Restaurant developer requesting right-of-way turned into parking

The developer of a barbecue restaurant proposed for a pie slice-shaped property between Roosevelt and Ortega Boulevards has submitted a bill (2018-265) which requests the City of Jacksonville to convert a right-of-way into use for angle parking. The 150-seat restaurant, known as Edley’s Bar-B-Que, is required to have a minimum of 48 off-street parking spaces, […]

Trees for the planting, thanks to tree mitigation fund

Trees for the planting, thanks to tree mitigation fund

If you’ve always wanted or needed to plant a tree in the right-of-way in front of your property, now you can, thanks to the City of Jacksonville’s tree settlement with a variety of civic groups in July 2017. The suit filed in 2015 by the Public Trust Environmental Legal Institute of Florida challenged the city’s […]

The Way We Were: Jane Condon

The Way We Were: Jane Condon

Jane Condon’s maiden name, Sharp, is an excellent fit for the woman who successfully led three Jacksonville schools for the arts. The English idiom “sharp cookie” describes one who is intelligent, bright, and sharp enough to identify attempts to deceive or mislead. Jane’s strong, innovative, astute and insightful leadership as principal of Douglas Anderson School […]

Local bartender takes creative cocktail to Scotland

Local bartender takes creative cocktail to Scotland

A local man mixed the perfect cocktail and won a trip to Scotland. The backstory about Ben Golden, a bartender/mixologist at Bellwether, is that he entered a global competition run by Glenfiddich, the Scotch whisky producer, to be named the World’s Most Experimental Bartender. The competition, now in its fourth year, challenges bartenders to create […]

Children of all ages enjoy PTA carnival

Children of all ages enjoy PTA carnival

Bounce houses, a climbing tower and bungee bounce swing, carnival games, face and hair painting, and food trucks turned the Hendricks Avenue Elementary School campus into the perfect setting for a spring carnival May 4. The warm late afternoon, early evening event was sponsored by the Hendricks Avenue Elementary PTA, which strives to break even […]

Arts educator asks for donations to mitigate budget cuts

Arts educator asks for donations to mitigate budget cuts

Central Riverside Elementary School held its 5th annual student art exhibit and fundraiser, and it couldn’t have come at a more critical time. Due to budget cuts to the arts programs, Duval County Public School District funding for art supplies is not expected to continue next year. “I hope we do well, as we will […]

Art, music speaks to students in language all its own

Art, music speaks to students in language all its own

Twenty-five deaf/hard-of-hearing students and those with varying exceptionalities from Central Riverside Elementary School enjoyed the 23rd annual Very Special Arts (VSA) festival May 2 at The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens. Over a four-day period during the first week in May, over 1,450 volunteers welcomed 1,678 students and 691 teachers and chaperones from 38 […]

San Marco Promenade apartments under development

San Marco Promenade apartments under development

Nearly a year after receiving approval from the City of Jacksonville’s Planning Commission to swap locations of two phases of a $33.35 million project for a residential community east of San Marco’s Alexandria Oaks Park, Chance Partners LLC is starting to move dirt. The new apartment complex at 2600 Philips Highway, a property originally rezoned […]

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