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Developer buys former Times-Union property; demolition is imminent

Stairs leading from One River to the Northbank Riverwalk along the St. Johns.
Jacksonville Daily Record
Stairs leading from One River to the Northbank Riverwalk along the St. Johns.

Atlanta-based developer Jeff Fuqua bought the former Florida Times-Union property Feb. 4 and said demolition will start quickly for what he estimates will be a $250 million redevelopment of the Downtown Northbank riverfront site into One Riverside.

“This will be a famous project in Jacksonville when we are done,” he said after the late-afternoon purchase from 1 Riverside Property LLC, owned by the Morris family of Augusta, Georgia.

“This is pretty monumental. It will be quite a place.”

Read the rest of this story at WJCT News partner the Jacksonville Daily Record.