Q: If the city allocated the $200+ million from the failed Lot J deal to another project or idea for our city, what would you like to see that money go toward?

Hannah Carr
Hannah Carr

The lower income areas and their housing. I’d like it to help their roads be better and maybe put in a park. I’d like to see the money spent on places where it is really needed and not where it doesn’t need to go. There is a lot of work that needs to be done in the Moncrief area. I’d like to see them spend the money on infrastructure in the lower income areas. They keep putting money into places where money is already, and I understand that because they are wanting to keep the economy going, but they need to put money in the places that aren’t as successful, monetarily speaking.

— Hannah Carr


Ervin Alston
Ervin Alston

I would like to see more action taken with the football team because if he (Shad Khan) has the funds to make more facilities, I would like to see a better team. We need more talent in that area. We have a big city, and there is a lot about our city that I love, but for some reason the football team is not getting any energy. I’d also like to see better roads. It just seems like I-10 is never really done. Also, West Beaver Street needs attention. I think they should help the homeless, too.

— Ervin Alston


Sabrina Zilberman
Sabrina Zilberman

I would love to see more environmental action go on within the city. San Marco is a beautiful place, and the people of San Marco take amazing care of it, but definitely over in St. Johns – it is not trashed necessarily – but I would like to see more parks and more places that are kid friendly since it is COVID right now. We need more places that are nice for families and stuff like that. They need to invest in more park space.

— Sabrina Zilberman


Lexi Harper
Lexi Harper

I’d rather put it in schools. Wouldn’t you rather have textbooks than more sports stadiums? I know when I was in high school, we had half a set of textbooks for the entire class, and you couldn’t take them home. You had to copy down an entire page just to do your homework. Also, we have an entire population of homeless that no one is helping. There is a homeless shelter downtown that feeds people, and yet they have to stay on the sidewalk.

— Lexi Harper


Erik Foutz
Erik Foutz

I didn’t realize the Lot J project had fallen through. They could use that money downtown to bring in restaurants and bars and housing, kind of like they did in Springfield where they grant to investors to go into the downtown area and make it more vibrant. They could spend money on the waterfront and make the waterfront more usable. Jacksonville could be a boating community. We have this beautiful river, and we have parking lots on the river and there is nothing going on near the river. We should make the downtown more vibrant and fortify the river access and that would draw people here from all over the place.

—Erik Foutz


Donald Blanchard
Donald Blanchard

Definitely improving the education system in general going towards more allocation of funds for educational projects for kids, whether it be more park opportunities or more access to park planning. We need newer structures within a lot of the parks. They’ve done a good job recently adding new creative ideas for kids, but we could always do better. $200 million would go a very long way. Of course, it all wouldn’t be allocated for that, but putting more focus on the youth should be a priority, I think.

— Donald Blanchard


Aggy DiTullio
Aggy DiTullio

Schools and programs for kids because I believe that if kids are given the opportunity to better themselves at an early age that would prevent the over-crowdedness of prisons that we are faced with. A lot of kids that come from low-income neighborhoods don’t have the ability to go to good schools, so I think if the city invested in programs for them it would be beneficial for everybody.

— Aggy DiTullio


Rachel Covart
Rachel Covart

They should put in an aquarium where The Landing used to be, but they should also try to help the homeless people downtown, especially with COVID. I know a lot of people are struggling financially.

— Rachel Covart

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