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A Message to City Hall: Practice What You Preach
It's the typical story out of the City of Jacksonville: continuing to trade Babe Ruths for a bucket of balls and a pair of dirty socks. This particular story involves the city making a move to strengthen the core, but ignoring or forgetting to incorporate the small details that create really vibrant...
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Discover In-Town Jacksonville?
Much has been discussed over the years about bus rapid transit, skyway/trolley ridership, non-user friendly stops and the city's struggle in creating an environment that helps strengthen the downtown convention market.While JTA does offer a brochure for those looking to use their services to get...
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Jax Daily Record serves as Mouthpiece of Downtown Parking Lot Owners
The Jacksonville Daily Record is taking the position of legal advisor and advocate for downtown blight and the destruction of historic structures.
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Salvaging The Big Idea II: Preserving Friendship Fountain
Last week we shared an affordable solution that involved finding a suitable location for the Mayor's Flex Space needs, without being forced to relocate Kids Kampus or destroy Friendship Fountain in the process. Today we take a look at what can be done to bring life back to the Southbank, by working...
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Salvaging The Big Idea I: Kids Kampus & Flex Space
A year ago, the Big Idea was publicly announced and went down with a big thud in the eyes of most urban oriented downtown advocates. Although the plan presented was pretty horrible in terms of urban integration and unrealistic implementation, many of the basic concepts, such as creating flex-space and...
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Urban Connectivity: The Jacksonville Landing
The Jacksonville Landing opened its doors to the world with much fanfare in 1987. Over the following 20 years the 125,000sf complex would see several national tenants, like the Banana Republic and The Sharper Image flee to greener pastures, partially due to the city?s negligence in providing the required...
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Greening of Main: A failure in the making?
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Well in this case, let's substitute the asphalt with a $700,000 patch of grass. Today we'll introduce 10 things needed to create a successful urban public space and illustrate why the pocket park being constructed as a part of the Greening...
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An Absentee Downtown
The Jacksonville Business Journal (http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/) recent released their March edition of the Commercial Real Estate Journal. For those that haven’t seen this before, it contains a breakdown of the commercial real estate, based on regions of town. In the Downtown section,...
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Fake look alike tickets part of money grab scam?
Downtown parking lot operators, including Central Parking System (http://www.parking.com/), are engaging in the questionably legal act of issuing their own parking tickets to downtown visitors and residents.
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Left out in the rain (and the sun)
We are approaching the time of year when people will begin to break out their swimsuits, jet skis, and boats. It will be summer again soon. And if you ride the city bus here in Jacksonville, don't forget to take your umbrella with you every single day. That is because the sun can be harsh. Not only...
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