Redevelopment of the Duval County Courthouse Plaza

​We invite you to join the conversation as we begin the preliminary plans for the redevelopment of the Duval County Courthouse Plaza by taking the survey at the bottom of the page, or attending one of the scheduled community engagement meetings.
The Duval County Courthouse Plaza project strives to transform the three acre lawn into a civic and artistic space for downtown Jacksonville.  In the winter & spring of 2020, a stakeholder group will analyze the opportunities and costs of improvements to develop a scope of work for a future artist-led team.  Through the City's Art in Public Places Committee, a team will be commissioned to imagine the plaza as public artwork in the fall of 2020 with construction completed in 2022
The Duval County Courthouse Plaza is a project of the City of Jacksonville's Art in Public Places (APP) program that is managed by the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville.  The $619,000 in art funding results from the City’s APP Ordinance that required 0.75% of the original Courthouse construction budget be set aside for public art.  The Cultural Council is the local art agency supporting arts organizations and artists in Duval County for the benefit of NE Florida.

June 2, 2020 Virtual Stakeholder Meeting

April 21 Stakeholders Preference Summary

Due to the cancellation of all public meetings during COVID19 stay-at-home regulations, the Cultural Council prepared a survey for the Stakeholders in lieu of the scheduled April 1, 2020 meeting. All but two members completed the survey.  The Cultural Council added few civic leaders and city staff advisors to the surveyed group.  
List of Stakeholders
Judge Tatiana Salvador
Judge Dawn K. Hudson
Allison Galloway, Cathedral Arts Project
Dr. Diana Greene, Duval Public Schools
Maria Hane, MOSH
Holly Keris, Cummer Museum
Caitlín Doherty, MOCA Jacksonville
Preston Haskell, Haskell Company
Lori Boyer, DIA
Numa Saisselin, Downtown Vision / Florida Theater
Chris Flagg, Landscape Architect
Aleizha Batson, JTA
David Goldberg, JEA
Charles Moreland, Office of the Mayor
Bill Joyce, Jacksonville Public Works
Tim Snyder, Jacksonville University

Send Comments and Ideas to PublicArtJax@CulturalCouncil.org