Committee approves restroom mural call for Pier Parking Lot; $18,000 budget and simplified rubric to guide selection

Jacksonville Beach — The committee approved staff’s request to issue a call to artists for an exterior mural on the pier parking-lot restroom building, asking staff to post the call promptly and to return with applicant materials for the committee’s June review.

Staff described the restroom structure as a one-story building with roughly 900 square feet of wall area (doors excluded) and recommended a project budget of about $18,000 to cover design and execution consistent with previous mural work. "We would like to do is issue a call to artists, to paint the entire structure, all 4 walls. And it's approximately about 900 square feet, all 4 walls, and to maintain consistent with all of our other murals, that would be about $18,000," the staff member said.

Why it matters

The committee and staff said the pier parking lot project is part of a broader downtown improvement effort that includes Pier Parking Lot Phase 1…