The 16,600 square foot, multi-building industrial facility was built in 1952. The proposed brewery will be located at 2385 Corbett St, and will join a 1.6 acre, burgeoning community of creatives that already operate on site. In addition, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad contributed $50,000 for a new concrete railroad bridge crossing the new channel and McCoys Creek Boulevard.Ī look at the site plan for the proposed Tabula Rasa Brewing. Newly completed McCoys Creek bulkhead and Riverside Avenue culvert in 1930.īy the time the McCoys Creek Improvement Project was completed on September 11, 1930, $610,000 had been spent by the City of Jacksonville to bulkhead the creek, construct seven bridges, and park. Johns River waterfront, an 800’ long concrete culvert was constructed to reroute the channelized creek under the Jacksonville Traction Company car barn and the Atlantic Coast Line Railway’s terminal. Furthermore, near the heavily developed St. Known as McCoys Park, the green space also included the construction of the two-mile McCoys Creek Boulevard. In addition, 29 acres of wetlands and former creek bed were filled to become a two-mile linear public park. As a part of the project, new stayed-girder and reinforced concrete bridges at Edison, Fitzerald, King, Leland, Myrtle, and Stockton Streets replaced againg 19th century wood-frame bridges over the mendering creek. The Walter J Bryson Company would receive $415,000 from the City of Jacksonville to create a 5 ft deep and 36 ft wide shipping channel for sport boating and barges to ship products and serve industrial users in the area. Craig spearheaded the McCoys Creek Improvement project in 1928. That all changed in 1927 when city engineer Joseph E. Once described as the “biggest swamp in any city the size of Jacksonville in the world.”, McCoys Creek was known as a wild, meandering waterway with associated swamps that caused routine flooding in the rapidly growing city. Ryan Peterson has submitted plans to open Tabula Rasa Brewing along the shoreline of McCoys Creek, joining Engine 15 Brewing in the resurgent Rail Yard District.