Boyer, residents seek ways to shield neighborhood river access from graffiti, teen partying
Fed up with graffiti on the bulkhead, overflowing litter, and frequent drug and alcohol use by teens in the city’s riverfront right-of-way at the end of Inwood Terrace, neighborhood residents met with District 5 Councilwoman Lori Boyer in January to seek solutions. In response to a resident’s suggestion that the area be turned into a […]
St. Johns Quarter gets new zoning
In what appears to be a pre-emptive strike against future intense commercial development of the area known as St. John’s Quarter, owners of 57 properties in a 10.47 acre portion of Riverside received approval for rezoning. Following the July 2015 enactment of Bill 2015-338, which introduced a new zoning district to the City of Jacksonville […]
Overland Bridge construction to shift traffic patterns
Drivers who regularly traverse I-95 through the ongoing Overland Bridge construction, one that serves to complete a large portion of the Better Jacksonville Plan, will see a notable shift on their route. As progress continues, the Florida Department of Transportation wants to make drivers aware of shifts in traffic patterns. A major traffic shift on […]
Luxury apartments to comprise first phase of The District
The first phase of The District – Life Well Lived – Jacksonville is one step closer to becoming reality. On Dec. 15 Equity Resources LLC of Birmingham, Alabama, announced plans to develop a high-end luxury apartment community in connection with The District – Life Well Lived – Jacksonville, a Southbank riverfront urban resort planned by […]
Nautical eyesore removed from Southbank
Thanks to the generosity of a NASCAR racecar driver, the sunken Lady St. Johns, a derelict party boat, is no longer an eyesore on the river landscape in the view of many Southbank residents. Ray Black, Jr., owner of Blacksmith Marine Corporation – Offshore, supplied a crane pro bono and spent four days raising […]
Superintendent willing to consider school board building move
Envisioning the stretch of riverfront from the Main Street Bridge to the new The District – Life Well Lived – Jacksonville site is similar to playing the childhood game, “One of These Things is Not Like the Other.” Dotting the landscape are high-rise apartment and condominium buildings, hotels and restaurants, with more to follow once […]
Southbank to explode with new growth in 2016
Redeveloping the Southbank is all about “placemaking,” Downtown Investment Authority CEO Aundra Wallace likes to say. With several new developments on the cusp of becoming reality, major stakeholders from the residential, medical and central business districts met in late November to have a “conversation” in order to begin “pulling the pieces together” as several key […]
JTA Board votes to keep Skyway
The Jacksonville Skyway, a monorail transit system managed by the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, will live to see another day and possibly be expanded. During its Dec. 10 meeting, the JTA Board of Directors voted unanimously to accept the Skyway subcommittee’s recommendation to continue operating the downtown connector while having staff develop a Skyway Modernization Program, […]
