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Real estate shift coming to historic areas

The face of Jacksonville – especially its historic neighborhoods – will look significantly different in a few years. In the San Marco and Southside areas alone, more than $700 million in mixed-use projects – apartments, townhouses and retail – are expected to be developed. More

Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center’s elaborate, intentional design aesthetic enhances cancer care, treatment for entire region

With great fanfare the new Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center building, which serves as a gateway to San Marco from the north, is now open for business to serve cancer patients and their families. Although the new cancer center first opened its doors to patients

Developers of residential infill projects rise to challenge

With the historic neighborhoods almost at capacity, remaining lots are becoming increasingly scarce – yet the demand to live in these neighborhoods continues to rise. One antidote to the problem is residential infill, but it comes with its own set of challenges. It can be

Downtown at ‘a point of change’ for commercial investments

Oliver Barakat, 48, has been a commercial real estate broker in Jacksonville since the late ‘90s. He specializes in office properties. He helps tenants find the right space and advises them through the entire process from planning and strategy, to negotiating the lease, to the

Fishweir Creek restoration project faces several hurdles

Despite support for or grumblings against the Army Corps of Engineers’ proposed aquatic habitat ecosystem restoration project on Fishweir Creek, the project has four hurdles to overcome, each of which could stop it in its tracks. The project goals include restoring the historic estuary to

DEP satisfied with RiverVue construction site environmental protections

Fairfax Manor residents concerned about silt discharges in Fishweir Creek enlisted the help of the St. Johns Riverkeeper to look into a July 4 incident which they believe came from the construction site at RiverVue, where a 228-unit apartment community is being erected. “You can