Community Connections honors Rick Catlett, business leaders
[su_slider source=”media: 35121,35126,35125,35124,35123,35122″ link=”lightbox” width=”620″ height=”420″] Achieving goals and bettering lives for Jacksonville’s most vulnerable is best accomplished by the business community. With its organic growth over the years and the leaders who act as change agents in our city, much more can be accomplished for those underserved in the community. Those were a few […]
Nemours delivers for children, funds for care
[su_slider source=”media: 35112,35118,35117,35116,35115,35114,35113″ link=”lightbox” width=”620″ height=”420″] The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens set a beautiful backdrop for this year’s annual fundraiser, An Evening of Promise, on behalf of Nemours Children’s Specialty Care. The summer evening soiree brought like-minded sponsors and patrons to raise much-needed funding for patient care, research, outreach and education for the […]
Local Olympic Games enthrall neighborhood kids
[su_slider source=”media: 35109,35108,35107,35106,35105″ link=”lightbox” width=”620″ height=”420″] For Olympic competitors and their fans, there’s probably nothing more thrilling than hearing the iconic words “Let the games begin!” For nearly two dozen Avondale children, those same words – and the lighting of the Challen Avenue Olympic torch – kicked off an evening of fun Aug. 14. The […]
Riverside dancer’s tenacity pays off in a big way
At 18, Pamela Litz has a world of opportunities before her, but the journey has not always been easy for the young dancer and scholar. While a student at LaVilla, her parents divorced when she was 14. Litz’ normally cheerful demeanor changed and her academic studies suffered. The one constant in her life was her […]
The Way We Were: Dorothy Surrency Rosenbloom
If you were limited to choosing just one word to describe Dorothy Ann “Dot” Surrency Rosenbloom, chances are “longevity” would be the word. Dot Rosenbloom’s long life has been full of long-lived relationships, beginning with her grade school friendship with the boy who would become her husband of 67 years. The 88-year-old Ortega resident was […]
Avondale parking a never-ending problem with difficult solutions
Economic success, at least in Avondale, has come at the price of parking – or the lack of it. In the three years following the success of Mellow Mushroom’s foray into the neighborhood, the commercial mix in a three-block portion of St. Johns Avenue known as the Shoppes of Avondale has begun to change in […]
Amendments to Riverside Avondale Zoning Overlay underway
While some residents of Riverside and Avondale wait for legislation to help curtail retail and commercial development in the historic district, attorneys for restaurateurs are busy filing applications, administrative deviations and waivers, which will “grandfather” their projects against any new regulations. For almost three months, District 14 Councilman Jim Love’s bill to amend the Riverside […]
Third time may be the charm for Commander/St. Johns Village
Calling it “Commander 3.0,” Jeff Graf said he had “lived through” two previous versions and hoped this would be the last of what could happen to the property on St. Johns Avenue known as St. Johns Village and Commander Tower Apartments. In a community meeting Aug. 29 at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, […]
Proposed restaurant in Avondale receives green light
Against the recommendation of the City of Jacksonville Planning and Development Department and despite passionate pleas from Avondale residents, businesses, and property owners, the Planning Commission voted 5-3 to approve a request for a 120-seat restaurant to move into the Shoppes of Avondale without having to provide any off-street parking. The applicant, property owner Thomas […]
