After sitting idle more than 40 years, a badly polluted part of Jacksonville’s Talleyrand waterfront could become a working dock again once a long-awaited cleanup is finished.
The former site of a Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp. factory and warehouse has become the subject of a development agreement city officials are pursuing to reopen the property at 1611 Talleyrand Ave.
The agreement, which could be introduced to Jacksonville’s City Council Aug. 10, would offer CertainTeed Gypsum Operating Co. LLC up to $3.4 million in property-tax breaks if it invests at least $55 million and creates at least 20 jobs by the end of 2024.
The agreement “seems like a pretty good deal,” city Chief Administrative Officer Brian Hughes said before the Mayor’s Budget Review Committee signed off last week.