J Magazine Winter 2017
The magazine of the rebirth of Jacksonville's downtown
The magazine of the rebirth of Jacksonville's downtown
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS<br />
By Roger Brown<br />
Preston Haskell, with his Rafe Affleck water sculpture, founded the Haskell Company in 1965.<br />
Downtown landscape dotted<br />
with work from Haskell Co.<br />
alk around Downtown Jacksonville, and there is an<br />
W<br />
enormous footprint within its boundaries that you may<br />
never even notice.<br />
But it’s there.<br />
It’s the footprint of the Haskell Company, the Jacksonville-based<br />
giant that is not only one of the world’s top integrated<br />
design, engineering and construction firms, it’s also arguably the<br />
company that has shaped Downtown’s horizon and landscape<br />
more than any other over the past five decades:<br />
EverBank Field<br />
The breathtaking Winston Family YMCA<br />
The corporate headquarters of the St. Joe Co.<br />
The Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center<br />
The Baptist Heart Hospital<br />
Wolfson Children’s Hospital.<br />
The headquarters of Fidelity National Financial.<br />
The Southbank Riverwalk.<br />
The JEA South Shores Force Main River Crossing.<br />
All these Downtown facilities — and many, many more — were<br />
constructed or designed or just plain made better and more<br />
eye-catching than before by the hand of the Haskell Co.<br />
But just as much as its immense physical investment, the Has-<br />
BOB SELF<br />
94 J MAGAZINE | WINTER <strong>2017</strong>-18
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