Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry: "There's a lot of unfulfilled potential downtown. When I got into office in 2015, I inherited $2 billion in pension debt that had been ignored.It was crippling our budget. There was no money to spend on downtown or infrastructure around the city. I put forth a plan where reformed that. br We solved that problem and we've been doing things downtown to prepare it for development. There were old buildings that had to be knocked down, that had been neglected and left behind. The Jacksonville Landing, which was not of good use anymore.br br Another condo that collapsed over a decade ago that people left on the waterfront that I was able to finally take down. These are things that are preparing for major development on our riverfront.