Posted on January 7, 2013
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One Friday in December, Washington came to town. SBA Deputy Administrator Marie Johns toured – and shopped at – three small businesses in historic Avondale to highlight the importance of supporting small businesses during the holiday season. Her visits to Design Additions, the Green Alligator and the Florida Creamery underscored the important role small businesses […]
Posted on January 7, 2013
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2013 promises to grow upon best laid plans Overall, below the surface, 2012 appeared to be a slow, lackluster economic grind that revealed that we’re still on the brink – but you couldn’t tell by the pace of business growth, zoning challenges, and infrastructure improvements in our neighborhoods. But dig below the surface (in some […]
Posted on January 7, 2013
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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 […]
Posted on January 7, 2013
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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 […]
Posted on January 7, 2013
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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 […]
Posted on January 7, 2013
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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 […]
Posted on January 7, 2013
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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 […]
Posted on January 7, 2013
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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 […]