Jacksonville developer Steve Atkins shows Riverfront Jacksonville plan
The preliminary scope of financing would have the city shoulder $536 million of the cost for infrastructure, riverfront parks, the riverwalk, marina improvements and the proposal's Exhibition, Entertainment and Technology Center that Akins envisions rising up behind the Hyatt Regency Riverfront Hotel. A key to Southeast Development's approach is it would have a master developer for parcels of city-owned land that the Downtown Investment Authority has been marketing separately up to this point. "I'm a big believer in master plans and I think that the type of development that we need to see o...