Suburban Jacksonville: Deerwood Center

[copperfiend]

Lake - Fantastic, now we have found what Downtown is missing, a GIANT LAKE with 1-3 foot long fish dominated by sidewalks all around it. If we only had a lake downtown, oh yeah, the people would come, they most certainly would come.

Don't forget the nutria.

[thelakelander]

Lake - Fantastic, now we have found what Downtown is missing, a GIANT LAKE with 1-3 foot long fish dominated by sidewalks all around it. If we only had a lake downtown, oh yeah, the people would come, they most certainly would come.

LOL.  Keep quiet.  Someone might actually try to pick that up and run with it.

[vicupstate]

Lake - Fantastic, now we have found what Downtown is missing, a GIANT LAKE with 1-3 foot long fish dominated by sidewalks all around it. If we only had a lake downtown, oh yeah, the people would come, they most certainly would come.

LOL.  Keep quiet.  Someone might actually try to pick that up and run with it.

Maybe Hemming Plaza can be flooded.  That ought to keep the homeless out.  You can't swim and play chess/checkers at the same time.  And even if they did swim in Hemming Pla.. err Pool, they would at least smell better after getting out of the water.

FBC could do baptisms there too. 

To publicize the new and improved Hemming Pool, the mayor could ski on it, just like Tommy Hazouri (or was it Jake Godbold) skied on the St. Johns to prove it wasn't polluted any more.     

I think the idea has merit.

Stephen and Ron Chamblin should take it to the Hemming Plaza committee.     

[danem]

Yes if only downtown had some large body of water next to it that people would enjoy looking at and/or using. 

On the subject at hand, isn't Deerwood Center largely unoccupied now? I looked around about a year ago, and saw so many empty spaces and "for lease" signs.

[mtraininjax]

Maybe Hemming Plaza can be flooded.  That ought to keep the homeless out.  You can't swim and play chess/checkers at the same time.  And even if they did swim in Hemming Pla.. err Pool, they would at least smell better after getting out of the water. FBC could do baptisms there too.  To publicize the new and improved Hemming Pool, the mayor could ski on it, just like Tommy Hazouri (or was it Jake Godbold) skied on the St. Johns to prove it wasn't polluted any more.  I think the idea has merit. Stephen and Ron Chamblin should take it to the Hemming Plaza committee.     

+1

Actually it was Hans Tanzler who skied on the river.

Tanzler's greatest contribution to downtown was healing a sick and neglected St. John's River. In 1968, industrial and agricultural pollution, toxic chemicals and 15 million gallons per day of untreated sewage flowed from 77 untreated outfalls into the river and its Duval County tributaries. The city increased sewer taxes, replaced outdated sewer lines and closed ineffective sewage treatment plants. The mayor celebrated the closing of the last of the untreated outfalls in June 1977 by skiing on the river with performers from Cypress Gardens.

[copperfiend]

Lake - Fantastic, now we have found what Downtown is missing, a GIANT LAKE with 1-3 foot long fish dominated by sidewalks all around it. If we only had a lake downtown, oh yeah, the people would come, they most certainly would come.

LOL.  Keep quiet.  Someone might actually try to pick that up and run with it.

Maybe Hemming Plaza can be flooded.  That ought to keep the homeless out.  You can't swim and play chess/checkers at the same time.  And even if they did swim in Hemming Pla.. err Pool, they would at least smell better after getting out of the water.

FBC could do baptisms there too. 

To publicize the new and improved Hemming Pool, the mayor could ski on it, just like Tommy Hazouri (or was it Jake Godbold) skied on the St. Johns to prove it wasn't polluted any more.     

I think the idea has merit.

Stephen and Ron Chamblin should take it to the Hemming Plaza committee.     

Build a Bass Pro Shop on that lake and you might have yourself a deal.

[finehoe]

Tanzler's greatest contribution to downtown was healing a sick and neglected St. John's River. In 1968, industrial and agricultural pollution, toxic chemicals and 15 million gallons per day of untreated sewage flowed from 77 untreated outfalls into the river and its Duval County tributaries. The city increased sewer taxes, replaced outdated sewer lines and closed ineffective sewage treatment plants. The mayor celebrated the closing of the last of the untreated outfalls in June 1977 by skiing on the river with performers from Cypress Gardens.

How much was driven by Mayor Tanzler and how much by the Clean Water Act?  Congress created a major public works financing program for municipal sewage treatment in the 1972 CWA. A system of grants for construction of municipal sewage treatment plants was authorized and funded in Title II. In the initial program the federal portion of each grant was up to 75 percent of a facility's capital cost, with the remainder financed by the state.

[lewyn]

I worked there for 4 years and even took the occasional bus.  A pretty dreadful place.  The fact that, as one of you wrote, it is a "typical suburban office park" just shows how dreadful the competition is.