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New Brooklyn apartments get design approval

Columbia Ventures plans a five-story, 341-unit mixed-use apartment community at Park and Forest streets in Brooklyn.
Jacksonville Daily Record
Columbia Ventures plans a five-story, 341-unit mixed-use apartment community at Park and Forest streets in Brooklyn.

Atlanta-based Columbia Ventures LLC is a step closer to breaking ground on its proposed five-story, 341-unit mixed-use apartment community at Park and Forest streets in Brooklyn.

The Downtown Development Review Board voted 7-0 on Thursday to grant final design approval for the residential and retail project at Forest and Park streets that Columbia Ventures co-founder and Managing Partner Dillon Baynes said in an email May 9 will be a $100 million investment.

He said the company “loves the Florida Story, the Sunbelt Story and the Jacksonville Story,” Baynes said in the email.

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