{"id":838547,"date":"2026-03-28T06:39:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/838547\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:39:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:39:29","slug":"downtown-jacksonville-is-under-construction-and-this-time-its-not-just-a-blueprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/838547\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Jacksonville is under construction\u2014and this time it\u2019s not just a blueprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 If you\u2019re coming to Downtown Jacksonville, you will likely notice all the construction, which is totally revamping the stadium district.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The new Jaguars executive office buildings, called One Tower Court, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/25\/jaguars-open-75k-square-foot-business-office-at-one-tower-court-in-downtown-jacksonville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/25\/jaguars-open-75k-square-foot-business-office-at-one-tower-court-in-downtown-jacksonville\/\">just opened this week<\/a>, the first multi-story office building constructed downtown in several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/25\/jaguars-open-75k-square-foot-business-office-at-one-tower-court-in-downtown-jacksonville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/25\/jaguars-open-75k-square-foot-business-office-at-one-tower-court-in-downtown-jacksonville\/\">Jaguars open 75K-square-foot business office at One Tower Court in downtown Jacksonville<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Mayor Donna Deegan said the progress shows that Jacksonville has finally broken its stereotype of being a city of renderings that never happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cAll you have to do is look around and see all the cranes in the air. We are no longer a city of renderings. We are on our way,\u201d Deegan said at the One Tower Court grand opening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Jaguars President Mark Lamping said the key to turning that corner has been the people who believe in the projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cBehind all these stories, there\u2019s someone who really believes in the cause. In this case, it\u2019s the Khan family who has chosen to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Downtown Jacksonville when not everyone had that same level of belief,\u201d Lamping said of the Jaguars\u2019 owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The Stadium of the Future is still in the works, but the Jags pointed out that they needed to finish construction on One Tower Court before they could rebuild the stadium, so all the team\u2019s employees would have somewhere to go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Just blocks north of the stadium district, the historic Eastside neighborhood will also benefit from all the changes Downtown through the Community Benefits Agreement that was part of the Jaguars\u2019 stadium deal.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 If you\u2019re coming to Downtown Jacksonville, you will likely notice all the construction, which is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":838548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[11963,3456,56882,32136,105439,7,212,125,2401,213,50281,9547,6,115457,4239,26374,52521],"class_list":["post-838547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-business","tag-community","tag-donna-deegan","tag-downtown-development","tag-downtown-jacksonville","tag-football","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-jacksonvillejaguars","tag-jaguars","tag-mark-lamping","tag-money","tag-nfl","tag-one-tower-court","tag-politics","tag-shad-khan","tag-stadium-of-the-future"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116305432746353814","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/838548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}