LAST UPDATED: November 27, 2019
Sometimes seeing the current state of downtown Jacksonville can cause frustration for residents hoping for more activity.
It can be easy to lose perspective on exactly how much money is being poured into creating a more lively, modern downtown area over the next decade.
There are well over a billion dollars worth of active and proposed development projects going on within downtown Jacksonville. Some projects, of course, are further along than others – and some, like Shad Khan’s grand plans for the Shipyards property, still feel like a distant reality at best. But many are already under construction and will be ready as soon as the end of the year.
To help keep track of everything that’s going on downtown, we’ve compiled a list of all the active and proposed development projects that we could gather from our records – divided up by district. We’ll keep updating the list as we locate more projects in our records, or in city records, as well as adding new projects as they’re announced.
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UNDER CONSTRUCTION
- Jacksonville Regional Transportation Center
(1111 W. Forsyth St.)
- A new JTA transit hub that will centralize most of the organization’s operations
- Lofts at Jefferson Station (799 Water St.)
- 133-unit affordable housing complex from Vestcor
PROPOSED
- Emerald Trail “Model Project”
- A 1.3-mile mixed-use path to run from Prime Osborn Convention Center to the S-Line Rail Trail in Springfield as phase one for the larger Emerald Trail project
- Vestcor townhomes (multiple blocks along Adams,
Johnson, Lee, Forsyth streets)
- Vestcor plans to develop 88 townhome units on long-vacant lots surrounding Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park – and will contribute $100,000 to the park’s funds