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SEPTEMBER 2022, VOL. 15, ISSUE 09
New face for a familiar old place Plaza renovations underway along Hendricks Avenue
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BY MICHELE LEIVAS Resident Community News WEST ELEVATION
Construction on the Fuller Warren Bridge expansion and its shared-use path — as part of the improvements to the I-10/I-95 interchange — began in 2017. Six years later, work on the bridge’s pedestrian- and bicyclefriendly path is near completion and it is expected to open this fall amid much fanfare on both sides of the St. Johns River. When the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) first presented its proposal to expand the bridge, Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP) Executive Director Shannon Blankinship recalled it being met with opposition. “Most people who showed up to the public meetings were like, ‘We don’t need an expanded Fuller Warren Bridge; we don’t need any extra lane,’” she said. Once the idea of also installing a shared-use path along the bridge was introduced, though, Blankinship said the opposition very quickly switched to support for the idea and thus began the six-year process of designing and constructing a separate lane for pedestrians and cyclists to safely cross the St. Johns River from San Marco to Riverside and vice versa.
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Facade renovations are underway for Miramar Plaza on Hendricks Avenue in San Jose. Longtime residents might recognize it as the once-home of Piner’s Lock and Safe, the former anchor store of the shopping center. Lead architect on the project, Thomas Duke of Thomas Duke Architect, said he recalls shopping at the neighborhood hardware store back when he and his wife were newly married and said it’s “very rewarding” to be part of this project to renovate the shopping center. “Whenever you can renovate and alter an existing space and reuse what’s there, that’s
always a good thing,” he said. “…Sometimes The shopping center was purchased by the cost becomes prohibitive in renovating Nackashi and Nackashi, LLC — a father-andbuildings, but typically, if you can, you end son partner-ship comprised of Joe Nackashi up with a space that has some character and his son Gabriel. Joe said his son first saw that’s kinda hard to recreate from scratch. the center for sale and reached out to him So a lot of times renovating a building, you about it. CONCEPTUAL ELEVATION FOR end up with an end product that’s different “When he found that building, I thought, MIR AMA R PLAZA than had you just started with a project that ‘You know what Gabriel, that’s a great idea,’” didn’t have any constraints to it.” Joe recalled. “So we decided to start our little General contractor Edd Langdon of Ticon partnership and buy it and transform it into Commercial LLC said construction on the what I hope to be a landmark building for shopping center has been going on for some the historic part of San Jose. My mother lives time. The facade renovations, which began in the area, my family lives in the area so it in early August, includes updating the store- was important to me from a personal fronts and replacing all the glass. perspective.” “We’ve re-roofed 90 percent of the building According to Langdon, the next phase of already and a lot of work’s been going on for construction will be focused on the parking lot. a while there because it is an older shopping The shopping center is expected to be center,” Langdon said. “We love the project… completed by the end of the year. Milkster, a It’s got its challenges but it’s gonna look great nitrogen creamery, will be moving in as a when it’s done.” new tenant on the north end of the center.
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The first customer throught he turnstiles at the East San Marco Publix was Reece Livingston, who hustled into the store and was photographed with his mother Samantha. SEE PAGE 18
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