DIA considers plans to build apartments on Southbank restaurant location
Redevelopment along Downtown’s riverfront could be shifting to the Southbank. Related Group of Miami is in talks with Maritime Concepts, owner of the River City Brewing Co., to build a $92.34 million apartment building on the Southbank location where the iconic restaurant now stands. Maritime has entered into a contract with Related Group to sell […]
Cultural Council installs fifth sculpture in urban core
It was with great excitement that downtown arts benefactor Preston Haskell of Ortega joined sculptor David Engdahl of San Marco, artist Cecilia Lueza, and Glenn Weiss, director of public art for the Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville to watch the fifth sculptural masterpiece within the city’s Art in Public Places program take its place on […]
COVID sparks dramatic uptick in residential market
The residential real estate market in Jacksonville’s historic neighborhoods is sizzling hot, and believe it or not, much of this is due to COVID-19. Although there is no question that the Coronavirus pandemic has negatively impacted many businesses on the First Coast, the opposite has been true of the housing market, according to many local […]
Brooklyn renaissance transforms historic neighborhood
Architect Joe Cronk said nobody had to sell him on Brooklyn. “We’re ex-Haskell guys. We grew up on Riverside. Brooklyn is a vital link between 5 Points and LaVilla and Downtown,” he explained. And Cronk isn’t the only one who is “sold” on Brooklyn. In the last five years, the historic black neighborhood has undergone […]
City bond sale generates record $245 million for capital improvements
The City of Jacksonville recently sold $245 million worth of municipal bonds at an average interest rate of 2.22%, a new record for the City, Mayor Lenny Curry’s office announced Aug. 21. Within this bond issue, the City was also able to save taxpayers more than $25 million by refinancing higher rate bonds at substantially […]
Deadline nears for developers to determine future of The District
San Marco’s Peter Rummell and Michael Munz, partners in Elements Development, have until Sept. 30 to make a decision about the future of their 30-acre Southbank project The District. First unveiled in 2014, The District is an ambitious proposal to transform the riverfront land formerly occupied by JEA’s Southside Generating Station into a multi-use development […]
Alumni forms committee to save name of Robert E. Lee High
What’s in a name? Quite a bit. Just ask the alumni of Robert E. Lee High School. Built in 1927 to meet the needs of a growing city, Lee High School in Riverside joined Andrew Jackson High and Julia E. Landon High as three Jacksonville high schools constructed the same year to replace Duval High […]
Work commences on two Southbank construction projects
While the Coronavirus pandemic may have caused many Jacksonville businesses to slow down or come to a screeching halt, construction on two Southbank developments appears to be full steam ahead. Construction crews were working hard in July on Southbank Apartments, an infill multi-family complex on the Southbank, which is being built near the railroad bridge […]
