Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry revealed what is to come for his city's downtown Saturday on 'One Nation with Brian Kilmeade.'
There's a lot of unfulfilled potential downtown. When I got into office in 2015, I inherited $2 billion in pension debt that had been ignored. It was crippling our budget. There was no money to spend on downtown or infrastructure around the city. I put forth the plan [to] reform that. We solved that problem, and we've been doing things downtown to prepare it for development.
Another condo that collapsed over a decade ago that people left on the waterfront that I was able to finally take down. These are things that are preparing for major development on a riverfront. So we now have the funds to do it. We've just partnered with the [Jacksonville Jaguars] and with Shahid Khan on a sports performance complex.
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