Posted on December 3, 2023
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The Jessie Ball duPont Fund has hired Laura Phillips Edgecombe as Principal, Downtown Public Spaces. Edgecombe will be an Executive on Loan to the City of Jacksonville, working with the Department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services, with responsibility for facilitating the equitable activation of Downtown public spaces for the benefit of all Jaxsons. Edgecombe […]
Posted on April 1, 2023
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An update on pocket parks and projects ahead Last August, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund released the Activation Plan for Jacksonville’s Downtown Riverfront — a plan “informed by hundreds of hours of conversation…with stakeholders from across Jacksonville’s neighborhoods” to activate and revitalize the invaluable North- and Southbank real estate — through both public and private […]
Posted on March 8, 2023
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Last month the Jessie Ball duPont Fund hosted a community event to discuss Jacksonville’s “housing ecosystem.” To do that, it welcomed Philadelphia-based The Reinvestment Fund to share its 2022 Market Value Analysis (MVA) for Jacksonville/Duval County. An MVA, the presentation explained, is “a tool to help residents and policymakers identify and understand the elements of […]
Posted on January 10, 2023
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Neighborhood News, Riverside, Avondale, Ortega, Murray Hill
Highly anticipated Bicentennial Edition released for sale It was an evening of historic proportions, as author Dr. Wayne W. Wood unveiled and signed the second, updated printing of Jacksonville’s Architectural Heritage – Landmarks for the Future, Bicentennial Edition. The latest volume of the book, originally printed in January of 1989, made its debut at a […]
Posted on December 1, 2021
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After months of meetings and public input, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund has presented its proposal to revitalize Jacksonville’s riverfront. The Fund was tasked to bring together stakeholders to find out what Jacksonville residents wanted done to ensure there was enough public access to the river that would provide the greatest benefit with public spaces […]