If I’m understanding this correctly, they want to tear down the machine shop building and replace it with a 2 floor retail less parking garage?
But they will name the garage after the machine shop!
And add a "Brooklyn" mural that appears to only picture buildings from Downtown, none from "historic" Brooklyn.
What does it take to mandate linear retail here on the ground floor of parking garages in the urban core? This would cost the City nothing and go much further to promote "Downtown" than all the Four Seasons, that we give hundreds of millions to, will ever do.
Not sure why they are preserving the Liddy name on the garage... unless Liddy's owners will own it and lease it out to the hotel.
FYI, I Google'd Liddy Machine Shop and their Facebook page (
https://www.facebook.com/p/Liddys-Machine-Shop-Inc-100049531185929/) is still up even though they are closed. The posted videos of their most unique services and capabilities are fascinating and losing an old line industrial company like that had to be a major loss for the Jax economy given it appears they were doing high end and specialized technical work for industries throughout the region. I wonder where their customers go today for this.
