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Byron Caplan works on his piece, “Venus No.4,” in his fourth-floor studio space inside the Union Terminal building. Driving out East Union Street from the Downtown core, you have to be careful to take the Union exit, or you’ll find yourself on the Mathews Bridge into Arlington. So take the exit, then an unmarked left and a right to stay on what’s left of Union. There, in a gritty, grimy, obscure industrial corner of Downtown cattycorner from the rundown Old City Cemetery with all its Confederate graves, you’ll find the massive Union Terminal Warehouse, a piece of Jacksonville industrial history that could become part of its creative future. 42 J MAGAZINE | SPRING <strong>2019</strong> In 1986, the 320,000-square-foot Union Terminal building was on the market for $2.7 million. TIMES-UNION ARCHIVES
IONIA ST. JEFF DAVIS (MAP) Behind its aged steel doors, scores of pioneer artists and makers have carved out their own studios in creating the third piece of what one called the “golden triangle” of arts districts, joining CORK in Riverside and the Phoenix Arts PIPPIN ST. UNION ST. Hogans Creek District in <strong>Spring</strong>field. Now they’re waiting, with a mixture of eagerness and nervousness, as new owners envision the warehouse as the next piece in Downtown revitalization, on the eight acres alongside Hogans Creek between the Cathedral District to the west and the Sports Complex to the east, within walking distance of Veterans Memorial Arena and even TIAA Bank Field. Despite those neighbors, the warehouse is just outside the official Downtown boundary. The century-long link between the warehouse and its planned adaptive reuse into a live-workplay community of artists, crafts people and other creators is the powerful concept of authenticity. As you read in the fall issue of J, urban centers that have authentic charm and sense of place are especially effective at attracting new residents, particularly millennials. Richard Florida, in his 2012 update to his important book The Rise of the Creative Class, said people in his research defined authentic as the opposite of generic. “They equate authentic with being real, as in a place that has real buildings, real people, real history. A place that’s full of chain stores, chain restaurants and chain nightclubs is seen as inauthentic. Not only do those venues look pretty much the same everywhere, they offer the same experiences you could have anywhere.” “Places are … valued for their authenticity and uniqueness,” Florida wrote. “Authenticity comes from several aspects of a community — historic buildings, established neighborhoods, a distinctive music scene or specific cultural attributes. It especially comes from the mix — urban grit alongside freshly renovated buildings …” A piece of industrial history While many of Jacksonville’s historic buildings were lost to the Great Fire of 1901 and to 20th century “urban renewal,” the Union Terminal Warehouse is a living part of local history. Highway signs now proclaim Jacksonville as “America’s Logistics Center,” and that may have had roots in this warehouse that was innovative in its time and, N ARLINGTON EXPRESSWAY PALMETTO ST. Veterans Memorial Arena UNION TERMINAL WAREHOUSE 700 E. Union St. Baseball Grounds DUVAL ST. A Philip RANDOLPH BLVD. for decades, the city’s largest industrial building. The warehouse was built in 1912 by C.B. Gay as a supply service to the city’s 32 wholesale grocery firms, Kristen Pickrell wrote for metrojacksonville. com in 2014. Before the invention of the tractor-trailer, groceries — and, later, other goods — were shipped to this central warehouse on adjacent rail lines and via water on Hogans Creek connecting to the St. Johns River. Gay’s facility saved its tenants money by reducing their insurance, shipping and distribution costs. The building, Pickrell wrote, featured more than 3,000 feet of rail siding, two subways, a sprinkler system, freight elevators, an internal phone system and the Union Terminal Lunch Room for employees. “In its glory days,” she wrote, “the Union Terminal Warehouse Company originally offered a plethora of amenities to railway users,” including a “pool car distribution system” allowing shippers to save money through efficient sharing of cars. Today, the rail sidings are gone, and the aged building is reduced to simple warehouse space, occupied by a number of diverse small businesses — Hof’s Printing, A&B Asphalt Repair, Jacksonville Reclaimed Wood — and those eager and nervous artists. There are about 10 large art studios in the building, each subdivided for individual artists, plus individual studios for another 10 independent artists and craftspeople, making a total of “The idea of the loft would be to do what you want so long as you’re not bothering your neighbor.” DILLON BAYNES DEVELOPER Artist Nathan Eckenrode works inside his studio space on the third floor of the Union Terminal complex. Eckenrode enclosed a space inside a larger space used by a number of artists in the historic commercial building.
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