FIRST COAST COMMUTER RAIL TOD STUDY | EXISTING CONDITIONS
FIRST COAST COMMUTER RAIL TOD STUDY | EXISTING CONDITIONS
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STATION AREA CHARACTER
LAND USE AND KEY PLACES
The San Marco neighborhood was established in the 1920s as a planned Italian Renaissance neighborhood. San Marco Square and Balis Park make up the neighborhood core in the west, and is a pedestrian scaled, mixed-use neighborhood destination with open space, essential retail, entertainment, restaurants, and boutiques. San Marco Square has preserved its character, giving the western limits of the station area a distinct identity. There are several parks and a school within the station area that have also preserved East San Marco’s neighborhood’s identity. This area has experienced some private development interest recently because of its proximity to San Marco Square and Downtown. Small businesses like Southern Grounds & Co. have activated main roads to become retail corridors, extending the core retail area beyond San Marco Square. To the east, raised highway infrastructure has limited a similar experience, fracturing residential areas south of Downtown. Auto-oriented commercial and office settings line the built infrastructure, further preventing a cohesive station area east and west of the rail line.
In recent years, development and land uses in this station area have transitioned from low density, auto- centric land uses to an urban setting. This station now has ample amounts of commercial, Hotel and Hospitality, and Mixed-use zoning along Atlantic Boulevard, Hendricks Avenue, and San Marco Boulevard to the east. San Marco Square, an established Mixed Use commercial area around Balis Park is the core of the San Marco neighborhood and is a quarter mile from Jackson Square Station. There are several key attractions in that area, including San Marco Theater, and a host of restaurant choices. Land uses beyond the commercial spine are Office and Cultural and Education, and transition towards Residential, especially to the south. New residential developments like The Barlow, Exchange and San Marco Promenade have transformed some of the underutilized land uses near Atlantic Boulevard or I-95 into higher density residential nodes. There are some vacant parcels around the central commercial area already under construction or have proposed new developments including a Publix grocery store to support neighborhood growth.
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Atlantic Boulevard Intersection with Railroad
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San Marco Boulevard Balis Park
Figure 3-80: JACKSON SQUARE STATION AREA CHARACTER IMAGES
Figure 3-81: JACKSON SQUARE STATION LAND USE
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