A new plan for a three story Daily's gas station and Bold City Brewery craft brewery and restaurant has been developed. This version shifts the building to the intersection of Bay and Broad streets, the southern gateway to the historic LaVilla neighborhood. The project will be considered for final approval at the July 27th Downtown Development Review Board (DDRB) meeting. Take a look at the before and after and let us know what you think! Read More
Jaxlore is a column by Bill Delaney on the folklore, urban legends and local traditions of Jacksonville and the First Coast. In honor of spooky season, today's column brings together a list of the region's best known ghosts, cryptids, mysterious metal orbs and everything else that goes bump in the night. Read More
North High Street, through Columbus, Ohio's Short North Arts District, is a great example of a walkable, mixed-use urban core commercial corridor. A corridor that Jacksonville's Main Street, Edgewood Avenue, Broad Street and State & Union Streets can aspire to become. Here are a few sights and scenes from a July 2023 walk through the Short North Arts District. Read More
For more than a century, Northeast Florida has been an epicenter of passenger rail operations in Florida. Fifty years after the closure of the Jacksonville Terminal, several former passenger railroad depots can be found across the landscape. Here are ten historic train stations that still stand.
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What is now recognized as the neighborhood of San Jose, four miles south of downtown Jacksonville, was originally envisioned to be a grand master-planned development. Read More