Avondale resident pushes back against Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission
It’s tough to make changes to buildings in a historic neighborhood, as Avondale resident Virginia Harris well knows. In November 2017, Harris was turned down by the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission (JHPC) when she submitted an application for a Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) to build a two-story addition onto her 1909 one-story home on the […]
Residents threaten lawsuit unless drainage issue fixed
After suffering standing water and soggy grass in their backyards for nearly a year, two Madrid Avenue residents are taking legal action against the developer of San Jose Estates. On January 26, David and Lynne Robison joined their next-door neighbor Kevin Conner in hiring a lawyer to notify San Jose Estates LLC, the developer of […]
New doggy daycare to open before summers ‘dog days’ arrive
Amended Feb. 8, 2018 After housing a professional adult-attended daycare center 12 years ago, a one-story concrete building at 1075 Hendricks Ave. was proposed to be razed in 2009. Instead, for the next nine years the building languished. Now it will see new life as a daycare center for “fur babies.” The Hendricks Avenue property, […]
Locally-produced film premieres, nears movie deal
Less than 24 hours after a private showing of the latest Duane A. Sikes Productions short film, “Ortega River Rats,” Sikes received an offer for feature film distribution from a film distributor. The premiere of the “concept” film was held Jan. 21 at the Sun-Ray Cinema for a standing-room-only crowd of cast, crew and supporters. […]
Doggy daycare and ‘people’ pub proposed for Brooklyn area
Dog parks are great places to let your pooch romp with other four-legged friends, but what do you do in the meantime? Kanine Social thinks it may have a unique answer. Owners Daniel Moffatt and Dustin Fries plan to repurpose nearly 12,000 square feet of an existing 15,434-square-foot warehouse at 580 College Street for a […]
Former filling station to house Nashville barbecue franchise
First Coast Energy, which owns and operates Daily’s convenience stores, recently demolished a long-defunct station at 5344 Ortega Blvd. to make way for a business of a different kind. Instead of putting in a Daily’s, the company will lease the property to Ortega residents Virginia and Todd Ogletree, who will own the first Jacksonville franchise […]
More restaurants planned for Brooklyn area
City of Jacksonville property, known as the Jug Handle, in Brooklyn is being considered for commercial/retail development. The Jug Handle is used as a storm water retention basin and includes a turnoff for motorists exiting the Acosta Bridge and desiring to enter the Florida Times-Union property across Riverside Avenue. In July 2017, the Downtown Investment […]
I-95 Southbound Traffic Shift begins Jan. 13 on Overland Bridge
Southbound Interstate 95 traffic will shift into a new configuration just south of the San Marco Boulevard exit Saturday, January 13 beginning at 8 p.m., weather and schedule permitting. Motorists should be advised this is a major traffic shift and will alter the way they exit onto the Atlantic Boulevard and U.S. 1 (Philips Highway) […]
