{"id":65753,"date":"2025-09-08T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=65753"},"modified":"2025-09-08T11:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T18:42:36","slug":"shocker-surf-park-development-in-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=65753","title":{"rendered":"Shocker: Surf Park Development in Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65754\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jvillesurfpark.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jvillesurfpark.png 450w, https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/jvillesurfpark-200x119.png 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The developers of a proposed surfpark in Jacksonville, Florida have discovered that new estimates on the park&#8217;s construction costs may mean no surf park, according to a story in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2025\/sep\/05\/surf-park-developer-says-project-is-in-jeopardy-city-seeking-incentives\/\"><em><strong>Jacksonville Daily Record<\/strong><\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"h837986-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city is seeking to offer a $4.6 million incentive for the proposed <strong>Jacksonville Surf Park<\/strong> after its developer, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aventuur.com\"><strong>Aventuur Inc<\/strong><\/a>., said new cost estimates have put the overall project in jeopardy. . . . The 5.5-acre park, part of a larger, 45-acre space, is planned in the eTown development in South Jacksonville. It has an estimated capital investment of $100 million.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So nice when City government chip in on private businesses isn&#8217;t it? See, socialism works for big business all the time. Would love to get a $5 million incentive from anyone at this point. Sidenote, if you have an example of a sustainable, profitable, stand alone wave pool built <em>anywhere<\/em>, please let us know.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2025\/sep\/05\/surf-park-developer-says-project-is-in-jeopardy-city-seeking-incentives\/\">Jacksonville Daily Record<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The developers of a proposed surfpark in Jacksonville, Florida have discovered that new estimates on the park&#8217;s construction costs may mean no surf park, according to a story in the Jacksonville Daily Record. The city is seeking to offer a $4.6 million incentive for the proposed Jacksonville Surf Park after its developer, Aventuur Inc., said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65760,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65753\/revisions\/65760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}