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A new Costco, restaurants, apartments and a bank are coming to the former site of a long-gone stadium built for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

A joint venture between Northwood Ravin and Fuqua Development will transform an untapped site on Boulevard into 273 apartments.

It's the latest big idea for Downtown's tourism hub, which is now poised to see well over 1 million square feet of new retail space across multiple projects.

The opening this month of three new apartment buildings will add about 1,300 residents to downtown Jacksonville and the ongoing construction of other apartments, townhomes and condos would enable the city to finally hit its long-time goal of 10,000 downtown residents in 2026.

More than a dozen projects are under construction or recently completed in Downtown Jacksonville. Here’s a look at where some of them stand.

More than five years after the family that owns The Varsity announced it would sell the property for redevelopment, and almost three years after the landmark restaurant closed, plans have been filed with Athens-Clarke County. And yes, the magnolias will be saved.

The plans call for two buildings-one at the corner of West Broad and Chase streets featuring a grocery store on the second floor with parking on the main level underneath, and a second on the Milledge Avenue side with retail and restaurant space on the ground floor and residential units above, wrapped around a second parking structure. Bruce Lonnee, assistant director of the ACC Planning Department, was quick to note that the plans include a protective fence around the 100-plus-year-old magnolia trees along Milledge Avenue.

A new preliminary development plan for a wooded piece of property on Newberry Road less than a mile west of Interstate 75 has been submitted to Alachua County.

The Newberry Village Traditional Neighborhood Development has been proposed on the north side of Newberry Road directly east of Fort Clarke Boulevard and would have direct access to the Newberry Square shopping area via Northwest 76th Boulevard.

A project that would bring apartments and a grocery store to an undeveloped area just north of Downtown Atlanta has inched closer to reality

Rumors are flying about major chains coming to the area south of Lexington and at least one of them is true.

Wawa, the convenience store station that’s so much more than gas, is planning on building a location at 3013 Lexington Rd. in Nicholasville, also known as U.S. 27. At an April 24 meeting, the planning commission approved plans for a Wawa convenience store at the corner of Lexington Road and Vince Road, near Catnip Hill Road and just down the road from the popular Brannon Crossing shopping center.

Luxury apartments, a "lifestyle grocery," as well as buildings for restaurants and retail shops are beginning to sprout at One Riverside - an estimated $182 million mixed-use development on the Northbank of the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville.