Baymeadows golf course development

[Kiva]

100-room hotel, and 35,000 sq ft of retail will be developed at the old Baymeadows golf club site of the 13th hole.  This has been vacant land for over 10 years. Full article: http://www.jacksonville.com/news/20180502/development-teed-up-again-for-former-baymeadows-golf-course

[jaxnyc79]

Described as village-style, borrowing from some of the design principles of Tapestry Park.  All in all, good news for the Baymeadows area, and much more interesting than the generic strips with frontal parking lots that cover too much of Jax.

[thelakelander]

It may be described as village-style but the site plan looks pretty generic to me:

[Charles Hunter]

What happens to the retention pond that is where this development is shown?
I guess they didn't figure out how to align Baymeadows Circle West with Western Way.  I recall that was part of the earlier discussions on this project.

[thelakelander]

From the Jax Daily Record article, it appears they're going to add another signal:

[Charles Hunter]

Shame they couldn't relocate the bank onto the existing Baymeadows Cir. W., and reroute the street.  But, I guess building a new bank building is expensive.

[Elwood]

That retention pond has been filled in for awhile now.

[marcuscnelson]

Isn't this right next to where Jersey College and Bahri Dental are? Just south of it?

[jaxnyc79]

It may be described as village-style but the site plan looks pretty generic to me:

In plenty of cities, I see parking shifted to the rear all the time and buildings abutting the sidewalk for true pedestrian-orientation.  Why does that not seem to work in Jax?

[thelakelander]

Jax's zoning and land use is Euclidean (or single-use) and heavily tilted to the automobile for the most part. For a developer, it's easier to put parking lots in front of the building and not attempt to fool around by forcing mixed-use development into it. In most areas, doing something like Tapestry Park takes a lot of time and more money to jump through Jacksonville's hoops to make it happen. Until public policy changes to dramatically impact the typical site design of projects throughout the city, don't expect anything to change on a large scale. These site layouts are really less about the market and more about what's the easiest way to get them built and the ROI flowing.

[thelakelander]

Isn't this right next to where Jersey College and Bahri Dental are? Just south of it?

Yes.

[thelakelander]

Shame they couldn't relocate the bank onto the existing Baymeadows Cir. W., and reroute the street.  But, I guess building a new bank building is expensive.

Until you read something insane like this! Talk about lighting money on fire!

Get in your final rounds of Pirate's Cove mini-golf and Gooding's grocery shopping while you still can, because the Crossroads of Lake Buena Vista shopping center outside Walt Disney World will close within 18 months.

Plans for the closing of Crossroads of Lake Buena Vista to make way for an expansion of Interstate 4 have been public since 2016, but Growthspotter is reporting that negotiations with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) have recently accelerated, and tenants at the complex are being notified that they must exit within 18 months so that construction can begin in 2020.

The Crossroads of Lake Buena Vista shopping center is located across from the entrance to Walt Disney World's Disney Springs hotel plaza, and has been appraised at $145 million.

Following the Crossroads of Lake Buena Vista closing, FDOT plans to turn much of the land into retention ponds so that the busy S.R. 535 interchange can be rebuilt as part of the I-4 Beyond the Ultimate project.

Full article: http://attractionsmagazine.com/crossroads-of-lake-buena-vista-shopping-center-closing-within-18-months/

[Charles Hunter]

That retention pond has been filled in for awhile now.

That's what I get for just using the photo shown, as I don't get down that way.  Looking at Google Earth's time-line feature, looks like the pond was filled during 2014.

Just what Baymeadows Road needs, another traffic signal.

[Steve]

That retention pond has been filled in for awhile now.

That's what I get for just using the photo shown, as I don't get down that way.  Looking at Google Earth's time-line feature, looks like the pond was filled during 2014.

Just what Baymeadows Road needs, another traffic signal.

It's not an additional signal. They are moving the one at Western Way to the site. Western Way will no longer have a signal (which did seem odd to me)

[thelakelander]

Western Way will still have a signal.