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Timkin

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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #135 on: May 09, 2010, 01:36:56 AM »
couldn't tell you . I was never in it. but it seems abandoned..  The Kyle Funeral Home is the one I am speaking of.. think its 3 or 4 story Brick.  kind of a nice looking Facade ... probably will follow suit of all the vacated buildings....Vandalism , etc .


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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #136 on: May 16, 2010, 10:18:24 AM »
I was wondering, does anyone have pictures of the Park View Inn when it first opened? I have searched the internet for old pics of it and can't find any. It would be really interesting to see this building in its hay day!

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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #137 on: May 16, 2010, 10:32:15 AM »

This is all I have - not a picture per se, but an actual postcard from it when it was still called the Heart of Jacksonville. Nice when it was brand new.

 
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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #138 on: May 16, 2010, 11:58:16 AM »
Wow.....what a mess it is now.  I have no idea why they changed it to look like it currently does. It was actually attractive in the rendering .

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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #139 on: November 15, 2011, 09:46:28 PM »
My wife, who was my girlfriend at the time and I stayed at the Heart of Jacksonville Hotel back in 1977. We stayed on the floor that the pool was on. I remember walking down the hallway then through a breezeway and out to the pool area. We were only 18 and 16 at the time. Its a shame that is has fallen into such disrepair. So sad as it was so nice back then.

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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #140 on: January 23, 2016, 03:36:31 PM »
Since I made this post nearly 8 years ago, I do know that the gas plant survived the Great Fire of 1901. There's a picture floating around on this site somewhere, showing everything (except it) being in ruins during the fire's aftermath.
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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #141 on: January 25, 2016, 05:34:45 PM »
so reading through the entire thread, at some point in the last 6 years they tore down everything but the parking structure and then...stopped? Last time I drove through there a couple months ago, it looked like it was abandoned...again.

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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #143 on: October 12, 2022, 01:25:01 PM »
https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/article/park-view-inn-garage-site-downtown-sells-for-dollar2-5-million

So now that this eyesore has been sold, any speculations about the new owners or future plans for the property?

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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #144 on: October 12, 2022, 03:00:55 PM »
Was this project considered to be one of the developments proposed or in review in the recent State of Downtown report?
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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #145 on: October 12, 2022, 03:24:52 PM »
I do not trust any business entity called Prestige Worldwide to have any success developing this property.

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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #146 on: October 12, 2022, 03:54:09 PM »
Was this project considered to be one of the developments proposed or in review in the recent State of Downtown report?

It doesn't look like it. No mention in the report or on the development map.
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Re: Inside the Park View Inn
« Reply #147 on: October 12, 2022, 06:36:10 PM »
https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/article/park-view-inn-garage-site-downtown-sells-for-dollar2-5-million

So now that this eyesore has been sold, any speculations about the new owners or future plans for the property?

Based on the Ford plant decision, maybe an oil refinery as long as it offers at least one more new job to the City :).  Anything to "support" downtown.