City agrees to help fund Four Seasons on Shipyards site. What’s now?

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The metropolis of Jacksonville volition subsidize $114 successful taxation dollars for the gathering plans. Council members judge it's a just commercialized disconnected to bring beingness to the country astir TIAA slope field.

Now that Jacksonville City Council has fixed thumbs up to helping Jaguars proprietor Shad Khan physique a luxury edifice connected the aged Shipyards project, we’re looking into what’s next.

The council voted unanimously Tuesday nighttime to o.k. $114 cardinal successful incentives to physique a Four Seasons Hotel, condominiums and an bureau analyzable to the site. This volition bring large changes downtown, Metropolitan Park and the Northbank of the St. Johns River implicit the adjacent fewer years.

For 2 decades, News4Jax has reported connected plans to make the Shipyards property, which runs connected the riverfront broadside of Bay Street betwixt Maxwell House Coffee to Metropolitan Park. This is the 2nd clip the metropolis has agreed to money a improvement connected the site.

Final plans for the caller task person to beryllium drawn up and approved and the Fire Museum volition request to beryllium relocated, but Jaguars’ officials said we could spot a groundbreaking adjacent year.

Mayor Lenny Curry is grateful for the council’s vote.

“Dirt cranes and buildings, but I deliberation much importantly this sends a connection to the concern assemblage to Wall Street, to developers astir the state that Jacksonville is acceptable to determination forward,” Curry said. “In the past fewer years we’ve heard we’ve had radical scope retired to america radical privation to put wealth successful our downtown but they don’t person assurance that they tin crook it speedy enough. That they tin get the votes. That we are superior astir it.”

There is simply a batch happening successful that country this fall. The Hart Bridge ramp on Bay Street adjacent TIAA Bank Field is mostly removed, but enactment continues. The unfinished Berkman II condominium gathering is scheduled to travel down adjacent month. Plans for the improvement the aged Jacksonville Landing spot person been approved, though the statute projected for the parkland is inactive drafting controversy.