Neighborhood News

All the latest news from the neighborhoods in our coverage areas.

Riverside, other urban neighborhoods play key roles in Downtown redevelopment

Riverside, other urban neighborhoods  play key roles in Downtown redevelopment

Sustained commercial growth in Riverside and a flurry of legislation passed in December by the Jacksonville City Council are serving as fuel to keep the Downtown revitalization engine running, local business leaders say. Redeveloping Downtown – which has been a priority for Mayor Alvin Brown since he took office 18 months ago – will depend […]

Do public schools make the grade?

New website provides School Facts JAX   The Jacksonville Public Education Fund (JPEF) recently released school statistics on their website which indicates that there is both good news and not-so-good news about the public schools in the area. The JPEF is an independent nonprofit organization that believes informed and active citizens together with attentive and […]

Jaguars owner visits St. Vincent’s Riverside

Jaguars owner visits St. Vincent’s Riverside

St. Vincent’s HealthCare welcomed Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shahid Khan and President Mark Lamping to St. Vincent’s Medical Center Riverside on Dec. 22. Khan and Lamping visited with physicians and staff members and toured the Gary and Nancy Chartrand Heart & Vascular Center, the Winston Family Orthopedic Center of Excellence and a St. Vincent’s HealthCare mobile […]

Legislation will revitalize Brooklyn neighborhood

Legislation will revitalize Brooklyn neighborhood

New jobs, new housing, more retail opportunities Christmas came early for developer Pope & Land Jax Riverside LP. And the signed legislation authorizing the city to move forward with public investment will be a gift that keeps on giving for the temporary and permanent jobs to be created, the aging public infrastructure to be revamped […]

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens wants to connect dots

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens wants to connect dots

  The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens wants to connect dots – cultural, civic and environmental dots, that is. According to museum director Hope McMath, The Cummer’s campus is undergoing a $3.5 million restoration and landscape enhancement project that began with the first phase last September in the heretofore non-public Olmsted Garden. “This project […]

Mellow Mushroom and We Love Avondale reach tentative agreement

  Final approval awaiting January 5 LUZ meeting   A month of hard work behind closed doors has led to a tentative New Year’s agreement in the lingering battle over the opening of the Mellow Mushroom in the Shoppes of Avondale. Representatives from both sides met several times last month with District 14 City Councilman […]

St. Johns Riverkeeper Volunteers of the Year

St. Johns Riverkeeper Volunteers of the Year

St. Johns Riverkeeper, a nonprofit advocacy organization for the St. Johns River, recently announced the recipients of its 2012 Volunteer Awards: St. Johns River Advocate of the Year: Jim Alabiso is an outspoken advocate for the St. Johns River. Jim and his JumpingFish team have organized 6-kilometer swims across the river, a 12-mile swim up […]

Meet the Resident News staff

Meet the Resident News staff

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