The proposed Southeast campus would bring a 50,000-square-foot culinary school downtown. Supporters say it could be a major boost for jobs, tourism, and economic development.<\/p>\n
Matt Carlucci, Jacksonville City Councilman at-large, says he still has questions about what the project will deliver.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could be a 35- to 37-million-dollar incentive towards a project that\u2019s worth maybe 50 million. It might even be more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He says, while he does have concerns, he still expects to support the project.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWhat does it bring to Jacksonville? How much initial tax revenue does it bring to Jacksonville? How many employees? What are the quality-of-life factors?\u201d<\/p>\n Carlucci says those are the types of details city leaders are still reviewing.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are a lot of question marks about this, which is troubling. But it\u2019s not binding.\u201d<\/p>\n The Jacksonville Chamber is backing the proposal, pointing to the CIA\u2019s campus in San Antonio, which the school says has generated more than $21 billion in economic impact over 16 years.<\/p>\n However, the project also comes with a potentially significant public investment.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Carlucci says the Downtown Investment Authority will ultimately review whether the numbers make sense.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen it goes to the Downtown Investment Authority, the authority determines if there is a good return on investment.\u201d<\/p>\n The City Council is expected to take a formal vote next week on whether the city would like to see the culinary institute come here. Details of the incentives package would be handled later.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Culinary Institute of America is expected to make its final site decision in June.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The proposed Southeast campus would bring a 50,000-square-foot culinary school downtown. Supporters say it could be a major…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[37804,7143,761,116,118,117],"class_list":["post-279081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-culinary-school","tag-economic-development","tag-free-action-news-jax","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}