Plans have been filed to to renovate Arlington's former Town & Country Shopping Center into a mixed use development called College Park. The redevelopment of the 67-year-old shopping center would include multifamily residential infill and a 17,733-square-foot shipping container food court. The shipping container food court being developed by JWB Real Estate Capital would be Jacksonville's first. Here's a look at five popular shipping container food halls for a visual example of what could be headed to town. Read More
In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month, The Jaxson and Modern Cities highlight a bit of forgotten early 20th century Cuban cigar manufacturing history in Jacksonville. Read More
Originating in Chicago, Prairie School was attempt in creating an indigenous North American style of architecture related to the ideas and aesthetics of the Arts and Crafts Movement of the late 19th and early 20th century. Characterized by horizontal lines, windows grouped in horizontal bands, and flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, the architectural style came to Jacksonville when young architects influenced by the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan, moved to the city to help rebuild after the Great Fire of 1901. Many commercial examples of the architectural style can be found all over Jacksonville's urban core today. Here are a few in and around Downtown Jacksonville. Read More
Is an urban park network centered around the hidden urban creeks and the riverfront of downtown Jacksonville becoming a reality? It certainly seems like it, especially if the city and local nonprofit Groundwork Jacksonville have anything to say about it. There has been plenty of significant movement to rehabilitate and revitalize the natural spaces of Hogans and McCoys Creek in order to activate the waterfront. Read More
