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Independence Day in Jacksonville
The City of Jacksonville put on its annual Freedom, Fanfare and Fireworks show in Downtown Jacksonville to celebrate Independence Day. Will future fireworks displays have to be cut back in the face of a budget crisis?
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Distinguish Jacksonville: Jacksonville Farmer's Market
The Jacksonville Farmer's Market relocated to new facilities adjacent to its previous site in February 2007. This is Metro Jacksonville's first photo tour of the market with everything in full swing.
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Introducing The Eastside: Neighborhood Photo Tour
While many are familiar with the rise and fall of LaVilla, not many know about Jacksonville's other historic African-American suburb and now inner city district... The Eastside.
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Exploring Downtown's Cathedral District
The Cathedral District may be the urban core's most overlooked and forgotten pedestrian friendly neighborhood. Due to several years of neglect and the destruction of building fabric for surface parking lots, outside of parking for Jaguars games, there's not much reason to walk it on foot. Despite this,...
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Springfield Heritage Throwback Baseball: East vs West
The Springfield Heritage Throwback Baseball Game was held on May 5th in Klutho Park. It was put together over a series of months through the efforts of many Springfield residents.
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Walking San Marco Square: Photo Tour
Although not as heavily promoted as it should be, San Marco Square is an artsy shopping, dining and entertainment district just south of downtown. It has become one of Metropolitan Jacksonville's trendiest shopping and dining destinations.
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Dancey Terrace Photo Tour
The extremely controversial and long delayed Dancey Terrace has finally opened a model home to the public. These twenty-four 1,000 square foot bungalows were slated for demolition, but were saved by half of the Springfield constituents (to the dismay of the other half).
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First Wednesday Art Walk Photo Tour: April Edition
The Downtown Art Walk, which is held the first Wednesday of each month, had a strong turnout. Despite this strong showing, Tony Allegretti was expecting 50,000 (http://theurbancoredotcom.blogspot.com/2007/04/50000-expected-for-art-walk-tonight.html) people and a few celebrities, so he must be a little...
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Exploring the Northside: Gateway Mall Photo Tour
Opened in the mid 1950's, and after going through a period of decline from 1988 to 1994, the 630,000sf Gateway Mall is well on its way to making a comeback. While you won't find the Gaps and Cheesecake Factories of the world here, you will discover a center that has been recreated to serve...
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Through the Night: Springfield Historic District
Take a photo journey through Jacksonville's oldest urban neighborhood: Springfield Historic District.
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