BrooklynJax

05/06/2022

New proposed mixed-use building at the corner of Park Street and Forrest Street proposed by an Atlanta-based developer. This property will serve as the gateway to the Park Street commercial district corridor, which will also include a section of the Emerald Trail.

The Downtown Development Review Board's (DDRB) May 12, 2022 meeting will be a busy one. Here are seven major downtown developments seeking conceptual or final DDRB approval.

01/31/2022

The Jaxson is hosting a walking tour of the Brooklyn and Five Points neighborhoods this Saturday. Info on tickets can be found here:

Five Points and Brooklyn are two Urban Core neighborhoods full of culture, history and life. On Saturday, Feb. 5, join The Jaxson for a guided walking tour exploring the past, present and future of two of Jacksonville's hottest neighborhoods.

12/13/2021

Here we go again. Despite hiring another firm, these newest designers have found some Anywhere USA 1980's clip art to somehow represent neighborhoods like Brooklyn, LaVilla, South Jacksonville and the Northbank... which have their own unique identities going back so far as the 1700's and 1800's. Another $150,000 of taxpayers money have been lit on fire faster than the Great Fire of 1901. Make it stop!!!

Survey can be accessed here:
https://selfserve.decipherinc.com/survey/selfserve/544/211200?list=CS1&fbclid=IwAR1k_2tZ_X7XANLNV1y3O-5-jn6cbRwVad-9_RxkWDW2TNIIHMfAlpocCR4 #?

10/26/2021

Simple changes can take the proposal to redevelop the former Times Union site from looking less like St Johns Town Center (SJTC actually has wider sidewalks than what's being proposed here), to a more appropriate design for an urban neighborhood like BrooklynJax.

One Riverside Avenue, the development planned to replace the former Florida Times-Union headquarters, will likely be up for final site plan approval by the Downtown Development Review Board in November. Here are four simple, common sense ways to activate the pedestrian experience throughout the deve...

05/21/2021

Please take this survey so that generic garbage like the image on the right is not plastered everywhere throughout our neighborhood.

On the left is an actual logo which celebrates the fact that BrooklynJax has been a neighborhood contributing to Jacksonville's uniqueness for over 150 years. Brooklyn was an important fort that defended Jacksonville during the Civil War. After the war, it became a diverse neighborhood where freed slaves built a new life together while just a few blocks away the titans of Jacksonville's industry built lavish estates along the river. It was home to colorful characters that owned everything from candy factories to radio stations. It was where the streetcars that fueled the development of Jacksonville's core city would emanate from. It was where journalists from the Times Union to the Florida Star would speak truth to power. It was where Southern Rock legends like Lynard Skynard and .38 Special owned music studios. It was where all walks of life would gather in places like Tads or Fat Rounds. It was where homegrown Fortune 500 companies were born. Jacksonville would not be Jacksonville without Brooklyn.
Please do not let the City of Jacksonville allow generic, soulless garbage be the face of our community.

*The irony is not lost that this proposed branding celebrates the 'arts' The City tore down the last art studio in the neighborhood over 20 years ago to make way for a six lane roadway that decades later still has not lived up to its predicted automobile traffic counts.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/dtjax-brand-survey

08/14/2020

A unique restaurant space will he coming to a major intersection in the neighborhood, across from the ongoing Fidelity campus expansion.

A vacant lot could become the next infill mixed-use development headed to Brooklyn.

05/31/2020

A new restaurant is coming to Unity Plaza and 220 Riverside

Another restaurant is headed to Brooklyn. With a significant amount of infill development taking place around it, life may be returning to Unity Plaza.

05/20/2019

Details about the new affordable housing development breaking ground in the neighborhood.

The Vestcor Companies has plans for a 133-unit apartment building in Brooklyn. Here's a look at their May 9, 2019 presentation to the Downtown Development Review Board for conceptual approval.

05/17/2019

A look at the efforts to preserve Brooklyn's last link to the post-Civil War development boom which saw men and women of color build the neighborhood from the ground up.

As part of this year’s state budget, Gov. Ron DeSantis is considering more than half-a-million dollars to build a park in Arlington that would honor the

05/09/2019

Renderings of the proposed workforce housing apartment complex in the neighborhood.

The Vestcor Companies has plans for a 133-unit apartment building in Brooklyn. Here's a look at their May 9, 2019 presentation to the Downtown Development Review Board for conceptual approval.

04/12/2019

The neighborhood's retail prospects are discussed on this WJCT segment.

The longstanding conventional wisdom among developers is that Jacksonville’s urban core can’t support retail, but Brooklyn’s success is proving that wrong.

03/28/2019

The first leg of the Emerald Trail begins in BrooklynJax!

Groundwork Jacksonville earns City Council approval of Emerald Trail Master Plan. Plan will connect thirty miles of new and existing trails throughout the urban core.