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DOWNTOWN/NORTHBANK
Bay Street Streetscape and Reversible Lane Project
325 East Bay Street (Restaurant - No change from last update)
Chicago Pizza at the Jacksonville Landing
Fire Station No. 4 Addition
Duval County Courthouse
SAN MARCO/SOUTHBANK
Taverna (San Marco Square)
Another retail opening in San Marco Square
A pocket park where Lasalle Street meets the river
Wolfson's Children's Hospital Adult Tower (grass reveals no work has taken place in a while)
A block long parking like Baptist Health, at 1200 San Marco Blvd, appears to be going in - San Marco
The renovation of 1032 Hendricks Avenue looks complete
RIVERSIDE/AVONDALE
925 King Street (Park & King)
Gibb's NY Style Subs and Salads (Prado Walk)
3611 St. Johns Avenue (Avondale)
John Gorrie School Conversion (no visible work in the past month)
SPRINGFIELD
Main Street Streetscape
2111 Liberty Street
Fusion Jazz & Wine Bar
Shorty's Seafood at 8th & Pearl
Renovations for a fish market at 1715 North Main Street continues to take shape
original exterior painting scheme
exterior as of September 7, 2009
1610 North Main. The future home of The Oasis (a look before the clean up and renovation takes place)
15 West 6th
Uptown Market
The presence of 3rd & Main has started to spur the redevelopment of a commercial building across the street
Photo Update by Ennis Davis
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Keith-N-Jax
September 10, 2009, 06:28:00 AMHmmm I could use some of those pavers. I wonder if they mind if I get a few.
riverside_mail
September 10, 2009, 07:06:14 AMThere was some interior work being done last week at John Gorrie, but nothing noticeable.
vicupstate
September 10, 2009, 07:35:57 AMWhere in Springfied is Fusion going exactly?
reednavy
September 10, 2009, 08:13:08 AMIf I'm not mistaken, Philosophie in San Marco has been open well over a year. Maybe they relocated?
fsujax
September 10, 2009, 08:32:47 AMGotta love those mast arm poles along Bay St. and to think people will try to complain about a small overhead wire for a streetcar.
thelakelander
September 10, 2009, 08:53:17 AMthe two story brick building on Pearl Street, just north of 8th. Its where Draper Studios used to be located.
thelakelander
September 10, 2009, 08:54:27 AMfsujax, you're right. Well at least we now have an example to show what it will not look like.
Captain Zissou
September 10, 2009, 09:40:27 AMIt's not on a main thoroughfare, but there is a sizable building (6000 sft +) going in on Herschel just east of King Street. It's right across from the RAP headquarters. It will be the future home of an engineering company. Looks like it will fit the neighborhood well.
Can't wait to try Taverna. Why do we still not know what 925 King St is?
DavidWilliams
September 10, 2009, 09:48:08 AMWhat is going in the former Casablanca space or is that still TBD?
fsu813
September 10, 2009, 10:34:11 AMFusion Jazz & Wine Bar -
wow, i didn't know anything like that was in the works. i hope it works out, though i have my doubts in that location. it looks like they are pretty far along. they need to create some buzz........
also,
what is "The Oasis"?
thelakelander
September 10, 2009, 11:14:21 AM^A GLBT community center. Here is a link to a discussion about it: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/forum/index.php/topic,5857.15.html
heights unknown
September 10, 2009, 11:15:17 AMSpringfield sure looks great; it's progressing quite nicely and for the better. Much different than I remember it in the 1980's and early 1990's.
Great seeing those cranes up on the Courthouse site and construction moving the project skyward.
How much longer are they going to be working on Main Street in Springfield? Looks like they've been doing the street construction forever now.
Heights Unknown
Atari007
September 10, 2009, 11:20:59 AM925 King St... that was the old laundry mat, right? When they closed, I heard that it was only supposed to be for a few months tops so that they could do renovations and whatnot. Two years or so later............... i dunno.
Any word on if anything is going to be moving into the 9th and Main building?? Its sad to see that place empty.....
Captain Zissou
September 10, 2009, 11:28:02 AMSeriously? Check thread entitled "9th & Main...etc"
stephendare
September 10, 2009, 11:38:27 AMThe Oasis is a Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender community center put together by Shawn from Three Layers and Brock Fazzini.
lots more info in the gay center fish market thread.
konstantconsumer
September 10, 2009, 12:38:26 PMfyi, 325 Bay St isn't going to be a restaurant. also, it'll be at least a year before anything happens construction-wise. might as well take it off the updates.
Ocklawaha
September 10, 2009, 12:53:28 PMYep, NOTHING on earth more ugly then streetcar wires and poles. This is the brand new streetcar line in Albquerque, NM. As you can see, done right, there is nothing to get excited about.
OCKLAWAHA
thelakelander
September 10, 2009, 08:21:35 PMIt looks like 20 West (Lerner Shops Building) is going to get back started up again.
Plans to renovate a 98-year-old building on Adams Street into a modern multi-use project have been a lot more difficult than The Kimmik Corp. originally anticipated, both structurally and financially, so the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission is proposing to stretch out the disbursement of a grant the company has already received to help keep the project moving.
Since receiving $400,000 from the city’s Historic Preservation Trust Fund Grant payable after the completion of the entire project at 20 W. Adams St., the developer has spent about $3.2 million on some unforeseen and extensive structural improvements that included underpinning columns to ensure stability and rebuilding stairwells and elevator shafts to meet modern fire and safety codes. In the meantime, said Marion Graham, general manager for the developer, a local bank rescinded its financing of the project.
The work is about 50-60 percent complete, and the developer has secured a commitment from a private investor to finish about $1.5 million worth of work on the first and second floors totaling more than 11,500 square feet that will be used for retail and office space, plus the exterior of the building.
full article: http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2009/09/07/daily28.html
Jason
September 11, 2009, 01:26:56 PMI was tooling around downtown yesterday and was suprised to see the courthouse going vertical. Seems like all of LaVilla is consumed by that construction site.
Also, the "passive" pocket park that's taking the place of the closed connector road between Water and Bay is under construction as well.
riverside_mail
September 11, 2009, 06:51:04 PMThe original plans for 925 King St. was to be a wine bar to compliment La Bella Sera. However, the wine bar was opened a few doors down at Walkers(the same owner). I don't know if he plans on moving it once the building is finished or just finding another use for it.
Coolyfett
September 13, 2009, 04:28:12 PMzzzzzzzz
Atari007
September 14, 2009, 08:35:49 AMahha.... found it.
fsu813
September 18, 2009, 05:19:48 PMFYI:
“substantial completion” date of November 2 for work on Main Street
thelakelander
September 18, 2009, 05:26:19 PMThanks, that's a nice update. I'm sure a lot of people will be happy to see Main completed.
jeh1980
October 05, 2009, 12:51:11 PMI'm thinking that the new courthouse may be having a different footprint than the one we might have saw on the diagrams.
Atari007
November 02, 2009, 06:18:04 PM“substantial completion” date of November 2 for work on Main Street
soooo....are they finished?