Atlanta-based Columbia Ventures plans to restore, convert building into apartments.

Atlanta-based Columbia Ventures LLC applied to the city for selective demolition within the Union Terminal Warehouse at 700 E. Union St. as it plans to convert the structure for mixed uses.

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Columbia Ventures intends to convert the structure into apartments through adaptive reuse and a historic tax credit conversion.

Plans say the demolition is for a project that involves the remodeling of the historic Union Terminal Warehouse built in 1913.

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Source JaxDailyRecord.com

OPINION
By Frank Denton
Jacksonville.com/The Florida Times-Union

Driving out East Union Street from the Downtown core, you have to be careful to take the Union exit, or you’ll find yourself on the Mathews Bridge into Arlington. So take the exit, then an unmarked left and a right to stay on what’s left of Union.

There, in a gritty, grimy, obscure industrial corner of Downtown…, you’ll find the massive Union Terminal Warehouse, a piece of Jacksonville industrial history that could become part of its creative future.

Behind its aged steel doors, scores of pioneer artists and makers have carved out their own studios in creating the third piece of what one called the “golden triangle” of arts districts, joining CORK in Riverside and the Phoenix Arts District in Springfield.

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Source: Jacksonville.com/The Florida Times-Union