Plans for a 9-story Hyatt Place hotel were recently submitted to the Downtown Development Review Board (DDRB). Plans for the 128-room hotel include a first floor restaurant and bar, a second floor pool deck and fitness center, and a rooftop patio and event space. The project would use on-street parking along Hogan Street and spaces in an existing adjacent five-year-old parking garage. However, what should not be lost and forgotten in time is the story of how this site was created to allow for 2018's infill hotel development. Read More
A Northbank site originally considered the front runner for JEA's proposed administrative headquarters is now being targeted for the development of a mini arts district. Read More
TEDxJacksonville has announced its on-stage lineup of speakers and musical performers for the 2018 conference, “Exchange: Conversations for the Curious,” on Saturday, October 20, at The Florida Theatre. This year’s annual conference features Anne Driscoll of the Irish Innocence Project, Mayo Clinic nanomedicine expert Dr. Joy Wolfram, London’s Ash Perrin who works with disadvantaged children around the world, ‘Augusta Savage’ exhibit curator Jeffreen Hayes and more. Read More
A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors, rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation. Today, Modern Cities highlights the life of the early 20th century's most notorious swindler, the guy that gave the Ponzi scheme its name: Jacksonville's one-time sign-painter Charles Ponzi. Read More
Ranked in the past by Princeton Review as the most beautiful college campus in the country, Florida Southern College (FSC) is home to the world's largest single-site collection of Frank Lloyd Wright architecture. Read More
