Jaguars to host Community Huddles on stadium plans in Nassau and St. Johns counties this week

The Jacksonville Jaguars continue their series of community “huddles” in neighboring counties this week to continue presenting their vision for an answering questions about planned stadium renovations.

Team representatives began with a Monday lunchtime huddle at at the Thrasher-Horne Center in Orange Park. The next huddle is set for 5:30 p.m. Monday at the Renaissance World Golf Village on South Legacy Trail in St. Augustine. Then team officials gather at 6:15 p.m. on Friday at Yulee High School on Miner Road.

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The Jaguars and Jacksonville officials began working on plans for renovations at EverBank Stadium in mid-2020, starting with an engineering assessment of the current facility. The Jaguars chose GHOK’s Sports + Recreation as the project architect.

Those plans were unveiled in June at 14 Stadium of the Future Community Huddles throughout Duval County, where team President Mark Lamping pitched an enclosed stadium that would cost between $1.3 billion and $1.4 billion. It would seat 62,000 fans for NFL games and 71,500 for college football games.

Negotiations on the new stadium are set to begin soon, and the team is asking to split the cost to renovate EverBank Stadium with the city. The Jacksonville City Council has hired its own representative for stadium negotiations, voting last month to contract with Michael Huyghue of Michael Huyghue & Associates LLC, a sports and entertainment consulting firm based in Jacksonville.