Khan's Jacksonville Shipyards Plans Revealed

[menace1069]

With the deadline now up, it's kind of sad to see so little interest in the property.

What are you talking about? There are 3 viable projects. The third is the real deal and I think is gonna give Khan a run for his money.

(heavy sarcasm in this response)

[Tacachale]

Very sad. Well, hopefully we can at least work out reasonable deals with the winner.

[Todd_Parker]

With the deadline now up, it's kind of sad to see so little interest in the property.

Well, it looks like Jacksonville's only hope for downtown revitalization is for Shad Khan to develop the whole thing (Shipyards, Laura St. Trio, anything else he wants). We should just give him all the available land and offer a generous cut of any tax revenues that are derived from his projects. At least, we'll have something pretty to look at and it's not as if the COJ will ever solve their budgetary issues to fund the projects themselves.

[thelakelander]

With the deadline now up, it's kind of sad to see so little interest in the property.

You were not going to get much feedback from a 30 day deadline when two of the other proposals have had months to iron out something. It's a waste of resources when you can invest your development money in much better markets across the globe.

[Downtown Osprey]

Loved that he used MapQuest. Fuck a google maps.

[ProjectMaximus]

With the deadline now up, it's kind of sad to see so little interest in the property.

You were not going to get much feedback from a 30 day deadline when two of the other proposals have had months to iron out something. It's a waste of resources when you can invest your development money in much better markets across the globe.

I heard InHim had been preparing their proposal for 2015 years.

[Downtown Osprey]

^ Heard the same and their attention to detail shows! R for Restroom.

[FSBA]

I watched News4Jax's story on InHim's proposal. Most. Jacksonville. Thing. Ever.

[ProjectMaximus]

Sounds like Jax:

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=545264

^ Heard the same and their attention to detail shows! R for Restroom.

Where did you find his sketches?

[downtownbrown]

I watched News4Jax's story on InHim's proposal. Most. Jacksonville. Thing. Ever.

friggin hilarious comment.

[Downtown Osprey]

https://twitter.com/ACNewsman/status/588479352423194624  <<<<

[copperfiend]

I watched News4Jax's story on InHim's proposal. Most. Jacksonville. Thing. Ever.

Duuuuuvaaaaal

[Tacachale]

With the deadline now up, it's kind of sad to see so little interest in the property.

You were not going to get much feedback from a 30 day deadline when two of the other proposals have had months to iron out something. It's a waste of resources when you can invest your development money in much better markets across the globe.

Totally. It was a formality so the city could act like they were actually trying to find real bidders. Too typical, and sad.

[FSBA]

They have a website http://inhimproperties.com/.  Half of it is still in Lorem Ipsum.

But it confirms he's the #1 real estate developer in the Philippines

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

It was a formality so the city could act like they were actually trying to find real bidders. Too typical, and sad.

Even if that statement is 100% true (I feel it's in the high 90's myself), does that change the fact that there is generally ZERO interest on that property from other developers?

Short of selling out with a complete marketing campaign from the city nation-wide to garner interest prior to setting out a 'legitimate' RFP, I don't believe it would have mattered if there was a 30 day window or a 30 year window.  The property has been sitting vacant for 2 decades with a handful of pie-in-the-sky development proposals that were relying on a housing market that this nation has never seen before. 

Khan's interest in the property is based on a more realistic and sustainable idea - enhancing his other major investment in the city.