DIA considers plans to build apartments on Southbank restaurant location
Redevelopment along Downtown’s riverfront could be shifting to the Southbank. Related Group of Miami is in talks with Maritime Concepts, owner of the River City Brewing Co., to build a $92.34 million apartment building on the Southbank location where the iconic restaurant now stands. Maritime has entered into a contract with Related Group to sell […]
Neighborhood group gives up fight in church development lawsuit
Right Size San Marco, a grass roots neighborhood group comprised of more than 1,000 members, has decided to cry “uncle” in its appeal of the City of Jacksonville’s decision to allow a good portion of the South Jacksonville Presbyterian Church campus near San Marco Square be rezoned so that a four-story, 49.5-foot tall apartment complex […]
FWC to revive legislation to regulate overnight anchoring in Ortega River
Riverfront Ortega homeowners and local boaters who desired a law be drawn up prohibiting vessels from anchoring overnight in the Ortega River should not give up hope. Although the bill – HB 417 – introduced by State Representative Wyman Duggan died on the vine during the last legislative session, which ended in March, there is […]
Iconic mural bites dust in bank demolition
Murray Hill’s sprawling “Calvin and Hobbes” mural that was painted by Jerkface, a famous New York streetscape artist, was demolished along with the Bank of America Building 840 Edgewood Avenue South in early September. The building’s playful cartoonish mural stretched along the southern side of the former Bank of America branch facing Kerle Street. The […]
Texas company takes over development of The District
A young, feisty independent specialty finance company has taken over The District project on the Southbank. Preston Hollow Capital of Dallas bought the Elements Development of Jacksonville LLC, including the 30 acres of land, from Peter Rummell and Michael Munz in early September. “They stepped into our shoes,” Munz said. Preston Hollow was founded in […]
Sock give-away is ‘step in the right direction’
Family Promise of Jacksonville received 2,750 pairs of Bombas socks valued at $33,000, sharing 1,750 pairs with four partner agencies. Bombas Socks had donated 50,000 pairs of socks to 25 Family Promise affiliates across the nation as part of its policy to donate a pair for every sock purchased by the public. “We want the […]
Cultural Council installs fifth sculpture in urban core
It was with great excitement that downtown arts benefactor Preston Haskell of Ortega joined sculptor David Engdahl of San Marco, artist Cecilia Lueza, and Glenn Weiss, director of public art for the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville to watch the fifth sculptural masterpiece within the city’s Art in Public Places program take its place on […]
Ortega Park subcontractors fined for stormwater violations
After six repeated violations of best management practices that would prevent sediment from flowing into the Ortega River, two subcontractors for Dewberry Group, the owner and developer of Ortega Park Mall on Roosevelt Boulevard, entered into a “Consent Order” with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Aug. 3. Marietta Sand Corporation and RLH Construction LLC, […]
