Jacksonville is a city that’s always growing – but sometimes it’s easy to lose track of how far we’ve come. To help add some perspective, we’ve compiled a list of 15 things that Jacksonville didn’t have just 15 years ago – but that we do have now!
The Shipyards property along E. Bay St. has long been a problem area for the city.
After a failed project in the 1990s to turn the abandoned shipyard operation buildings into a music venue, a development company bought up the property in 2001 and knocked down everything to build a mixed-use development. It never ended up happening, and by the end of the decade the land was foreclosed on by the city.
But now, after years of trying to figure out what to do with the land, the city and Shad Khan’s development company are working together on plans to completely revamp the area along with Met Park.
There’s still a long road ahead for the project to be realized, but this is the most encouraging turn of events for the property in quite a while.
