Scouts scrub down furry friends for Jax Dog Café
Despite sweltering heat, Girl Scout Troop 1080, based at Ortega United Methodist Church, gave baths to 14 dogs in two hours June 17 to raise $150 for the Jacksonville Dog Café. The seven Scouts were working toward their Bronze Award and Power of Community Badge. This was the second dog washing event the Troop held […]
Studio aims to make Jacksonville a movie-making mecca, one short film at a time
Once known at the Winter Film Capital, Jacksonville’s heyday for movie studios was largely curtailed in the 1930s for a variety of reasons but, in the end, mostly due to Hollywood’s magnetic draw. Movie making in Jacksonville then waxed and waned, with another production spurt occurring in the early 1980s after Gov. Bob Graham made […]
San Marco attorney takes first in National Senior Games
San Marco resident Don St. Denis had a lot to celebrate last month. St. Denis was among more than 870 athletes over the age of 50 from the State of Florida to compete in 19 sports in the 2017 National Senior Games in Birmingham, Alabama. St. Denis, who has been swimming since he was four […]
The Way We Were: Dr. Roy H. Schnauss
Most likely, there was never any question that Fauntleroy “Roy” Harris Schnauss would have a career in anything not related to medicine. After all, he comes from a long line of physicians. Roy’s grandfather, Frederick Wilhelm Schnauss, was a general practitioner. His father, Fauntleroy, and uncle, W.R., were also general practitioners in Jacksonville. Where Roy […]
Riverplace ‘road diet’ gains final approval
As you travel north on Hendricks Avenue and reach the intersection of Prudential Drive, you will soon be greeted by what appears to be a new neighborhood. A large new sign will proclaim “Southbank.” From your vantage point at the stop light it will look like nothing you’ve ever seen in Jacksonville’s urban core, or […]
Proposed Southbank residential tower access design opposed by neighboring businesses
All things considered, the road from initial presentation to development approval for a new 13-story apartment tower on a “challenging” site on the Southbank has not been a long one – until now. Beginning in October 2016, when Ventures Development Group first presented its concepts for the residential tower to the Downtown Development Review Board […]
Smaller living quarters require more offsite storage opportunities
With all the new residential development coming to San Marco, is it any wonder that self-storage would follow? And now not one, but two companies have plans to put in self-storage on Kings Avenue. Liberty Investment Properties in Orlando is partnering with Jacksonville-based Finley & Shell Properties to build a 700-unit climate-controlled self-storage facility at […]
Custom home builder to try hand at first multi-home development
Adam Merrill has high hopes for his first property development project. Although Merrill, the president of John Merrill Homes, builds on average six custom homes per year in residential infill, Green Hills in Riverside will be his first multi-home development. The property, which is comprised of about 3.5 vacant acres west of James Street, will […]
