JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Out with the old and in with the new in Jacksonville\u2019s urban core, at least as it pertains to the old Museum of Science and History (MOSH) property.<\/p>\n
City officials outlined plans for the site at Jacksonville City Hall on Monday morning, outlining that it\u2019d cost roughly $1.5 million to renovate the space, so it\u2019s likely headed instead for demolition.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cWe definitely don\u2019t wanna put $1.5 million into that building,\u201d Jacksonville City Councilman Jimmy Peluso said. \u201cI think ultimately, it\u2019s gonna get demolished whenever a developer comes in and has a plan and everything. So that would be a little bit my preference.\u201d<\/p>\n However, city leaders did say Monday they\u2019re looking to maintain and simply repurpose other downtown landmarks, like the old Snyder Memorial Church property on Laura Street.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019d love to see it be a restaurant, music, entertainment, something that people could go to and enjoy,\u201d Downtown Investment Authority CEO Colin Tarbert said Monday. \u201cIt\u2019s a cool building with great interior space. We\u2019d much prefer that over a conversion into apartments or if its only a private office building.\u201d<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n While its future use is still to be determined, DIA officials also mentioned they\u2019re looking ahead to the potential of the grass fields next to the riverfront Hyatt, continuing to reshape downtown into an epicenter of retail, dining, recreation and entertainment.<\/p>\n \u201cThat was only focused on residential, as well as ground floor retail and parking,\u201d Harbert said. \u201cI think we\u2019re gonna look at a variety of mixed uses.\u201d<\/p>\n City leaders said the future use of the old MOSH site and Snyder Memorial Church are expected to come more into focus with RFPs and solicitations in 2026.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/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":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Out with the old and in with the new in Jacksonville\u2019s urban core, at least…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,33223,28,348,116,351,118,117,36032,36031,349,36033,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-59148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-downtown-investment-authority","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jimmy-peluso","tag-museum-of-science-and-history","tag-northeast-florida","tag-snyder-memorial-church","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59148","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=59148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}