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Phoenix Arts & Innovation District

Name: Phoenix Arts & Innovation District
Address: Jacksonville

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2023

Start

~2030

Completion

150

Keys

830

Units

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Details

2320 North Liberty Street, Jacksonville. 830 residences and 150 hotel keys. Broke ground Late 2023, targeting 2030. Financed with $33M in May 2026.

The story so far

Announced 2023 est.

Phase 1 complete Oct 2024Emerald Station opened as the district's first renovated building, delivering 17,000 square feet of event space, offices, meeting rooms and a catering kitchen, followed by the Liberty, Legacy and Bunker buildings across roughly 120,000 square feet of repurposed industrial space

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Phase 2 begins Mar 2026Future of Cities brought on Jacksonville-based Live Oak Contracting to build out the district's first ground-up construction, moving PHXJAX from adaptive reuse into new vertical development

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Going vertical Mar 2026Phase 2 vertical construction commencing (Live Oak Contracting partner; first vertical building = 80-unit affordable next to Bunker Building); Phase 1 adaptive reuse largely delivered

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Phase 2 launched March 2026 with GC Live Oak Contracting Mar 2026repurposing 120,000 sf of industrial buildings toward up to 830 mixed-income units.

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Phase 2 launched Mar 2026Future of Cities brought on Live Oak Contracting to convert 120,000 square feet of historic industrial buildings into creative and commercial space.

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TCO received Apr 2026Liberty Building certified: the 18,000-square-foot adaptive-reuse building received its temporary certificate of occupancy.

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Financing secured May 2026$33M affordable housing financing closed: tax credits plus a city funding package funded the district's 80-unit affordable component, its first vertical site.

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Tenant announced May 2026Naked Kitchen opened as the district's first food and beverage tenant

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Broke ground Late 2023Adaptive-reuse construction on PHXJAX's initial buildings in North Springfield began in late 2023 per Jacksonville Today.

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Expected opening 2030 est.

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About the project

The Phoenix Arts & Innovation District (PHXJAX) is a Future of Cities master-planned creative district in Jacksonville's Historic Eastside and North Springfield, transforming roughly 8.3 acres of historic industrial buildings just north of downtown into a mixed-use campus of artist studios, galleries, event space, creative offices, retail and restaurants alongside a large new residential program of affordable, workforce and market-rate apartments. Anchored by the adaptive reuse of about 120,000 square feet of legacy structures and stitched into the city's Emerald Trail greenway, the roughly half-billion-dollar district leverages Jacksonville economic-development incentives — a Recapture Enhanced Value (REV) grant and per-phase completion grants — together with 9% Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and a Local Government Area of Opportunity contribution, positioning PHXJAX as a catalyst for arts-driven neighborhood revitalization.