The Ruins of Jacksonville: Hogans Creek

[Metro Jacksonville]

The Ruins of Jacksonville: Hogans Creek



A walk along what may be Jacksonville's greatest urban ruin: The Hogans Creek Improvement Project.

Full Article
http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2009-jun-the-ruins-of-jacksonville-hogans-creek

[BridgeTroll]

Sad...

[mtraininjax]

Add McCoy's Creek to that as well. You would think someone could fix the flooding that continues there every time it rains....

[Hurricane]

How did JAX let our downtown and surrounding areas become such an eye sore? 

[5PointsGuy]

What a waste of potential... And all those pipes that were just put in all willy-nilly through the railings...

[hightowerlover]

what a disgrace! 

[JeffreyS]

Jax could have such a wonderful urban core every part is neglected.

[jaxlore]

wow that is sad. that could really be something, i could see people walking, biking, etc up and down the creek. Talk about neglecting property can the city fine itself?

[JeffreyS]

So we close sections of our rail lines in that area to make bike lanes instead of revitalizing Hogans creek that would be an awesome bike trail.

[Karl_Pilkington]

How did JAX let our downtown and surrounding areas become such an eye sore? 

thats how they roll here in Jacksontucky.  its about embracing the blight, keeps em grounded.  when they travel to other cities they can see how its done, but the draw of trash filled streets with boarded up dilapidated buildings brings them home.  most of the powers that be though only visit jacksontucky during the day, when the sun begins to set they high tail it back to their suburban paradise in St. Johns or Clay county where they can rest assured that they've made it and now can only feel bad and really want to help those left behind.

[brainstormer]

I dream of a day when I can hop on the Hogans Creek Trail and run all the way to Metro Park.

I dream of a day when I can safely ride my bike on a bike trail from Springfield to RAM via the Maxwell House and Riverwalk.

I dream of a day when Jacksonville will embrace its history and fill the Hogans Creek Trail with fountains, picnic benches, playgrounds and history lessons/statues of those like Klutho.

I dream of a day when the city stops neglecting it's urban core.

Thank you for the history lesson.  Great article.

[Rocshaboc]

Hello all. This is why Jacksonville gets overlooked as a tourist destination. Why can't we take advantage of this? Pathetic.

[hanjin1]

that's how we roll. man, I can't wait for some new leadership in this town.

[RiversideLoki]

I made a comment on the FB post but I'll repeat it here. This is yet another example of how money is being wasted in the burbs at the expense of the core. Fix this creek! It's a shame what was once such a beautiful resource has fallen into so much disrepair! If you want more than homeless people in the spgfld/downtown core, you need to make it appealing to the citizens! Mayor Payton has lost sight of what so many of us "common folks" learned playing Sim City on the computer so many years ago!

[billy]

You should be able to get on a trail/bike path near Shands,
take it to the Shipyards and head upriver to Memorial Park.