A city committee has filed its final report on what needs to happen to move the county jail out of downtown and build a new, $1 billion campus-style facility somewhere in Duval County.
New Insider Deals are perfect for spring and summerThe Duval County jail, or John E. Goode Pre-trial Detention Facility, is currently located just off East Bay Street in downtown Jacksonville.– It starts with the formation of a blue-ribbon committee to request proposals for the design of a new jail.
The vision is to turn an old, overcrowded and deteriorating jail downtown into a facility to support people’s behavioral and mental health concerns.“Number one, you can build it as you need it. Number two, you can isolate those with particular issues. And if one facility as compared to, one size does not fit all, and that’s really what we’re looking at with our current facility,” Boylan said.“We got some people that’s going to help us get a spot,” Waters said.
The committee hopes to streamline the pre-design planning phase of construction so it doesn’t have to rely on costly consultants. As far as the Police Memorial Building, Boylan said the process of moving JSO administrative staff to the Florida Blue building is already underway.“What it does, it benefits us to focus the next group to take a look at the detention facility singularly and not worry about necessarily for the short term or even the long-term housing facility for the administration,” Boylan said.They expect another two to three years after that before starting construction.
“The big thing for me was to get the conversation started and start working on the stock because it’s not, you know, let’s build one that happens overnight. I know it takes a while so I’m fine. As long as we’re making progress. As long we’re moving toward that goal,” Waters said.Boylan said the project will likely cost about $1 billion.
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