(12-04-2020, 01:13 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(12-04-2020, 01:06 PM)hb1148 Wrote: A quiet southern town with a nice beach community and a bit more economic diversity than some other parts of Florida. Rather have the Jags then not but not at any cost.

The problem is it is a nice quiet southern town with an uncomfortably large portion of the population and leadership that is content on being unprogressive. Too many in this town are perfectly content to stew in their own juices of mediocrity while ignoring, and even shunning, potential.

Wait, not taking on extra debt to pay for upgrades/investments/development projects for a billionaire is progressive.


Honestly IDK why we still argue about lot J. The demand obviously isn’t there and that’s why Khan won’t do it on his own and wants the city to ‘build it and they will come’ for him. He sees the downside and doesn’t think it’s worth going all in on his own. I agree, downtown Jax is not worth the money right now, and building lot J would be forcing the situation. Especially since Khan keeps flirting with moving to London I wouldn’t throw a red penny towards it. Khan is in charge here. If he wants to commit to Jacksonville then maybe I would help with that boondoggle, but anything less than 20+ years and there’s no way I go down that hole, we might never see ROI and basically end up with the orange bowl in Orlando (useless stadium used for random sporting events in a area that nobody really wants to live in).

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