Day: November 19, 2018

  • Downtown Revitalization: Are we beating a dead horse?

    Downtown “revitalization” has been a topic in City Hall for as long as I can remember. In the 1940s, Mayor Haydon Burns led an effort to clean up the city, especially the waterfront, where aged and unsightly docks ruined the view of the magnificent river. Burns parlayed that into “The Jacksonville Story,” which earned him…