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Jaguars’ Four Seasons, football performance center designs advance The DDRB granted conceptual approval for the $321 million hotel project and gave final support for the $120 million training facility.
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BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan’s $441 million development ambitions in the Downtown Sports and Entertainment District continue to advance. The Downtown Development Review Board voted unanimously Oct. 14 to grant final approval for the Jaguars proposed $120 million football performance center next to the stadium and conceptual approval for the $321 million Four Seasons-anchored project. Board members praised the architectural designs. “It’s great to see a project of this magnitude come forward and come to fruition,” said J. Brent Allen. “It gives me some comfort that, I think, maybe the Jaguars
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The Downtown Development Review Board granted final design approval Oct. 14 for the Jaguars’ $120 million football performance center northwest of TIAA Bank Field and conceptual approval for the for $321 million Four Seasons hotel development at the Shipyards south of the stadium.
will stay in town,” said Brenna Durden. JAGUARS’ FOOTBALL PERFORMANCE CENTER
The DDRB voted 6-0 to approve the training facility’s final design. Members Christian Harden and Joesph Loretta left the three-hour meeting before the vote. The 127,087-square-foot football performance center comprises an
indoor practice field; two outdoor natural-grass fields with about 2,300 bleacher seats; a team store; and concession facilities. The city would own it and the team would lease it. The city and the Jaguars are splitting the construction cost. The site plan and facility design by the Detroit-based architecture, interior and planning firm Rossetti shows a two-level inte-
rior facility that has locker, meeting, training and weight rooms. The plan has equipment and dining areas for players, as well as coaches and football administration offices. One of the firm’s specialties is sports entertainment facilities design, including work with teams on the Daytona International Speedway and Arthur Ashe Stadium for the U.S. Open
in Queens, New York. The Jaguars added seat walls, a sculpture garden and a terraced retaining wall with landscaping, the report and renderings show. DDRB staff called the addition “a modern, sleek space that is active and welcomes pedestrians.” That is a change from the staff’s critique of the conceptual review SEE JAGUARS, PAGE 2
Southbank apartments move forward despite the ‘cookie-cutter’ design The Downtown Development Review Board gave its preliminary OK for the 340-unit Artea project. BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
Corner Lot Development Group’s plan to build a 340-unit, four-story apartment building on land leased from the Jacksonville Transportation Authority on the Downtown Southbank is a step
closer to construction. The Downtown Development Review Board voted 7-0 on Oct. 14 to award the estimated $80 million project conceptual design approval. Board member Joseph Loretta was absent for the vote. A DDRB staff report says it would include a four-level, 425-space parking garage on the 3.87-acre site bounded by the Prudential Financial building’s surface parking lot, Broadcast SEE ARTEA, PAGE 2
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The 340-unit Artea apartments is planned south of the Duval County Public Schools headquarters on the Downtown Southbank.
Shoppes of Regal on Beach sells for $4.1 million Jacksonville-based TSG Realty paid $4.1 million Oct. 7 for the Shoppes of Regal shopping center at 14054 Beach Blvd. The 15,600-square-foot center is between Hodges Boulevard and San Pablo Road, across from the former Regal Cinemas site, which will be redeveloped into market-rate apartments. Regal Plaza LLC paid $920,000 for the property in 2015. “We are very pleased to be able to acquire a sizeable asset in this desirable section of Beach Boulevard,” said Pam Howard, TSG Realty property manager.
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