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1 week ago | 
jaxdailyrecord.com | Ric Anderson
Leaders of a special committee of the Jacksonville City Council are discussing a proposal that would allow the Eastside neighborhood near EverBank Stadium to capitalize on increased tax revenue it stands to generate via the $40 million in funding it will receive from the city’s community benefits agreement with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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1 week ago | 
jaxdailyrecord.com | Ric Anderson
The head of the Jacksonville Transportation Authority says a $147 million federal grant for the city’s Emerald Trail is at risk and that the JTA is working to protect it. Speaking May 2 to the JAX Chamber Downtown Council, JTA CEO Nat Ford said local officials are “very concerned” about the grant, which was awarded to the city in the spring of 2024 under the Joe Biden administration.
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2 weeks ago | 
jaxdailyrecord.com | Ric Anderson
A marina named for former Jacksonville mayor Hans Tanzler would fill a squarish inlet of the St. Johns River between Liberty and Market streets in the 200 block of East Bay Street under a conceptual plan up for discussion May 8 by the Downtown Development Review Board. The DDRB agenda calls it the “Liberty Street Basin Marina – CIP Project (No Action).” The renderings by HDR Engineering and Pond & Co. call it the city of Jacksonville Liberty Street Marina.
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2 weeks ago | 
jaxdailyrecord.com | Ric Anderson
Developer Toney Sleiman says his frustrations with the city of Jacksonville’s construction permitting process began at age 20 when his father started sending him to City Hall to obtain building permits for the family’s real estate company. Since then, decades have passed and Sleiman has been through the process an untold number of times as a second-generation principal of Jacksonville-based Sleiman Enterprises.
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2 weeks ago | 
jaxdailyrecord.com | Ric Anderson
A Downtown building tied to two prominent Jacksonville architects could return to life as a bar and lounge with overhead loft apartments under a service availability request filed with JEA. The request is to determine the service availability for 29 E. Adams St., a two-story building adjacent to Indochine Downtown restaurant and the soon-to-open Dorothy’s Downtown restaurant, which co-occupy 21 E. Adams St.According to city documents, the building was designed by architect Henry J.
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2 weeks ago | 
jaxdailyrecord.com | Ric Anderson
The city of Jacksonville has a new chief building inspector, and his former boss signaled that he moved to a similar position for the city of Atlantic Beach. On April 28, Mayor Donna Deegan’s office confirmed that Charles “Chuck” Gibson was serving as acting director of the city Building Inspection Division pending Council confirmation of his appointment as chief. Gibson comes to the position after serving as building inspections manager and deputy building official.
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2 weeks ago | 
jaxdailyrecord.com | Ric Anderson
The chair of the Jacksonville City Council’s special DOGE committee says auditors are seeking explanations from city administrators as to why some $90 million in capital improvement projects remain on the books despite there being no spending on them for well over a year. Speaking to the Jacksonville Kiwanis Club on April 28, Council member Ron Salem said auditors found dozens of projects in the city’s Capital Improvement Plan for which there had been no activity in at least 17 months.
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2 weeks ago | 
jaxdailyrecord.com | Ric Anderson
The RiversEdge development on Jacksonville’s Downtown Southbank reached a milestone recently with move-ins of the first residents at the 32-acre property. Downtown Investment Authority CEO Lori Boyer confirmed April 28 that residents were moving into town homes on the site, which has been the subject of redevelopment proposals dating to a decade ago. Pennsylvania-based Toll Brothers has completed a set of town homes along Prudential Drive and is building more.
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2 weeks ago | 
jaxdailyrecord.com | Ric Anderson
With the Jacksonville City Council poised to consider two options for the city to acquire a LaVilla office building to provide for the University of Florida graduate campus, proponents of both approaches are laying out their arguments. Here is a look, through the eyes of leading supporters of each alternative, at the pros and cons of a plan to purchase the Interline Brands Inc.
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3 weeks ago | 
jaxdailyrecord.com | Ric Anderson
In a place that prides itself on its soaring pines, venerable live oaks and wide variety of other trees, perhaps it’s no surprise that the city of Jacksonville charges developers who remove trees from construction sites and don’t replace them. The fee, known as a “contribution” in city documents, is based on a multifaceted formula that involves the city charter, a related ordinance, the size of a removed tree and whether it is considered native, among other elements.
