Projects either DEAD or DYING

[reednavy]

We all know the condo market has slumped significantly in the state, but not as much here in JAX, it just seems like it. Several projects have died or may die. The St. James, highly unlikely to be built, thank goodness, because it was ugly anyways. The one I have questions about is St. John's Point, what happened, it would have been the best project to go up, on par with Shipyards. Anyone know anything? Also, feel free to add dying or dead downtown projects.

[copperfiend]

It's not limited to Jax. Check out Miami.

[Ocklawaha]

Besides a horrible aircraft crash that killed the executives, what ever happened to the oft-promised Super-Tall that Charter Companies was going to build? Wasn't it susposed to be about 90 floors?

Does anyone even remember that or the other rumored tall towers?

Ocklawaha

[DetroitInJAX]

Dead or dying??  Theres no shortage of those in Downtown JAX, while the St. Johns Town Center expansion steams ahead.

[thelakelander]

1. Charter's tower?  Umm their whole company went belly up around the same time.

2. Downtown Progress - Projects dying have little to do with the SJTC and more to do with being too large, wrong concepts and a real estate slowdown.  Where we differ from many other communities is that there's no coordinated vision in getting things done.  Without coordinated planning it will be difficult to create synergy from the grouping of serveral projects within a compact area.  To compare apples to apples, we probably have just as many projects planned as Uptown Charlotte.  However ours happen to be equally spread out over the core with no plan to connect any of them, while Charlotte (despite arounded by surface parking) tend to be in a three block radius of Uptown's main street and the new light rail line.

[Ocklawaha]

Charter went down with that helicopter? crash. I recall that Wall Street and all of the news stations were saying, never again would a major up and coming business put all of their brains in one aircraft, at one time.
Just goes to show, they should have used Rail... Okay, quit laughing. We are talking about really big projects? Does anyone recall if they ever posted images of the Charter Tower? Does anyone else remember any roumored supertalls? They never seem to get past roumor-mill. The latest one was the Biscayne duplicate just let out of the box, what? This spring? Then killed? It was on the books it seemed for about 2 weeks? Really weird! Why did they even bother?

Ocklawaha