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Proposed 5 Points Concept Plan still in flux

Proposed 5 Points Concept Plan still in flux

If there’s one thing nearly everyone in 5 Points agrees about, it’s keeping the iconic beacon in place as the neighborhood landmark. What splits the community is the kind of traffic infrastructure that might be built around it. When concerns arose recently about the possibility of the 5 Points beacon being sacrificed for the intersection […]

Baptist Health rolls out renderings of new cancer center

Baptist Health rolls out renderings of new cancer center

Nearly a year after announcing a partnership with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Baptist Health officials have rolled out renderings for a towering new cancer center to be built in North San Marco, which they say will offer patients the best state-of-the-art cancer care in the country. In a public meeting sponsored […]

Cummer board votes to demolish Woman’s Club of Jacksonville building

Cummer board votes to demolish Woman’s Club of Jacksonville building

Despite every effort to save an historic Riverside building, the board of trustees of the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens made the difficult decision in March to halt renovation of the old Woman’s Club of Jacksonville building and have it tagged for demolition. Although the exterior is brick, the wood trusses and walls were […]

City applies Band-Aid to holes in Riverfront Park

City applies Band-Aid to holes in Riverfront Park

No longer do visitors or fishermen have to worry about being swallowed up by a deep crevice as they stroll along the bulkhead in Riverfront Park. The Jacksonville Public Works Department put a Band-Aid on the problem of its crumbling bulkhead when it used heavy equipment in late March to fill several holes along the […]

Muralist hired to beautify Inwood Terrace bulkhead

Muralist hired to beautify Inwood Terrace bulkhead

In an effort to combat graffiti and make the bulkhead near the St. Johns River at the end of their street beautiful, residents of Inwood Terrace have engaged an artist to paint several murals on the city right-of-way. Nicole Holderbaum, an accomplished muralist who has painted other wall scenes throughout the city, has been selected […]

St. Vincent’s 100th anniversary

St. Vincent’s 100th anniversary

Nearly 400 years have passed since an aristocratic widow and a priest joined forces for good in France, but their original mission lives on worldwide. Now celebrating its 100th anniversary in Jacksonville, St. Vincent’s HealthCare would not be where it is today had it not been for the care and fortitude of the Daughters of […]

City Council approves new Boone Park playground

City Council approves new Boone Park playground

Jacksonville City Council approved the appropriation of $255,000 from three sources for contribution towards the installation of a new playscape in Boone Park South (located at the corner of St. Johns and Van Wert Avenues). District 14 Councilman Jim Love allocated $90,000 from District 14 Bond Funds, $75,000 will come from the Countywide Parks – […]

Community views new cancer center renderings

Community views new cancer center renderings

Provided the Jacksonville City Council and Land Use and Zoning Committee sign off on the deal, by early 2018 the two-block parcels of mostly vacant land across from Nemours Children’s Specialty Care should look very different than it does now. In a public meeting April 4 sponsored by the San Marco Preservation Society, officials from […]