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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. ....
The public art project in front of the Duval County Courthouse will comprise two sculptures entitled “These Truths.” Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville officials, a member of the artist selection panel and a local poet who will contribute to the project unveiled the design, by artist Cliff Garten of Cliff Garten Design Studio in Venice, California, at a June 1 news conference in front of the Downtown structure. Artist Cliff Garten of Cliff Garten Design Studio in Venice, California The art will comprise two stainless steel ribbons emblazoned with the words “justice,” “equality,” “equity” and “freedom.” The sculpture will depict writings from the foundational texts of American democracy with additional contributions by local authors and poets. It will be illuminated at night. ....
Share North River Company (NRC) and North Colony Asset Management (NC) have refinanced the Matsil Building in Long Island City with a $51 million loan from affiliates of AIG. Cushman & Wakefield served as the exclusive advisor to a joint venture owners is securing the fixed rate financing for the 312,513 s/f industrial property that is fully leased to Maquette Fine Art Services, Ralph Lauren Corporation and Motorola Solutions and features an adjacent half-acre parking lot and direct interior loading docks. NRC and North Colony bought the one-time factory building from Metropolitan Realty Associates and TH Real Estate for $72 million in 2018. “Since acquiring the property in December 2018, ownership ....