Khan's Jacksonville Shipyards Plans Revealed

[KenFSU]

The alternate developer claims that he would even be willing to buy land around the stadium and build a practice field for the Jaguars, if requested.

Be interesting to see what the proposal looks like, but on the surface, it sounds a little outlandish.

[mtraininjax]

Probably more to come. Tim Gibbons is also tweeting from the meeting and says:

DIA CEO Wallace suggests 30 days window for other Shipyards submittal. Long enough for developers "if they are serious about it".

[hiddentrack]

How's this for a rumor.  Search on Felix Sabates and Trinity Yachts.  Trinity is based in New Orleans, Felix in Charlotte.  Commong denominiator? NASCAR! and Daytona is just down the road.  Felix has the juice.  I love it.

Where'd the name Felix Sabates and Trinity Yachts pop up? The only name I've seen mentioned for this new mystery proposal is Patrick Mullen / Shitaki Enterprises / Shitaki Marine & Yacht Refinishing.

Edit: Reading that over again I think I misread your post as you disputing the earlier posts with info you'd heard. Carry on... 

[edjax]

The Mullen guy supposedly has a home in Jax. Says woukd move HQ to Jax. Has 85 employees now. Expect 250 in 18 months and 5k in 5 years.  Hmmm. Seems even more pie in sky than Khans pretty pictures.

[downtownbrown]

How's this for a rumor.  Search on Felix Sabates and Trinity Yachts.  Trinity is based in New Orleans, Felix in Charlotte.  Commong denominiator? NASCAR! and Daytona is just down the road.  Felix has the juice.  I love it.

Where'd the name Felix Sabates and Trinity Yachts pop up? The only name I've seen mentioned for this new mystery proposal is Patrick Mullen / Shitaki Enterprises / Shitaki Marine & Yacht Refinishing.

Edit: Reading that over again I think I misread your post as you disputing the earlier posts with info you'd heard. Carry on... 

Completely out of thin air.

[copperfiend]

The Mullen guy supposedly has a home in Jax. Says woukd move HQ to Jax. Has 85 employees now. Expect 250 in 18 months and 5k in 5 years.  Hmmm. Seems even more pie in sky than Khans pretty pictures.

Another pied piper to get everyone's hopes up? Are we falling for this one again?

[KenFSU]

The Mullen guy supposedly has a home in Jax. Says woukd move HQ to Jax. Has 85 employees now. Expect 250 in 18 months and 5k in 5 years.  Hmmm. Seems even more pie in sky than Khans pretty pictures.

Another pied piper to get everyone's hopes up? Are we falling for this one again?

From 85 employees to 5,000 within 5 years.

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me

[downtownbrown]

http://www.wokv.com/news/news/local/second-bid-shipyards-redevelopment-comes-forward/nkP6q/

totally different concept.  No northbank riverwalk to the stadium

[PeeJayEss]

Is this other "bidder" just a fabrication of Khan to make his shipyards concept, which is lacking, look even better?

[KenFSU]

Interesting.... Get paid for the land "as is" and get a smaller shipyard with some public space and a market thrown in. Or give away the land for free, pay for the clean up and let Khan be the master developer of something that will include a training facility for the Jags? So what will it be?

Throwing everything else out, I don't think industrial is the way to go with the Shipyards property.

Per the developer, approximately 2/3 of the site would be used for ship repair.

Not sure if the logistics would allow it, but something like this seems better fit for Commodore Point than the Shipyards.

[copperfiend]

If this proposal is legit (which I doubt), it could go plenty of other places.

[Rynjny]

"Between 1997 and 2008 there was a massive growth in the number, size and popularity of large private or super-luxury yachts," the presentation says in one of several slides that appear to have been copied from Wikipedia.

ahahahahaha

[JBTripper]

Yep. We are being punked for sure.

[Rynjny]

Yep. We are being punked for sure.

Watch...city of Jacksonville going to think this is real..

[hiddentrack]

Is this other "bidder" just a fabrication of Khan to make his shipyards concept, which is lacking, look even better?

It seemed more like a way to take the shine off Khan's proposal so people can talk about a developer offering to 1) buy the property from the city and 2) cover site cleanup.

Of course everything I've read about this new proposal makes it seem like it's not very serious. I also don't see how turning 2/3 of the property into a yacht repair facility comes anywhere close to meeting DIA's vision for the property.