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Downtown Jacksonville Seeing More Foot Traffic In Pandemic Recovery

A view of Downtown Jacksonville from Friendship Fountain.
Bill Bortzfield
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WJCT News
A view of Downtown Jacksonville from Friendship Fountain.

Visitor foot traffic in Downtown Jacksonville is rebounding from the COVID-19 pandemic, up 24% for the first two quarters of 2021 over the same period a year ago, according to the 2020-21 State of Downtown Report released Sept. 27.

The Downtown Investment Authority and Downtown Vision Inc. produced the report.

The report said foot traffic dropped in March 2020 when the pandemic struck and total visits that year were 44% lower than in 2019.

The report shows there is a distance before Downtown reaches pre-pandemic levels. Visits by week at the end of June were 345,000, down from 454,000 in January 2020.

In 2018, there were 23 million Downtown visitors, more than the 21.3 million in 2019 and 11.9 million in 2020.

Read the full story at JaxDailyRecord.com.