10 Years Later: Jax After Super Bowl XXXIX

During Super Bowl week, over 100,000 visitors filled downtown's streets with much fanfare. Despite the circus packing up and immediately leaving town after the game, community sentiment was that the momentum of successfully hosting this major event would quickly lead to great things and change the city's image from being backwater to a place of progress.

A decade later, many of the dreams and hopes in 2005 remain outside of our reach in 2015.

We're still talking downtown redevelopment game and have turned to new proposals like SouthEast Group's Laura Trio, Preston Haskell's Healthy Town and Shad Khan's interest in the Shipyards as our new "one-trick-ponies" to deliver the lasting vibrancy that Super Bowl XXXIX was supposed to.

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While we continue to wait for our downtown knight in shining armor, here's a few major developments that have come to fruition since the city's hosting of Super Bowl XXXIX.

Alfred I. DuPont Trust Headquarters


Brooklyn Station



The Carling

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