Gainesville - Florida - 4K Downtown Drive
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2021
- Weekday afternoon drive in and around Gainesville, FL. Also includes a quick drive through the University of Florida Campus.
Filmed: February 2021
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From Wikipedia:
Gainesville is the county seat of, and the largest city in, Alachua County, Florida, and is both the principal city of the Gainesville, Florida, metropolitan statistical area and the largest city in North Central Florida. In 2019 the US Census Bureau estimated Gainesville's population at 133,997, a 7.6% increase from 2010, and the metropolitan statistical area's population at 288,212.
Gainesville is home to the University of Florida, the fifth-largest public university campus by enrollment in the United States.
Since the 1990s, suburban sprawl has been a concern for a majority of the city commissioners. The "New Urbanization" plan to gentrify the area between historic Downtown and the University of Florida may slow the growth of suburban sectors and spark a migration toward upper-level apartments in the inner city. The area immediately north of the university is also seeing active redevelopment. Many gentrification plans rely on tax incentives that have sparked controversy and are sometimes unsuccessful. University Corners, which would not have been proposed without a $98 million tax incentive program by the city, was to be "a crowning jewel of the city's redevelopment efforts", 450 condos and hotel units and 98,000 square feet (9,100 m2) of retail space in eight stories covering three city blocks, on 3.4 acres (1.4 ha) purchased for $15.5 million. 19 thriving businesses were demolished in April 2007,[38] but in May 2008 deposit checks were refunded to about 105 people who reserved units,[39] and in July 2008 developers spent "$120,000 to beautify the site, so we won't have this ugly green fence."
Gainesville's east side houses the majority of the city's African-American community, while the west side consists of the mainly student and white resident population. West of the city limits are large-scale planned communities, most notably Haile Plantation, which was built on the site of its eponymous former plantation.
The destruction of the city's landmark Victorian courthouse in the 1960s, which some considered unnecessary, brought the idea of historic preservation to the community's attention. The bland county building that replaced the grand courthouse became known to some locals as the "air conditioner". Additional destruction of other historic buildings in the downtown followed. Only a small handful of older buildings are left, like the Hippodrome State Theatre, at one time a federal building. Revitalization of the city's core has picked up, and many parking lots and underutilized buildings are being replaced with infill development and near-campus housing that blend in with existing historic structures. There is a proposal to rebuild a replica of the old courthouse on a parking lot one block from the original location.
Helping in this effort are the number of areas and buildings added to the National Register of Historic Places. Dozens of examples of restored Victorian and Queen Anne style residences constructed in the city's agricultural heyday of the 1880s and 1890s can be found in the following districts:
Northeast Gainesville Residential District
Southeast Gainesville Residential District
Pleasant Street Historic District
Additionally, the University of Florida Campus Historic District, consisting of 11 buildings and 14 contributing properties, lies within the city's boundaries. Most of the buildings in the Campus Historic District are constructed in variations of Collegiate Gothic architecture, which returned to prominence in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Historic structures on the Register in and around downtown are:
Bailey Plantation House (1854)
Colson House (1905)
Matheson House (1867)
Thomas Hotel (1910)
The Old Post Office (now the Hippodrome State Theatre) (1911)
Masonic Temple (1908)
Seagle Building (1926), downtown Gainesville's tallest building.
Baird Hardware Company Warehouse (1890)
Cox Furniture Store (1875)
Cox Furniture Warehouse (c. 1890)
Epworth Hall (1884)
Old Gainesville Depot (1907)
Mary Phifer McKenzie House (1895)
Star Garage (1902)
A. Quinn Jones House
Welcome to Gainesville!
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Gainesville Florida is a nice college town. I have lived around this area for almost 50 years. Great town to raise children. Lots of parks and nice museums. You are very close to gorgeous fresh water springs for swimming and rivers for canoeing. Mild winters but hot and humid summers. Gainesville was called the Tree City because there are trees everywhere. There is just enough mixture of progressiveness due to the international community around the University of Florida and old southern charm from the locals who have remained here.
Exactly.
nothing to do in gainesville besides eat at expensive mediocre restaurants
@@zachmorrissey8505 To each his own.
Thank you, I enjoyed that trip and recognized a lot. Didn't live there but worked at Shands. It;s been 7 years almost since we came back up north. Don't miss the heat!!
You’re welcome
I live here! It's a small university city that's growing rapidly. Tons of new business and homes are popping up in the area.
Agreed. But not on the East side of town because the city has it classified (not sure that is the correct term) for agriculture and residential. Past Waldo Rd, it is near impossible for new business to go there and help the East side of Gainesville grow and thrive like the West side of Gainesville. And that is by design.
That's what they want you to think. SLOWLY the gentrification process is sweeping across this way.
@@Oudia777 I think you will find that a lot of East sides of towns are designed that way.
@@Oudia777 I live on the west side and then be honest I despise its sprawling design. It's not safe for bikers and pedestrians.
Great description!! And video!! 👍🏼
I lived in my car for 3 months last year traveling the south. I slept in the Gainsville Cracker barrel parking lot dozens of nights. It was a wonderful city and I hope to one day have property there.
Greetings from Kolkata India ! I was a grad student at UF from 2000 to 2006. The video brought back lot of good memories. Thanks a lot !
Another good video! You are hitting all of the spots we have planned! Thanks for sharing.
You bet!
Hey. I live here 😂
Me too
Same same.
I live here but I'm on vacation in North Carolina right now!
Same. Place blows.
Me too
One of the best places to visit it calls "Depot park" I am in love of Gainesville, my future retirement place.
My city, money pit college town catering to the students
Isn't that the truth.
i worked there for a couple of months i found what looked to me to be a toxic wast dump by an air port
Money pit in what sense?
@@bjlove259 Now UF is a land-grabbing destroyer of this city's former charm. Gainesville has ruined itself in the past ten years with criminal-level dysfunctional leadership. They actually tried to vote themselves a doubled salary recently. Gainesville today is a leftover of it's former self and charm.
No joke.
UF has bought and ruined every property that it touches tax-free.
And students nowadays are morons in comparison to their parents' generation. No morals or decency. Everyone is a social media addict, manners mean nothing and they could care less about themselves, doped-up playing video games all day. Basically a town of future losers with no marketable skills and usable knowledge.
Property taxes are skyrocketing, so look before you buy. Same for gas prices, and a corrupt GRU monopoly power company. Only one main predator cable company set to rip you off for +$150/month.
Don't say that you weren't warned... and there are bums at nearly every common intersection. Some violent, some professional thieves. Many live in the woods and the cops do nothing... have fun!
Ask around, Gainesville's best days are behind it, you missed out.
Just moved here from NH. No friends yet but the weather and scenery are great. I love it so much
I'm waiting to see the video of Gainesville, Georgia!
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Lived here as a child. My Mom passed away in this town. My Father us to inverness fl move and never brought us back.
Wow! You are everywhere
Thanks for the video mike hey after Florida what state will u be driving through next
Back to NC but likely through Alabama and part of Tennessee on the way. Maybe Kentucky as well but we'll see how timing of everything works out.
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Nice video drive of Gainesville, Florida. In next segment upload video archive driving along State Road 836 Dolphin Expressway in Northwest Miami heading eastbound onto interstate i-95 north bound on ramp.
Where’s the speed bumps on west university and the panhandlers on intersection of 13th and west university?
On NW 2nd st on the right, that where I live, thx for video! Maybe you could make a video in Massachusetts! 🤗✌️
You're welcome. Videos on the northeast possibly coming later this year.
@@MileageMikeTravels thx 😊
I live here, nice video, and well done.
Thank you!
You’re welcome
Nice 🙂
I lived in Gainesville in the 70's and none of that was there! Wow! I would not recognize it today.
Exactly... all downhill.
I use to years ago. Is the greyhound still downtown
I'm gonna live there in the next year
Born and raised here😊
Thanks Mike. I always drove thru Gainesville, Fla on the way to my Mom's house in Palatka. I even met a 1 arm man making pizza in Gainesville. Something you just don't see. Much like a video of Palatka on the St.Johns river.
I actually might go through that time on my way out of Florida. You're right I don't see many decent videos of it. We'll see how my timing works out.
Stop lying about a one arm man here making pizza with your lying ass I’m from here stop lying on my city
scratch that, this is tom ettys home town,i recognize university ave,mentioned in his song, mystic eyes, jacksonvilles lynard skynards home town, 61 yr old rain fart, 😅😊
I use to live down the street from there, I use to walk to that Winn Dixie and use to take the bus downtown 😂 dang that’s crazy
They built a new Winn Dixie off NW 13th
@@papapeeps85 didn’t know that, I always ride down 13th to go to work
@@drock__isfree8026 yeah, I prefer the one off Main St. tho. Although they just changed the layout of everything.
The Swamp Restaurant is gone since the COVID-19 pandemic. Not to mention Leonardo's Pizza, which had both locations on West University Avenue were gone, too. This is really sad!
Big lous is gone too
The Swamp was a local landmark and my job, such a shame to see it go and replaced with more godawful luxury student condos
@@stentor9640 Downtown Gainesville is really dying! They destroy The Swamp to be replaced with those terrible luxury student apartments in order to make money. We also missed Burrito Brothers as well!
@@samoyed81966 As a UF Grad who has also gone to other college towns recently to scope out schools for my kids, I do lament that now there seems to be a "sameness" to all the college towns now.
@@stentor9640 It's 2024 and Gainesville has been destroyed.
Check out University Ave. on Google maps. It looks like a South Florida Yankee engineer rebuilt everything in their horrid style and smeared buildings all down the street. Ruined permanently.
BTW, Leonardo's By-the-Slice was crushed by UF and turned into apartments for their lemmings. Plenty of family-owned unique businesses gone, too.
You really should look it up on Google.
Saludos de Perú
It looks more like South Georgia than Florida, but lovely, nonetheless.
It’s exactly like that! The people too are similar to Georgia than Floridians. It’s very northern Florida close to Georgia so that explains it
Havent you Film Miami Florida?
Not yet. Saving the biggest city for last. LOTS to film in Miami. It’s coming.
It's a nice drive around, but a little narration would be helpful or at least written comments as you pass important locations or fun to know spots.
You caught it on a good day 🤣🤣
Lol. What's it like on a bad day?
@@MileageMikeTravels bumper to bumper spend 15mins at 1 intersection Lol specially on university
I love the view in gainesville. But I hate paying my federal reserve notes too a bunch of rich people. So I left, and I will never return. I loved the city but hated the people, but I love the homeless. Blissful be them that dwell in tents.
Falafel King!
I'm on the Cambridge The 400 Apartments Gainesville Florida waiting list
The highest property tax dollars in the state !!! Blue county in a sea of red counties !!!
Hello Mike! Thank you very much for the video and all the information in it. I hope to add value to it by offering our services as a renovation and painting contractor for both residential and commercial properties. A family-owned business that can be trusted to do a great job, in a great time spam, and at a great price. Is that something you could have a use for?
6:22 if you turned right you would pass my middle school
I did not think palm trees could grow that far north but there they are.
Good ol Gainesville. Home of the tent homeless communities lol
That's not funny at all. The homeless are the blissful one's. They are not caught up in the mundane bullshit. We are the prisoners not them. Like a homeless guy told me once in gainesville, the minute you start seeing less and lesser homeless, then you need to start worrying. And I believe that 100 percent.
Where? I don't see any. Not like down town LA.
@@2seek4truth Yeah, I've been out to Seattle and Portland. Gainesville has a few tents here and there, but NOTHING like cities out west. And we're friendly to the homeless here, as far as I know. It's really NOT "tent city" here.
I have been in Gainesville few times and there is probably less homeless than in West Palm Beach.You go West Palm Beach and you will see them in must of the intersections.
@ min. 4:55, Citgo gas $2.59. Today over $5!
I was born here. 1-2-1997
Im from here but moved to houston 2012. Im coming back to fl but not ganiesville . tx is so different from fl . My whole family is still here in ganiesville. Cant come back. Nothing in this city. South fl is my next look
My father and grandfather from here. I always thought this place was country as shit lol
I live here and there is nothing special about it
I've moved back to Gainesville for the third time in my life four years ago. I've lived all over the country, north, south, east, and west, but I keep coming back here. I think Gainesville is a unique town, and has lots of desirable qualities. Perhaps you have not lived other places to see the contrast.
Yes
@@lisathuban8969 yes I have been other places
@@pitbulllife4198 Difference of preference, then.
Not really I don't hate Gainesville the taxes was killing me but I moved to lake butler and it's about 30 minutes away I still go to Gainesville all the time it's not to bad
Old drive through there are a bunch of tents everywhere on main Street now. Homless and bums fighting in the streets, needles and drug bags laying on the ground. Where you seen the fire truck come out of is overun with tents and smells like piss and shit.
Oof, I now know the places to avoid.
Appreciated!
Are we really going the way of Commiefornia? Cause what you just described, it seems that way. It has been like 3 years since I was by main street.
There is only one corner on Main street where there are homeless. Just across from the St. Francis shelter. It is nothing like down town LA or Venice Beach California. Small problem here.
I drove through yesterday. Didn't see any of that. You can see the totally finished CADE museum, so this video was taken in the past two years.
This was a couple weeks ago.
@@Ometecuhtli13thGate The biggest economy in the nation? I hope we go their way.
One of the worst places in florida for all those things you love like traffic ,overcrowding,low paying jobs, the list is endless 2thumbs down to this town mike
Don’t talk about my city we got low crimes and all here and besides why would our wages would be high when cost of living is low and before I became a truck driver I was making $21.25 an hour at Walmart as the cleaning lady and $25.00 as a school crossing guard my Mortage is $438.14 so who suffering over here
@@sexyblack1416 : )
Definitely better than Orlando and Jacksonville. Interesting people, good music scene and most importantly, somewhat walkable and bikeable.
Much to Liberal for me. President Donald J Trump for ever. From Lake City Florida!!!
Yeah keep your a** in Lake Shity. Don't need you trump people here.
I love Trump.
I live in Gainesville. Voted for him both times in 2016, and the 2020 election. I will vote for him in 2024. 💪🐸👍👏💯
@@Ometecuhtli13thGate Thank you so very much for Voting for President Donald J Trump ❤ Me to!!!
Ganiesville is liberal? Wow didmt know that
Thats good