Florida Blue supports Y’s Safety Around Water program with grant
YMCA of Florida’s First Coast was one of four statewide YMCA associations to receive a grant which will support the critical need of swim safety and drown prevention. Jacksonville-based Florida Blue donated $310,000 to provide free swim lessons and mobile aquatics programs for more than 5,000 children and families through the Y’s Safety Around Water […]
Riverside-based nonprofit to move downtown
The North Florida Land Trust, currently headquartered in a 101-year-old house on Gilmore Street, was given approval by the Downtown Investment Authority to make the historic Brewster Hospital on West Monroe Street its new headquarters. The land conservation nonprofit has run out of space in its 1,224-square-foot converted house in Riverside and seeks to lease […]
JTA cancels Riverside/Avondale Night Trolley
A year ago, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority’s board of directors agreed to give the Riverside Avondale Weekend Night Trolley a six-month extension, beginning Sept. 1, 2016. Eleven months later, the JTA has finally pulled the plug on the service which ran on the first Friday and Saturday of the month from 6 p.m. to 2 […]
Million dollar Lakeside bridge replacement out for bid
Nearly two years ago, The Resident reported the bridge over an Ortega River inlet behind the Roosevelt Square Mall would be replaced beginning in early 2016. The cost at that time was estimated to be $700,000, an appropriation approved by City Council in May 2015. During the design process, the Public Works Department discovered the […]
Spark District loses One Spark festival to Sports District
The fifth annual One Spark Innovation Festival will be held at a new venue and during a new season this year. Traditionally a Downtown Jacksonville event held in the spring in what was named the Spark District, this year the festival will be held Oct. 6-7 at the U.S. Assure Club West at EverBank Field. […]
City settlement over tree mitigation resolves issue, promotes beautification
In the welcome shade of the Treaty Oak on the Southbank, representatives of civic groups came together July 27 to celebrate the future of trees in Jacksonville and the July 25 resolution of a lawsuit against the city over the use of tree mitigation funds. The suit filed in 2015 by the Public Trust Environmental […]
Major hurdle cleared, The District moves forward with development
Construction on The District – A Life Well Lived is expected to begin after the first of the year and by then some of the brands planned for the long-awaited 30-acre development on San Marco’s riverfront might be known. The District cleared a major hurdle in June when state regulators issued an environmental “clean bill […]
Final beams placed on new Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center
Ironworkers and other construction employees of Perry-McCall Construction and DPR Construction were saluted by top officials at Baptist Health during the July 12 topping out ceremony for the new Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center. Both Hugh Greene, president and CEO of Baptist Health, and John Wilbanks, executive vice president and COO of Baptist Health, spoke […]
