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Merrill Stevens Shipyards:

Once one of the largest shipyards in the city and a major shipyard on the east coast. In the 1980s and mid-90s the Shipyards were still repairing massive oil tankers and large yachts. Now the company's only operations are yacht repair on the Miami River in Miami.







Today:


From Metrojacksonville.com


Many of these large buildings occupying prime riverfront land are civic buildings - the jail, a police station, a courthouse and the City Hall Annex. All replaced a thriving waterfront in the 60s-90s.


Some renderings of one of the several billion dollar plans for the site in the last decade that didn't pan out, but still ended up costing the city tens of millions and lining a few pockets:








Maxwell still operates its largest plant nearby, and it could be a great tourist stop and a boon to the area, but Maxwell's fortress is not very inviting...




A little bit what the area looks like now - this railing is part of a rail spur that once served the area (the UC building is derelict):