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Downtown Jacksonville: The Exclusion Zone
After 40 years of downtown revitalization, hundreds of millions of dollars expended, and politicians continuously touting their successes in urban renewal; today Downtown Jacksonville, LaVilla specifically, looks striking similiar to the site of the worlds worst nuclear accident: Chernobyl.
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Update from the Convention Center Task Force
The latest white paper report by the JCCI Convention Center Task Force has been released and so far the recommendations fall in line with what Metro Jacksonville has been saying for over a year.
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Five Projects Changing the Urban Landscape
The following five projects have the potential to positively change the atmosphere of downtown in the near future.
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Why is Downtown a Blank Slate?
You've always heard in the past that it's hard to set up shop downtown. This is for a variety of reasons, such as parking, the homeless, etc. Today, Metro Jacksonville takes a look at yet another reason it's difficult to set up shop downtown: Government and absentee landlords.
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Downtown Parking Lots and the Customers Who Hate Them
If you answered yes to any of the four questions, your company may be engaged in what an article, Companies And The Customers Who Hate Them in the Harvard Business Review calls adversarial value-extracting strategies.
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KBJ Just Doesn't Get It!
In downtown areas, when a building is destroyed it is often referred to as a missing tooth . This is because in downtowns, the majority of buildings do not stand alone, but are generally part of a continuous wall of buildings fronting on the street. The missing tooth analogy is appropriate, given the...
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Main Street Renaissance?
Main Street has everything in place needed for a full blown urban renaissance. These components include immediate population density, an urban zoning overlay, historic building fabric, lots for infill development, proximity to downtown and public support. Despite all of the positives, Main Street still...
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A Tale of Two Park Systems
Springfield San Marco. Everyone in Jacksonville seems to know there is a difference in two of the most urban of Jacksonville suburbs. By all accounts, as far as gentrification goes, Springfield is a good 7 to 10 years behind San Marco.
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JTA Wants to Hear from You
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority is attempting to collect information about how they can improve their service. Let them know what you think!
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Downtown's Red Tape
What do Fuddruckers, Einstein?s Bagels, and Chamblin?s Uptown have in common? The opening of these businesses was delayed by permitting issues. Business after business have attempted to open a location downtown and have been delayed for weeks, and in some cases even months, because a merchant did not...
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