January 10, 2023

Historic Union Terminal Warehouse to transform into apartments, restaurants and more

Union Terminal Warehouse

By Kennedy Dendy, Action News Jax January 09, 2023 at 7:05 pm EST

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A project on Jacksonville’s Eastside is underway that will transform a warehouse with more than a century of history.

The Union Terminal Warehouse was built in 1913.

Columbia Ventures acquired the property in December 2018 and plans its adaptive reuse as a vibrant multi-family anchored mixed-use community.

Financing methods include utilizing historic tax credits and opportunity zone equity as key components of the capital stack.

The project site is at 700 East Union Street, and the work plans to help revitalize Jacksonville’s Eastside.

The site has been designed by Dasher Hurst Architects who says there will be market-rate apartments, restaurants, indoor parking, a rooftop terrace with great views of downtown and other retail spaces.

“It’s a nice area, quiet and everything — so I think it’d be good,” said Little John Cox who lives on the Eastside.

According to Columbia Ventures, when completed in 1913 — owner C.B. Gay declared it to be “the largest and finest warehouse in the state of Florida.”

Source: Action News JAX

January 9, 2023

Tepeyac Community Health Center Debuts A Massive New Clinic

48th and Race, Viña Apartments

Tepeyac’s new clinic is part of a development bringing affordable housing to Globeville and Elyria-Swansea.

Published on November 15, 2022

In the early 1990s, Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, a large Catholic parish in Denver’s Northside that’s a hub for local Latinos, faced a crisis. Nearly every day, people come to the office asking for help with medical or mental health, the pastor at the time told the parish council, and we don’t have anything to offer. Is anyone willing to take the lead on this issue? Jim Garcia, attending his first meeting of the church’s leadership group, raised his hand.

Back then, Garcia worked for Tim Wirth, a Democratic U.S. senator from Colorado. “It wasn’t like I had a health care background,” Garcia says. “But I did have an understanding of the issue from the policy level…. It turned out to be a lot more than I imagined.”

The church owned a run-down two-bedroom, 800-square-foot bungalow in the Highland neighborhood that could potentially serve as a free clinic, but bids to renovate the century-old house came in around $150,000. Garcia’s budget was $10,000. So, he stood up at a Sunday service and asked for volunteers. “More than 100 people showed up,” Garcia says. And they kept showing up, often working construction jobs by day and laboring at the clinic into the night.

Source: 5280.com

December 14, 2022

The Pivotal Role Wine Shops Are Playing in Creating Atlanta’s Wine Scene

Edgewood/Candler Park, Quill

Atlanta’s restaurant scene is booming, but for those who choose where to eat according to the wine list, something is missing: wine bars

by Samantha Maxwell Dec 13, 2022, 11:30am EST

“I feel like we have no wine bars here,” says Chris McLloyd, an Atlanta sommelier known as The Hip Hop Somm. He isn’t wrong. While there are plenty of restaurants with fantastic wine lists, Atlanta lacks true wine bars. Following the closure of 8ARM and its natural wine bar on Ponce de Leon Avenue, many wine drinkers continue to search for the beating heart of Atlanta’s wine scene. And they’re finding it in wine shops across the city.

VinoTeca in Inman Park holds weekend wine tastings and offers outdoor seating, as does Press Shop in Summerhill and Vin ATL in Edgewood, which features a large outdoor patio and cozy seating arrangements inside. Kelly’s Market, a local deli across the street from Kimball House in Decatur, offers selections from its wine stash on Thursday evenings, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., and Elemental Spirits Co. in Poncey-Highland shows off the shop’s low-intervention wines and spirits during regular tastings.

Source: Atlanta Eater