About the New Shelter
The new shelter comes as a result of the City of Jacksonville’s commitment to providing humane treatment of animals and effectively managing its growing population.
The new facility offers a number of improvements over the previous shelter. These include a highly visible and accessible location, state of the art medical facility, a separate animal treatment area, additional surgical recovery space, and a designated open space for adoptable animals.
Building elements, including the roof, the use of natural light and automatic lights along with native plants used in the landscaping, were designed to maximize the use of energy and natural resources. The project’s contractor, Auld & White, is currently pursuing a LEED Gold Certification for the building’s energy efficient design.
The building’s "green" features also help promote good health for the animals in the shelter. For example, high efficiency mechanical systems and equipment help balance the facilities extensive use of fresh air. When coupled with the building’s humidity control, these systems help to encourage good overall health of the animals in the shelter.
Animal Care and Protective Services is located at 2020 Forest Street - 32204.
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Hurricane
August 11, 2009, 06:40:05 AMMy hat is off to the architect for actually making a shelter a cool design for a project that would typically be plain Jane. With all of the daylighting coming into the lobby area, most of those lights in the lobby should automatically be turned off with daylight harvesting controls to be more energy efficient per LEED standards. But, great job!
jbroadglide
August 11, 2009, 08:34:23 AMI was there for the Grand Opening and it is a beautiful facility. Open, airy, well lit and very inviting to human visitors. Not like the old place. I saw many people adopting animals that day and I hope the trend continues. All of my dogs have come from shelters including two from the Jax Shelter.
Deuce
August 11, 2009, 08:51:58 AMScore one for JAX. Huge improvement over the old place and fantastic that they are pursing GOLD LEED. I'm not too familiar with the area where it's located, but I would surmise that this is an asset for that neighborhood as well.
archiphreak
August 11, 2009, 08:58:52 AMOh it's an asset alright. It's in a blighted section of Old Riverside north of I-10. Let's hope this spurs some development in the area. I've driven by it a couple times and it is AMAZING. Truly a masterpiece in Jacksonville. Bravo.
GideonGlib
August 11, 2009, 09:13:45 AMWow, I have been wondering for months what they were building on the site as I drove by on 95, I could not be happier that it was this project.
b real
August 11, 2009, 09:17:27 AMI drive pass the building every morning and have watched it transform from a dirt site to a beautiful piece of architecture. This is an awesome example of green design and to get LEED GOLD is a great accomplishment. The graphics are amazing! YEA for the animals!
stug
August 11, 2009, 09:32:32 AMVery, very impressive.
Captain Zissou
August 11, 2009, 09:38:16 AMI drove past it a few weeks ago and was extremely impressed. I couldn't see any sinage at the time, so I circled around it a few times to try and figure it out. If you had told me it was a dog shelter, i probably would have laughed. This building is great.
JeffreyS
August 11, 2009, 09:56:48 AMI will have to do a drive by.
TPC
August 11, 2009, 10:13:49 AMWow, that building looks really cool. I'll have to check it out. Is this a no kill shelter?
jbroadglide
August 11, 2009, 10:48:44 AMNo unfortunately its not a no kill shelter. But I talked to a frien over there today and they adopted out over 60 animals just this past saturday alone. Please don't just drive by there. Stop. Go in. Its free..and its air conditioned. You might just find a new best friend.
JaxNative68
August 11, 2009, 01:55:14 PMwho was the architect on this one?
jbroadglide
August 11, 2009, 02:04:03 PMNot sure who the architect is but the project’s contractor was Auld & White.
nvrenuf
August 11, 2009, 02:35:11 PMNice article. Really nice facility, MUCH better than the dead-man walking feel of the previous facility. And thanks for putting a Springfield Animal Care & Rescue dog (www.sacarc.org) on the "cover". That is Gus, a 5 1/2 month old hound mix in SACARC's care. Animal Care and Protective Services was kind enough to share their big day with several animal rescues from throughout the city. Gus did not find his forever home on Saturday but 1 dog and 1 cat from SACARC did. A great day for lots of animals!
Green Builder
August 11, 2009, 04:40:40 PMThe architect was Ebert Norman Brady Architects
I-10east
August 11, 2009, 05:10:17 PMThere's alot of new things on Forest St; the new animal shelter, the recent Fire Station no.5, and the recent Forest St/Myrtle Av I-95 Northbound ramp. The animal shelter looks nice. It's gonna be interesting to see what they're gonna do with the land were the abandoned school, and park sits on Forest St.
jbroadglide
August 17, 2009, 03:12:15 PMAllow me, if you will, to point you all here.
http://www.coj.net/Departments/Environmental+and+Compliance/Animal+Care+and+Control/default.htm
Its a 4:30 video of the new shelter Grand Opening. It has great narration, if I do say so myself.
Jason
August 18, 2009, 10:01:17 AMGreat stuff JD. Thanks for sharing the video.
thekillingwax
August 18, 2009, 07:19:31 PMIt's a great place. They also pump something into the air because I went in just wanting to look around and somehow I walked out with three cats.
JaxNative68
August 19, 2009, 10:52:44 AMthree cats? very ambitious.
jbroadglide
August 19, 2009, 03:14:45 PMThanks Jason. The video is now linked from jacksonville.com. its had close to 500 hits so far..
ErikSetzer
August 28, 2009, 09:53:32 PMLooks brilliant! That's a good thing, too. People are more likely to stop into a shelter that looks really nice, and adopt one of those animals. Kind of sad that aesthetics make a person more likely to do what's right, but I'll cheer the end result and leave the lamentation of mankind's priorities for later.
Lunican
November 05, 2009, 08:57:20 AMJul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Avg Avg %
DOGS
Intake 920 811 842 858
Outcome 907 795 872 858
"EUTHANIZED" 544 469 560 524 61%
Adopted Out by JACPS 147 143 113 134 16%
Transfer to Rescue/JHS 150 132 137 140 16%
Return to Owner 58 43 51 51 6%
CATS
Intake 1176 1219 1105 1167
Outcome 1151 1254 1180 1195
"EUTHANIZED" 597 745 573 638 53%
Transfer to FCNMHP 428 365 468 420 35%
Adopted Out by JACPS 80 85 43 69 6%
Transfer to Rescue/JHS 28 27 76 44 4%
Return to Owner 10 13 13 12 1%
TOTAL KILLED 1141 1214 1133 1163
PERCENTAGE KILLED 55% 59% 55% 57%
JHS = Jacksonville Humane Society
FCNMHP = First Coast No More Homeless Pets
fsu813
November 05, 2009, 11:16:15 AMjust adopted a dog from there yesterday.
Dog Walker
November 05, 2009, 02:37:53 PMYou always get karma points for having a dog, but you get DOUBLE karma points for adopting a shelter dog. Good for you!
fsu813
November 05, 2009, 02:42:57 PMthey had lots of adorbale cats with "my time is up! please save me!" signs on thier cages.
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