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09:41 PM EST Share Downtown Investment Authority and city officials will select a design by July for the site now called Riverfront Plaza. Three national design firms pitched their visions June 24 for a city park at the former Jacksonville Landing on the St. Johns River Downtown. The design teams, Agency Landscape + Planning LLC, Olin Partnership Ltd. and Perkins & Will Inc., pitched plans at the Main Public Library Downtown to a panel of city officials and local business and nonprofit leaders. “Our desire is to become a city of vision and reality instead of a city of renderings,” said Haskell landscape architect Chris Flagg during public comment. ....
05:10 AM EST Share City officials want to get rid of the unfinished riverfront high-rise despite a potential buyer with an active permit to tear it down. Three out-of-state companies submitted bids as part of the city’s order to demolish the unfinished Berkman Plaza II while a potential developer says his group will buy the site within days. City Procurement Division officials opened bids April 14 that range from $1.68 million to $2.34 million. The step shows the city continues to move ahead on its tear-down order for the Downtown structure as it also approved a demolition permit in January for Jacksonville Riverfront Revitalization, which wants to buy the site. ....