I saw a person sitting on their balcony at Broadstone! And it looked like a "real person" like somebody in a Chevy ad.
Vibrancy, baby. Vibrancy.
Now, can anything happen with those horrible little buildings fronting the river? Nothing against IHOP....but please. Please!
I would imagine The Landmark hotel and surrounding properties are bound to be redeveloped later or sooner. The trick is getting enough interesting in the area. Maybe the redevelopment at the old JEA generating site, if that gets rolling, will create the impetus for a developer to take on something like that? The properties a lil' goofy with the Skyway cutting through it and the River.
As for the reviews on Google, be careful. A lot of those are generated by click farms. Just look at the accounts, just a review or 2 on them. They used to crank them out on the same account. Now they've had to spread them out over a butt ton of fake accounts. And look at the wording. They have a tendency to read like a marketing brochure, checking off all the boxes.
The JMARTUS account is likely a product of one of these click farms. Check out the reviews. The pizza one had " It wasn’t heavy and it’s all because of the ingredients they use which are made fresh daily. We also enjoyed desserts and cappuccinos."
Uh huh, ya, cuz when I review a resteraunt the first thing on my mind is to not comment that the food tasted like it was fresh ingredients but to point ou that it was made fresh daily. There's a few folks out there that go into review mode and write crap in that framing. BUt most of it is some 30 year old in Sri Lanka getting paid peanuts to crank them out, both fake good ones and fake ones to attack competitors.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/07/12/five-star-factory-amazon-google-tripadvisor-plagued-fake-reviews/
