Brooklyn’s Home2 Suites Nearing Final Phases of Construction
Interior construction has begun on the Home2 Suites hotel coming to Downtown’s Brooklyn neighborhood. Located at 600 Park Street, the new hotel will feature six stories, 100 guest rooms and an associated surface parking lot. It will be 10,720 square feet with an on-site, street-level restaurant facing Rosselle Street. This is a joint project between […]
New downtown advocacy group formed
Some of Jacksonville’s major developers are teaming up to advocate for bringing more development to downtown. Build Up Jacksonville has been organizing for a couple of months as it prepares for an official launch later this month. Its initial funding is coming from JAX Chamber and developers Iguana Investments, Corner Lot Development, and JWB Real […]
DDRB Approves Corner Lot – JTA Plan
The Downtown Development Review Board has given its approval to a new 340-unit multi-family apartment complex on the Southbank. The project called Artea is being developed by Corner Lot Development on land owned by JTA, which hopes it will be the first of several transportation hub developments. The complex will be on 3.87 acres of […]
Planning Commission green lights Park Place at San Marco
In January South Jacksonville Presbyterian Church moved one step closer to receiving approval to have its nearly three-acre San Marco Square property rezoned so that a developer can purchase and build a multi-family apartment complex and parking garage on the site. After receiving approval from the Jacksonville Planning Department to transform its zoning into a […]
Developer works on architectural changes amidst opposition to church development
Opposition to the effort by church elders to rezone property owned by South Jacksonville Presbyterian Church into a Planned Unit Development (PUD) is heating up as leaders of the neighborhood group Right Size San Marco aim to work with Doug Skiles, project engineer for the development team, the San Marco Preservation Society (SMPS) and independent […]
