09:41 PM EST Share Downtown Investment Authority and city officials will select a design by July for the site now called Riverfront Plaza.
Three national design firms pitched their visions June 24 for a city park at the former Jacksonville Landing on the St. Johns River Downtown.
The design teams, Agency Landscape + Planning LLC, Olin Partnership Ltd. and Perkins & Will Inc., pitched plans at the Main Public Library Downtown to a panel of city officials and local business and nonprofit leaders.
“Our desire is to become a city of vision and reality instead of a city of renderings,” said Haskell landscape architect Chris Flagg during public comment.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis is working on guidelines meant to stop COVID-19 vaccination “tourism” in Florida. Appearing at two news conferences Tuesday, DeSantis said he wants to make sure the state’s COVID-19 vaccine supply is being directed to Florida residents. “That can include people who live here half the year, but it’s not for people just visiting,” the governor said during an appearance in Rockledge. The effort came after media reports about people from outside the state coming to Florida to get vaccinated. [Source: WJXT]
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05:10 AM EST Share Three companies each will receive up to $125,000 to submit plans to compete for the winning bid.
The Downtown Investment Authority will issue a request for proposals Jan. 20 for public park space designs at the former Jacksonville Landing, according to CEO Lori Boyer.
The Professional Services Evaluation Committee of the city Procurement Division approved the DIA’s plan Jan. 14 to select three firms that will submit designs for a minimum 4.5-acre riverfront park/plaza.
A Jan. 11 memorandum Boyer sent to city Procurement Division Chief Greg Pease outlines the DIA’s two-phase plan to spend up to $375,000 to solicit design options for the public space in what’s now renamed “Riverfront Plaza.”