State officials planning to pump water from Black Creek to Keystone Heights want to use filtering lessons from a sewage treatment plant to solve a water-color issue.
Another bottled water company wants to put a straw in North Central Florida’s aquifer and is encountering opposition.
Niagara, a California-based bottler, has proposed pumping up to nearly 2.9 million gallons a day from the aquifer. It would be bottled at a Columbia County industrial park in a three-party project with the city and county to get permitting and build the plant.
However, Lake City has indicated it will not approve the deal and the county’s economic development advisory board has recommended that the County Commission also pass.
“Given the proposed requirements of the County, the City’s indication that it would not enter into a three-way contract, and the tight deadlines set by (Niagara), the advice of the (advisory board) was not to move forward with this economic development agreement,” wrote Commissioner Tim Murphy, the advisory board’s chairman.
05:10 AM EST Share When it comes to progress in Northeast Florida in the new year, these are the projects that will be driving headlines.
Downtown Northbank
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed but did not stall retail, hotel and residential development and public infrastructure projects on Jacksonville’s Downtown Northbank.
Downtown Investment Authority CEO Lori Boyer expects work to begin this year adapting several roadways into two-way streets. Staff also plans to ask its board to issue a request for proposals seeking designs for a public riverfront park at the former Jacksonville Landing.
The Lot J mixed-use development.
An expansion to the DIA’s financial incentives for historic building renovations could close financial gaps in historic projects.
The giant Lake Apopka and Clermont's Lake Minneola are very different in size and appearances but they have been given a new round of help recently to fight off a common scourge, harmful algae thriving on water pollution.
02:16 PM EST Share Preston Hollow Capital plans to start infrastructure work in early 2021 for the estimated $600 million mixed-use development.
Preston Hollow Capital LLC’s will meet its deadline from the Downtown Investment Authority to secure bond financing to fund site infrastructure for its $600 million project The District on Jacksonville’s Downtown Southbank.
Preston Hollow Managing Director Ramiro Albarran
The DIA announced Dec. 22 that The District Community Development District closed on $35.56 million in bonds. Preston Hollow Managing Director Ramiro Albarran said in an interview that the money was sent by wire transfer earlier in the day.
“We think it’s going to be an energizing project for the city of Jacksonville,” Albarran said.