School may be out for the summer in Duval County, but a discussion surrounding a liquor store coming soon beside a charter school in Brentwood is just heating up — as a city proposal to buy the property is withdrawn and another is filed.
Council member Al Ferraro had filed legislation that would have had the city buy the property from a St. Johns-based family business by using dollars in the Capital Improvement Plan earmarked for removing the Confederate monument in Springfield Park. His quickly withdrawn bill also would have created a community center in the store’s place.
Ferraro's proposal did not go over well with neighborhood residents, though, despite their vocal organized opposition to the liquor store so close to the school.
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