What happens when city after city makes the same expensive mistake in their quest to revitalize downtown? Here's a look at how another failed 1980s urban retail marketplace was converted into a new use: Orlando's Church Street Station. Read More
The mayor's office has used past public charettes on redeveloping the Jacksonville Landing held in 2014-15 to justify its controversial push to quickly bulldoze the building. But as the administration now acknowledges, that discussion never gave the public the chance to weigh in on adaptive reuse. Now that the Landing is in public hands, the public should have that chance before the city makes an expensive, irreversible decision. Read More
Jacksonville's landscape is full of historical nuggets. Here is a brief story about the past of a creek that thousands cross over on a daily basis: The plantation era rice fields of Beauclerc Bluff. Read More
Self storage isn't the only new development coming to Murray Hill. Two well known national chains are also preparing to make their mark on the popular historic neighborhood. Read More
