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
- Wolfson Children’s Critical Care Tower (Palm
Ave.)
- A new 7-story tower that will serve as the new “front door” for Wolfson and Baptist Health on their shared campus, along with 5 floors of critical care space for infants and children
- Riverplace Boulevard road diet
- A narrowing of the Riverplace Blvd. vehicle right-of-way to accommodate a multi-use path and street parking
PROPOSED
- Chadbourne II LLC mixed-use development (1230 Hendricks Ave.)
- former Florida Baptist Convention property will be developed into around 350 apartment units and around 5,000 sq. ft. of ground-floor retail/restaurant space
- The District (east of Prudential Dr. / Broadcast Pl.)
- Elements of Jacksonville’s plan to add 950 residential units, 147 hotel rooms (AC Hotel by Marriott is signed on for the project), 200,000 sq. ft office space, 134,000 sq. ft. retail, a marina, and a public park on a 30-acre former JEA site
- MOSH expansion (1025 Museum Cir.)
- Museum of Science & History has plans to re-orient their campus toward Friendship Fountain and expand it at a cost of $80 million