Coffee shop’s popularity creates headaches for nearby residents
San Marco Place is a little street directly behind Southside Baptist Church with about a dozen houses. A street you pass without noticing it unless you’re looking for a cut-through from Hendricks Avenue and Atlantic Boulevard – or a place to park. But residents say traffic jams caused by on-street parking have become a problem, […]
Hendricks residents’ parking concerns fall on deaf ears at FDOT
Although it may be too late, Hendricks Avenue residents who live in the half-mile residential stretch between Dunsford Road and San Marco Boulevard are praying the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will yet find a compromise that will protect the on-street parking in front of their homes, which is slated to be eliminated when State […]
Conflict resolution in community garden an ongoing debate
Lock it up or leave it open – that’s the issue facing the Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP) board of directors as they grapple with complaints of theft from the community garden at the corner of Park Street and Azalea Terrace. The garden, which opened in April 2016 under a public-private partnership between RAP and the […]
Waterways Commission gives Fishweir Creek dredging project ‘green light’
The long-awaited dredging of Big Fishweir Creek has inched forward with the approval by the City of Jacksonville Waterways Commission of an ordinance to authorize a partnership between the City and the Army Corps of Engineers. Under the partnership, the city would fund 35 percent of the $6.5 million project that would be undertaken by […]
RiverVue garage sparks concerns; developer adhering to plan
After the two-story parking garage went up at RiverVue, the new apartment complex on St. Johns Avenue at Fishweir Creek, Avondale residents began “seeing red” or, more accurately, a lot of gray. When Chance Partners LLC’s planned unit development (PUD) was initially submitted two years ago, the only barrier indicated for a narrow area between […]
City brings in consultant to address San Marco Square parking
San Marco merchants stress about not having enough parking spaces for their customers. Nearby residents complain about the people who park in front of their houses because they can’t find spaces in San Marco Square. And everyone is worried about the impact new development — coming in the not-so-distant future — will have on merchants […]
Chance Partners begins construction for new San Marco housing
The long-awaited construction on the former Jackson Square property – now christened San Marco Promenade – begins this month and may soon be getting a new neighbor. San Marco Promenade will have 284 apartments in two four-story buildings fronted by a 10,000-square-foot commercial building along Philips Highway. The apartments will include one-, two- and three-bedroom […]
Southbank developers still working toward property purchase
Perhaps it was too much financial wrangling, a proposed appointment of a special City Council oversight committee, taxpayers voicing reluctance to “hold the note,” or a less than enthusiastic approval by the Downtown Investment Authority (DIA) that caused Elements Jacksonville to back out of their proposed plan to involve the City of Jacksonville in the […]
