Ahead of the Curve: What’s in Store for 2024
The new year offers a fresh start for people to recenter, reassess and regroup for the coming 12 months. Some prepare with resolutions; others use vision boards. Others still like to select a word that will embody the attitude and outlook with which they will step into the new year. The word we at The […]
Anticipation Grows at RiversEdge
A November unveiling event heralded the next phase of construction for the Southbank’s highly anticipated mixed-use development RiversEdge: Life on the St. Johns. Since the development broke ground in 2021, site work has been primarily unseen by Jacksonville residents as it has consisted of underground infrastructural work and bulkhead construction. Moving forward, however, the city […]
Riverfront activation gets helping hand from Conservancy, nonprofit groups
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 […]
Looking back, looking forward
The start of a new year is a combination of closure and anticipation. In that blink of a moment between 11:59:59 and 12:00:00, we bid farewell to the old year, sometimes closing the door gently behind us, other times slamming it and embrace the beautiful (terrifying?) unknown of a fresh 12 months. It is also […]
Infrastructure work underway at Southbank’s RiversEdge
Initial phases of the downtown Southbank ‘RiversEdge: Life on the St. Johns’ project are underway as the much-anticipated riverfront development continues to progress, transforming the vacant lot once belonging to JEA. After a groundbreaking ceremony in May 2021, residents can now see tangible evidence of RiversEdge taking shape as infrastructure is being installed. This current […]
Groundbreaking on RiversEdge
It was a big day for citizens of Jacksonville May 25, as one of the largest development projects in generations was unveiled along the banks of the St. Johns River. Leadership from the Downtown Investment Authority, District 5, and several key players for both the development team with Preston Hollow Capital and representatives from Toll […]
