Herschel Street businesses, residents petition for crosswalks
For customers of small businesses and restaurants along Herschel Street, crossing the busy state road (Florida SR 211) on foot is no easy task. Limited store-side parking on the west side of Herschel Street forces patrons to park across the street in a “parking field” on the east side and walk to their destination, exposing […]
Former department store comes down
For more than a year, tenants in Roosevelt Square Mall, as well as nearby residents, have waited for the next shoe to drop after Belk Department Store closed its doors at 4535 Roosevelt Blvd. The closure came in January 2017 and then the building sat vacant while rumors circulated about future use as residential, retail […]
Riverfront party mansion slapped with injunction
A neighborhood dispute between the owners of a riverfront estate and other residents on a quiet street in Miramar may be drawing to a close with an order by a Circuit Court judge to stop using the property as a destination rental. The Tuscan River Estate, 4424 Kelnepa Drive, has been marketed as “a premier […]
Chance Partners get rezoning approval for second San Marco development
Just as construction is beginning on the old Jackson Square property, the developers, Judd Bobilin and Jeff Rosen, are launching a second residential project to the north that they envision becoming the gateway to San Marco. Bobilin and Rosen, principals of Chance Partners LLC, won approval to rezone 6.8 acres on Kings Avenue anchored by […]
Coffee shop’s popularity creates headaches for nearby residents
San Marco Place is a little street directly behind Southside Baptist Church with about a dozen houses. A street you pass without noticing it unless you’re looking for a cut-through from Hendricks Avenue and Atlantic Boulevard – or a place to park. But residents say traffic jams caused by on-street parking have become a problem, […]
Hendricks residents’ parking concerns fall on deaf ears at FDOT
Although it may be too late, Hendricks Avenue residents who live in the half-mile residential stretch between Dunsford Road and San Marco Boulevard are praying the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) will yet find a compromise that will protect the on-street parking in front of their homes, which is slated to be eliminated when State […]
Conflict resolution in community garden an ongoing debate
Lock it up or leave it open – that’s the issue facing the Riverside Avondale Preservation (RAP) board of directors as they grapple with complaints of theft from the community garden at the corner of Park Street and Azalea Terrace. The garden, which opened in April 2016 under a public-private partnership between RAP and the […]
Waterways Commission gives Fishweir Creek dredging project ‘green light’
The long-awaited dredging of Big Fishweir Creek has inched forward with the approval by the City of Jacksonville Waterways Commission of an ordinance to authorize a partnership between the City and the Army Corps of Engineers. Under the partnership, the city would fund 35 percent of the $6.5 million project that would be undertaken by […]
