Development Updates

LaVilla Place Former Pratt Funeral Home

Current Status: Under Construction
Silver Street Management's development team intends to convert the former funeral home into thirteen apartments and a retail space that could potentially become a restaurant, coffee shop or wine bar. The developer also plans to add a courtyard, swimming pool and parking lot just west of the building. Total Development Cost: $4.98 million

Lennox on Park

Current Status: Approved
Columbia Ventures is planning a five-story, 342 unit apartment building with 8,338 SF of restaurant and retail space, and 450 parking spaces on a vacant Brooklyn parcel. Investment: $100 million Status: In review

Liberty Street Marina

Current Status: Approved
Project includes developing a public marina in daylighted basin for approximately 50 boats of varying sizes with designated water taxi landing, fuel dock, pump-out station, and marina office with restrooms/showers.

Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park

Current Status: Under Construction
The Durkeeville Historical Society and city of Jacksonville collaborated to dedicate the birth site of Jacksonville’s Johnson brothers as the “Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing” Park. The park is named after the song written by John Rosamond Johnson and James Weldon Johnson in the late 1800s, which the NAACP calls the “Black National Anthem.” As part of the development strategy for LaVilla, the current Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park will be expanded and redesigned to celebrate the Johnson Brothers’ contributions to our nation. The park will invite people from all walks of life to honor these important Jacksonville natives. Designed by renowned landscape architect Walter Hood, the park includes a lifted lawn, a performance stage and a restored shotgun house placed on the parcel of the historic Johnson House. The park will be linked to 15 other historic neighborhoods and Downtown via the Emerald Trail. Currently under construction, the park is expected to open this summer.

Lofts at Cathedral

Current Status: Under Construction
The project, located in the Cathedral District, will be dubbed Lofts at Cathedral. Workforce housing downtown has become a staple of Vestcor's work. The company's Lofts at Monroe, Lofts at LaVilla, Lofts at Jefferson Station and Lofts at Brooklyn are some of the income-capped apartments it is supplying downtown and in surrounding neighborhoods, like Murray Hill. The Vestcor Companies Inc. will add 120 workforce housing apartments to the Cathedral District through the renovation of the former YWCA building and a new, adjacent structure. Investment: $39 million Status: Under construction

Mathers Social Gathering

Current Status: Approved
This project includes the Historic Renovation of 120 E Forsyth and adding Mathers Social Gathering as the tenant on the second floor. The first floor will be leased at a future date. The Renovation effort will invest $4.3M with the aid of the DIA Downtown Preservation and Revitalization Program. The Mathers development on the second floor is a $800,000 investment partially aided by the DIA's Food and Beverage Retail Enhancement Program.

McCoys Creek Park at One Riverside

Current Status: Proposed
McCoys Creek Park at One Riverside Ave will include approximately 2 acres of riverfront public park space along McCoys Creek. The project supports the completion of the McCoys Creek Restoration and Resiliency Project and enhances the adjacent One Riverside Ave private development. Features of the park include a natural bank along the creek on the park side, the Emerald Trail multi-use path on the west side of the creek, and a pedestrian bridge crossing the creek mid-park. The park will be accessible from Riverside Avenue as well as the Northbank Riverwalk. Possible park design may begin late 2022/early 2023.

McCoys Landing

Current Status: In Review
Garrison Companies is planning a 275 apartment complex with a flex lawn, dog run and bicycle shop along McCoy’s Creek on the edge of Brooklyn and LaVilla districts. Investment: $97 million Status: In review

Miller Electric Center

Current Status: Recently Completed
The Jacksonville Jaguars in partnership with the City, constructed a 125,000 SF center to house the Jacksonville Jaguars’ football operations and training facility with indoor practice field and outdoor grass fields with bleacher seating for 2,090 fans, and amenity area with concessions, public art and a pro shop. Investment: $120 million Status: Complete

MOSH Genesis

Current Status: In Review
MOSH plans to construct a new 130,000 SF museum on the Shipyards property with offerings including a walk-through aquifer exhibit and a water quality bio-lab. The project also includes associated parking and a private outdoor exhibit space. Additionally, a publicly accessible Riverwalk and public park space will be designed by the Developer. Investment: $100 million Status: In review