Another Shad Khan downtown Jacksonville development proposal hits a roadblock National Park Service rejects swap of Shipyards for Metro Park property Updated: Tags: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Another development proposal by Jaguars owner Shad Khan has hit a complication. Khan wants to replace Metropolitan Park with a hotel and mixed-use property and proposed the Shipyards property as a replacement for the park. But according to a message from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, the National Park Service denied the proposal, saying the Shipyards land “will not be considered as replacement property for Metro Park.” The need for land to replace Metro Park goes back to a $1.7 million grant and agreement the city of Jacksonville made with the Department of Environmental Protection in 1981.