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The Jaxson: Brooklyn's Retail Success Bucks Conventional Wisdom About Urban Core

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The Jaxson
Building permits are under city review for the Ferber Company’s Brooklyn Place retail center at Riverside Avenue and Leila Street. The 1.5-acre, multi-tenant project will add 12,500-square-feet of retail space to Brooklyn. ";

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

National chains like Panera and Chipotle are about to move into the neighborhood just Southwest of downtown, as the Jacksonville Business Journal reports.

Ennis Davis tells WJCT News Director Jessica Palombo all about it this week in The Jaxson on WJCT.

Read more on The Jaxson.

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