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Brentwood residents oppose liquor store opening across from school

Lydia Bell is the President of Metro Gardens Neighborhood Association. She and other residents are suing the city of Jacksonville over the construction of a morgue in their neighborhood. | Will Brown, Jacksonville Today
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Jacksonville Today
Lydia Bell is president of Metro Gardens Neighborhood Association. She and other residents are suing the city of Jacksonville over the construction of a morgue in their neighborhood.

A liquor store that’s set to open on Golfair Boulevard across from the KIPP VOICE Academy K-7 school has nearby residents up in arms.

Gurpeet Singh, who lives in St. Johns County, plans to open the store soon in the Northside Jacksonville neighborhood. Meanwhile members of the Metro Gardens Neighborhood Association are opposed to the idea that the liquor store is the best way to revitalize a neighborhood that has been beset by blight.

Neighborhood association President Lydia Bell says residents were not properly notified about the store in time to try to stop it. They plan to boycott the business.

Read the rest of this story at Jacksonville Today, part of WJCT Public Media.