The view of the entrance from the One Riverside multifamily development.
The entrance to One Riverside from Riverside Avenue.
One Riverside as seen from the Riverside Avenue overpass.
One Riverside as seen from Riverside Avenue.
The masterplan for One Riverside.
The One Riverside entrance along Riverside Avenue.
A more detailed look at the master plan.
Less than three weeks after TriBridge Residential broke ground on 270 apartments at One Riverside in Brooklyn, Fuqua Development is seeking the city’s preliminary design approval for the project’s first retail phase that Whole Foods Market will anchor.
The Downtown Development Review Board is scheduled to vote Oct. 13 on conceptual designs for the 40,000-square-foot supermarket and an 8,000 square-foot retail building.
One Riverside will be built at the former Florida Times-Union campus at 1 Riverside Ave. on the Northbank next to the Acosta Bridge.
Atlanta-based developer Fuqua Development is developing the retail portion.
TriBridge Residential LLC of Atlanta is developing the apartments, and the city will develop a public park and restore McCoys Creek.
A staff report released Oct. 6 as part of the meeting agenda recommends the board sign off on the preliminary designs.
Staff was critical of the look of the signage wall on the northwestern side of the site that faces Riverside Avenue and Leila Street.
The report recommends the board require that side be redesigned as a condition to approval.
“The northern-most portion of the west elevation (signage wall) lacks visual interest, which is particularly important because this area is located closest to the intersection of Riverside Avenue and Leila Street,” the report says.
“Staff recommends that this portion of the elevation be redesigned to incorporate a feature with more visual interest at the level of the pedestrian.”
The retail designs will have to return to DDRB for final design approval before Fuqua can break ground.
Phillips Partnership is listed as the project architect. Prosser is the landscape architect and engineer.
Fuqua Development through Fuqua BCDC One Riverside Project Owner LLC is the master developer of the $250 million project.
Fuqua Development is represented in Jacksonville by attorneys at Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow.
The DDRB signed off on the master site plan for the 18.84-acre project in November 2021, and approved the residential designs in December 2021.
The first phase comprises the TriBridge apartments, a 625-space parking garage, Whole Foods, retail space and a 3,000-square-foot riverfront restaurant space.
The city will develop a park and a restored McCoys Creek.
The apartments and riverfront restaurant could open by year-end 2024, according to TriBridge Partner Katherine Mosley.
A second phase with about 125 units and two restaurants is planned, but that timing depends on development benchmarks on the site.
The Jacksonville City Council approved a $31.59 million incentives package Nov. 23 for One Riverside.
Fuqua bought the site in February and sold portions of it to TriBridge and the city.
Pece of Mind Environmental Inc. of Orlando began razing the newspaper buildings in February.
