A new Hard Rock tower may soon be coming to downtown Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
Plans for the proposed skyscraper were unveiled during a Downtown Development Review Board workshop on Thursday.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Action News Jax’s Madison Foglio spoke with the project’s developer about his vision for the building.<\/p>\n The planned 30-story tower will have hotel rooms, condos, a nightclub, and more.<\/p>\n Developers of the proposed Hard Rock Jacksonville Hotel & Residences want to build the tower on Bay Street next to the U.S.S. Orleck.<\/p>\n It is the same property where the unfinished Berkman II building once stood before being demolished.<\/p>\n Michael Munz, president and CEO of Florida Innovation Capital, is the developer for Hard Rock Jacksonville.<\/p>\n “It will be a whole entertainment, hotel and residential development,” Munz said.<\/p>\n Munz provided renderings of the proposed tower to Action News Jax.<\/p>\n Notably, the tower features a portion designed to look like a record album.<\/p>\n “That is going to actually be a nightclub,” Munz said.<\/p>\n Munz said the development will also feature a strong musical influences.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n “We’ll have a strong musical theme also that pays homage to all the great music that’s come out of Jacksonville over the last couple of centuries,” Munz said.<\/p>\n Additionally, Munz said developers are looking to build a small auditorium for more entertainment purposes.<\/p>\n “We’re looking at doing things like comedy clubs, small entertainment, maybe music, writer festivals, things along those lines,” Munz said.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n Kevin Leis, who lives in Jacksonville, supports the idea of a Hard Rock tower downtown.<\/p>\n “That would be great,” Leis said. “We need more hotels. I mean, that is always good for growth and tourism.”<\/p>\n Missing from the Hard Rock tower is a casino, which Munz said could not be included due to Florida law.<\/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":"A new Hard Rock tower may soon be coming to downtown Jacksonville. Plans for the proposed skyscraper were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-417220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417220","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=417220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}