THURSDAY January 10, 2019
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Future of aging stadium a concern
Daily Record IMPLOSION JACKSONVILLE City Hall Annex
220 E. Bay St. Built: 1960
Height: 15 floors Size: 200,140 square feet
PREPARATION Daily Record Acreage: 2.39
Implosion cost: $4.95 million
JACKSONVILLE History: The city moved most departments in 1997 to the St. James Building at 117 W. Duval St. Some departments remained for several more years.
With demolition of the former City Hall Annex Downtown scheduled for Jan. 20, neighboring businesses are getting ready. BY MAX MARBUT ASSOCIATE EDITOR
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Jaguars President Mark Lamping says the team is having conversations about TIAA Bank Field. BY DAVID CAWTON STAFF WRITER
Jacksonville Jaguars President Mark Lamping said Monday the team is thinking about how to address the aging TIAA Bank Field that it leases from the city. “There’s no question that TIAA Bank Field has aged well,” he said. “But at some point in time, there’s going to have to be a stadium solution.” Serious conversations about rebuilding or refurbishing TIAA B a n k Fi e l d aren’t likely this year, he Lamping said, but that doesn’t mean the team isn’t having internal conversations. “If we don’t start thinking about it, we’ll wake up one day and have a stadium that’s not meeting the needs of the fans or the community,” he said. His remarks come as he and Jaguars owner Shad Khan are putting plans in place to redevelop Lot J and other areas surrounding the stadium with offices, entertainment, residences and hotels. Lamping talked about the stadium in an interview after a panel discussion Monday night at the Omni Jacksonville Hotel hosted by The Downtown Dwellers, a group of residents from the Northbank and Southbank. He told the group about Khan’s
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fter weeks of preparation, when the switch is flipped to detonate the charges placed inside the building, it will take only seconds to complete the implosion of the former City Hall Annex. The neighbors around the Downtown block bordered by East Bay Street, Coastline Drive, Market and Newnan streets are preparing for the demolition and for the aftermath of dropping the 15-story structure onto its foundation. The north side of the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront is closest to where the rubble pile will be left behind. A narrow alley separates the annex from SEE IMPLOSION, PAGE 8
INSIDE How it will go down: A Q&A about the implosion and a map of the exclusion zone. Page 8
Photo by Max Marbut
Demolition workers continued their work Wednesday on the former City Hall Annex building at 200 E. Bay St. Workers are preparing the building for implosion on Jan. 20.
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