based.  Good place to eat, if you want something a hair better than the usual fast-food burger joints.

[jaxnyc79]

There is going to be some new construction at the southeast corner of Baymeadows Road East and R.G.E. Skinner Blvd.  This is across the street from 18. Bay95 Shopping Center.

"Storage Facility, Dunkin Donuts, Culver's Restaurant, Firestone Auto Care and a Fast Food place yet unnamed."

Why does it seem as though Jacksonville parking lots are far bigger and more prominent than what I see in many other cities of comparable size?  Is the zoning code forcing this?  Also, are landscaping requirements much more meager than other cities in Florida? 

[thelakelander]

It's no different. I work in Central Florida. Outside of a few isolated spots, it's all surface parking connected by roads that operate like congested parking lots down here.

[Jim]

There is going to be some new construction at the southeast corner of Baymeadows Road East and R.G.E. Skinner Blvd.  This is across the street from 18. Bay95 Shopping Center.

"Storage Facility, Dunkin Donuts, Culver's Restaurant, Firestone Auto Care and a Fast Food place yet unnamed."

Why does it seem as though Jacksonville parking lots are far bigger and more prominent than what I see in many other cities of comparable size?  Is the zoning code forcing this?  Also, are landscaping requirements much more meager than other cities in Florida? 

This project is 12 miles from the city core.  How many cities of the size of Jax (or bigger) really hold down parking lot size?  I just used the area tool in Google Earth and no city in the US fully tightens up suburban sprawl development parking this far out completely.  Not even in New York or Los Angeles is it fully contained.

[Jim]

FYI: using that Google Earth tool, Berlin, Paris, Rome, etc...all fit inside that 12 miles radius for the most part.   Rome could fit inside a 7 mile radius.  12 miles away from a city center is pretty far for most cities aside from Sao Paulo, Tokyo, London and other mega-cities.

[jaxnyc79]

FYI: using that Google Earth tool, Berlin, Paris, Rome, etc...all fit inside that 12 miles radius for the most part.   Rome could fit inside a 7 mile radius.  12 miles away from a city center is pretty far for most cities aside from Sao Paulo, Tokyo, London and other mega-cities.

Where is Jax's core?  Tapestry Park?