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Plans for the Downtown Shipyards include an office tower, marina building, Four Season Hotel and Residences and a renovated marina.
Debate on Jaguars owner Shad Khan’s latest plan could begin in late June. BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
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efore Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan’s Downtown development team brings his $441 million Shipyards and football performance center development to City Council this year, two key lawmakers say they are optimistic about the deal. Council members Randy DeFoor and Matt Carlucci voted against a $245.3 million public incentives package in Janu-
ary for Khan’s proposed Lot J mixed-use entertainment complex, but both said they are encouraged that the Shipyards deal appears more transparent and will be vetted by the Downtown Investment Authority and Downtown Development Review Board. “You have to be transparent if you go through the DIA process,” Carlucci said. “I’m not saying that the Jaguars didn’t want to be transparent before but somehow they got caught up in letting the mayor’s office do the negotiations. No offense to the mayor’s office, but the DIA
is the sole agency to negotiate these types of things.” Khan, Jaguars President Mark Lamping and the team’s affiliated real estate development entity Iguana Investments Florida LLC announced plans June 3 to build a Four Seasons Hotel and Residences, office building, marina and an orthopedic sports medicine campus in partnership with Baptist Health at the city-owned riverfront property. At the event, Khan added a city-owned SEE SHIPYARDS, PAGE 4
BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
The Jacksonville City Council approved two private mixed-use, multifamily developments June 8 on the Downtown Southbank and near the Arlington Expressway. Council unanimously supported a redevelopment agreement and $18.27 million in taxpayer incentives for Miami-based Related Group’s plan to replace River City Brewing Co. at 835 Museum Circle on the Southbank with a minimum 325-unit, eight-story apartment building and restaurant. The Council also voted 18-0 to rezone 903 University Blvd. in Arlington to Planned Unit Development with conditions for JWB Real Estate Capital LLC to renovate and redevelop the former Town & Country Shopping Center into College Park. The $99.16 million RD River City apartments will include a free-standing, nearly 5,000-square-foot restaurant fronting St. Johns River Park and Friendship Fountain and a 500-space parking garage. The developer plans to buy Maritime Concepts’ interest in the city-owned property and buy out the remaining 77 years of the company’s long-term land lease. Maritime owns the existing restaurant. In Arlington, JWB plans to build two, three-story apartment buildings at College Park with a total 90 units. The developer also plans to redesign and update the shopping center, which was built in 1953, and add a food court park.
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