Traffic safety enhancements coming to St. Nicholas Town Center
In the not-so-distant future, pedestrians may find it a little safer trying to cross Beach Boulevard at St. Nicholas Town Center. In approximately three years, the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) is planning to install a crosswalk across Beach Boulevard near Palmer Terrace. The project will be part of a larger intersection improvement venture between […]
Site of former public elementary school planned for new charter school
In a few years, the sound of children laughing and playing may again be heard in Mixon Town, where the former Forest Park Elementary School was once “surrounded by a City incinerator on the East, a polluted creek on the North, and a meat and poultry (abattoir) company on the West,” according to documents from […]
New Cathedral District has forward-thinking plan for community growth
It has been several years in the making, but the plan that was shaped through heartfelt conversations between a priest and a parishioner is poised to revive the Cathedral District, perpetuating a sense of place with love at its core. Soon after The Very Rev. Kate Moorehead, dean of St. John’s Cathedral, arrived in Jacksonville […]
Highway construction projects chugging along
While it may seem as though I-10 and I-95 are forever under construction, there is light at the end of the tunnel. The $126 million project, which began in March 2017, is slated for completion in late 2020. According to Daryl Goss, Community Outreach Specialist for the Department of Transportation, the overall project is at […]
Freed to Run adds powerhouse proponents, community co-chairs
Jacksonville Area Legal Aid’s largest fundraiser, Freed to Run, will get a boost this year from three newly-appointed co-chairs of the event: Darnell Smith, Florida Blue’s market president for North Florida; Eric Krall, mortgage sales manager with Community First Credit Union; and Ryan M. Ludwick, an attorney with Fisher, Tousey, Leas & Ball. The trio […]
MOCA curator showcases contemporary art, lives in historic neighborhood
As the new senior curator at MOCA Jacksonville, Ylva Rouse seeks to bring contemporary art from local and international artists to the museum. But at the end of the workday, she transitions from the contemporary to the historical as she makes her way to her Avondale home. Rouse moved to Jacksonville from New Orleans, where […]
The Way We Were: Neill Wade McArthur, Jr.
Neill McArthur has done some serious traveling in his lifetime. He mentioned 20 countries he has visited and that didn’t include visiting the Russian Federation twice, where he had problems with his passport and his hotel reservations were cancelled because the King of Saudi Arabia reserved the entire hotel and displaced the other hotel guests. […]
The Way We Were: Katherine Monahan
Once upon a time, 79 years ago to be exact, a little two-year-old named Katherine and her three older sisters found themselves living on the east side of the St. Johns River, in the Granada neighborhood just south of San Marco. Their father, J. Reedy Brown, worked for National Distillers, maker of some of the […]
Sleiman Enterprises acquires historic building in San Marco Square
The first commercial building ever constructed in San Marco Square has been sold. Built in 1926, The San Marco Building at 1974 San Marco Blvd., affectionately known to residents as San Marco One, and two smaller adjacent buildings – 1980 San Marco Blvd. home of Starbucks Coffee and 1972 San Marco Blvd., home of Beau […]
