The old Jacksonville firehouse on Riverside Avenue that sent so many firefighters on life-saving missions is facing a do-or-die situation of its own.
The Downtown Investment Authority Board approved a resolution Wednesday that would allow 30 days for anyone interested in acquiring Fire Station No. 5 to make offers for it, provided they are willing to move it to another location and preserve it.
If the city does not get a viable offer in that time frame, it will proceed with demolishing the fire station.
“It’s not that they have to come in an offer us a million dollars for the building before we give it to them,” Boyer said after the DIA board meeting. “They can come and say, ‘We’ll take it, we have this great idea for how to use it, this is what it will cost us to renovate it and we have money to do that, but you (the city) have to help pay to move it.’”