The city will reconsider its intent to revitalize Downtown along East Bay Street by adding more publicly owned real estate to its scope and nullifying a redevelopment proposal from Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan that was approved 19 months ago but never acted upon.
At the request of the mayor’s office, the Downtown Investment Authority is scheduled to consider a new request for proposals for redevelopment of not only the Shipyards property, but other urban riverfront property owned by the city.
Chief Administrative Officer Sam Mousa on Nov. 22 asked authority CEO Aundra Wallace to expand the real estate inventory in the RFP, title it “Notice of disposition/redevelopment of city-owned riverfront property” and to drop the phrase “known as the Shipyards site.”
Mayor Lenny Curry said Wednesday he wants to see improvements around EverBank Field, and East Bay Street from Metropolitan Park to the Plaza at Berkman condominiums. Mousa’s email did not say which properties he was referring to.
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