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re: Atlanta possibly bidding for 2024 Olympics?
Posted on 2/20/13 at 11:42 pm to saintsfan22
Posted on 2/20/13 at 11:42 pm to saintsfan22
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Isn't J-ville huge, land-wise?
Yea, land wise I think its the biggest in the US. That being said, I doubt it's got the hotel space needed and it is far far far away from having the venues. I think they have a basketball arena, a triple A baseball park, and the dump where the Jags play.
Would be a serious fricking investment by the city/state to build up that area.
Plus no one in Jacksonville goes down town really, everyone lives at the beach. So i'm not sure what they would do with public transit and olympic village.
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Posted on 2/21/13 at 7:15 am to blowmeauburn
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Yea, land wise I think its the biggest in the US. That being said, I doubt it's got the hotel space needed and it is far far far away from having the venues. I think they have a basketball arena, a triple A baseball park, and the dump where the Jags play.
Would be a serious fricking investment by the city/state to build up that area.
Plus no one in Jacksonville goes down town really, everyone lives at the beach. So i'm not sure what they would do with public transit and olympic village.
Landwise Jacksonville controls most, if not all of Duval County, so you would have a lot of real estate to build facilities. The infrastructure isn't there though - mass transit is limited to buses, and the hotel space is tiny. When they hosted the Super Bowl, they ended up bringing cruise ships in nd docking them along the St. Johns to use as extra rooms. Your hotels are clustered either right around the Riverwalk area, out towards Mayport and the Navy base, or out at the beaches.
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