One Riverside apartments are planned along the Northbank Riverwalk at the former Florida Times-Union site.
The city issued construction permits Aug. 29 and Aug. 30 for the foundations of two seven-story apartment buildings and a parking garage.
A few walls remained Sept. 12 at 1 Riverside Ave., where The Florida Times-Union campus has been demolished for apartment, retail and park development. (Scott Simpson)
he site is being demolished by Pece Of Mind Environmental Inc. of Orlando.
Apartments, restaurants, retail and a Whole Foods Market are planned at the site.
With the last walls crumbling, the developer of the One Riverside apartments scheduled groundbreaking at noon Sept. 22 at the site of the former Florida Times-Union campus that is being demolished.
TriBridge Residential LLC, Live Oak Contracting LLC, Prosser, Dwell Design Studio, Banko Design and LandDesign plan to ceremonially turn dirt at 1 Riverside Ave. for the apartments planned along the Downtown riverfront next to the Acosta Bridge.
Fuqua Development intends to develop Whole Foods Market and other retail space, while the city will uncover and restore McCoys Creek and develop a public park.
The One Riverside Jacksonville project is designed for the 18.84-acre Northbank site where the daily newspaper operated.
The Times-Union campus was built in 1967 at 1 Riverside Ave. The Morris family bought the property and the newspaper in 1982. It sold the paper in 2017. The paper moved to Wells Fargo Center in April 2019.
Fuqua Development of Atlanta bought the site Feb. 4 for $25 million. It sold 4.3 acres to TriBridge for $15.5 million for the apartments.
The city issued a demolition permit Feb. 25 for the Times-Union buildings. The site is being demolished by Pece Of Mind Environmental Inc. of Orlando.
The apartments are about to take shape.
Citizens Bank of Charlotte, North Carolina, financed the TriBridge project with a $69.7 million construction mortgage Aug. 25. The borrower was TBR One Riverside Owner LLC in Atlanta.
The mortgage is for the first phase on the site.
The city issued construction permits Aug. 29 and Aug. 30 for the foundations of two seven-story apartment buildings and a parking garage.
The permits show a construction cost of $14.1 million for those foundations.
The city issued a site work permit Aug. 19 for TriBridge to clear its acreage at a cost of $4 million. It is a horizontal development permit.
Live Oak Contracting is the contractor. Dwell Design Studio of Atlanta is the architect. Prosser is the civil engineer. Banko Design is the interior apartment designer. LandDesign is the landscape architect.
The St. Johns River Water Management District issued a permit July 1 for TriBridge Residential’s proposed first-phase 271-unit apartment project along with a 3,000-square-foot apartment amenity and a 130-seat restaurant and patio.
Plans filed Feb. 18 show TriBridge Residential’s two apartment buildings along the Riverwalk and St. Johns River.
Building 1000 is connected to the restaurant, which includes patio seating. Building 2000 has a swimming pool along the river. The eight-level, 625-space parking garage is between Building 2000 and a grocery store that will front Riverside Avenue.
A 3,000-square-foot apartment amenity building is next to the garage. There is a proposed dog run near the Riverwalk, in addition to pedestrian plazas and public art.
TriBridge plans 125 more apartments in a second phase.
