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Pushback on design of Vestcor Lofts at Cathedral
DesignDaily board OKs One Riverside Record site plan, apartment concept JACKSONVILLE
The DDRB postponed the project’s conceptual approval after concerns.
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BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
dential to develop the apartments. The plan also would restore McCoys Creek and add a public park that will be owned and maintained by the city. The park property is on the east side of the property. Three City Council committees each voted 6-0 on Nov. 15-16 to advance $31.59 million incentives package for the development to the full Council. The Rules Committee was set to vote Nov. 16, after deadline for publication. The Downtown Investment Author-
Neighborhood residents and Downtown Development Review Board members spoke out Nov. 10 against designs for The Vestcor Companies’ nearly $29 million proposed renovation and addition to the historic YWCA Building in the Cathedral District. Leaders of Cathedral District Jax-Inc., the Downtown neighborhood’s nonprofit renewal organization, said the issue is not Vestcor’s plans for the YWCA building but the “suburban apartment design” of the new construction. C a t h e d ra l District-Jax CEO and President Ginny Myrick told Myrick the DDRB at its Nov. 10 meeting that the nonprofit does not think the project’s new construction meets the Cathedral District design standards approved earlier this year. Myrick said she met with Vestcor leadership three times about the concerns and the company did not change the general design. “So, they say they’ll work on it but I don’t have confidence that they’re going to do the work that we think needs to be done,” Myrick said. The DDRB, which reviews Downtown projects for zoning code compliance and design guidelines, agreed with the nonprofit and tabled its vote on the conceptual design until December. Vestcor has been trying for
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An artists’s rendering of the pool area at the proposed One Riverside development as seen from the Northbank Riverwalk along the St. Johns River. One Riverside is an estimated $182.2 million apartment and retail project at the former Florida Times-Union site in Brooklyn. For a photo gallery of the development renderings and plans, visit JaxDailyRecord.com.
City Council committees voted Nov. 15-16 to advance nearly $32 million in incentives for the project at the former Times-Union site in Brooklyn. BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
The Downtown Development Review Board is advancing plans for an Atlantabased developer’s estimated $182.2 million residential/retail replacement of the
former Florida Times-Union building in Brooklyn. The board, which reviews Downtown plans for zoning code compliance and design guidelines, met Nov. 10 and unanimously approved the final site plan for the multiphase development and the conceptual design for the 270-unit mixed-use apartments in phase one. Developer Fuqua Development LLC wants to demolish the T-U building and construct the One Riverside residential and retail project on about 13.42 acres at 1 Riverside Ave. along the St. Johns River. Fuqua partnered with TriBridge Resi-
Lothman Lambert sworn in as U.S. magistrate judge U.S. District Judge Harvey Schlesinger swore in Laura Lothman Lambert on Nov. 4 as the U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida’s new U.S. magistrate judge. She is in the Jacksonville Division, where she previously was Schlesinger’s law clerk and an assistant U.S. attorney. Lambert also clerked for U.S. Circuit Judge Phyllis Kravitch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit and was a trial attorney in the Constitutional Torts Section of the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Most recently, Lambert directed the Juvenile Division of the State Attorney’s Office for the 4th Judicial Circuit. Lambert succeeds U.S. Magistrate Judge James Klindt, who retired Oct. 31.
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