Downtown Development

Long-awaited plans to build a new convention center in downtown Jacksonville could finally be moving ahead.Private developers are now being asked to…

Friday on First Coast Connect our weekly Media Roundtable featured Florida Times-Union reporter Dan Scanlan, WJCT business analyst John Burr and Beaches…

A proposed downtown Jacksonville hotel Thursday took another step toward becoming reality.The Hotel Indigo won conceptual approval from the city’s…

A group of business owners is trying to drum up interest in what they’re calling Jacksonville’s “Rail Yard District” just west of downtown.The Jaxson…

The heart of Jacksonville’s downtown could be getting a hotel, apartment space, retail, offices, dining options and a rooftop bar.Jacksonville’s Downtown…

It’s a new year, and I'm predicting big things for Northeast Florida.Among them: the first sighting of a boom economy in a decade, high consumer…

City officials celebrated a construction milestone, officially “topping off” the soon-to-be steakhouse Friday.Building developers raised an American flag…

This could be the last week a popular downtown eatery has its doors open on Adams Street. The quirky sandwich shop Chomp Chomp is relocating to Avondale…

Around 70 "creators" have signed up to compete in next month’s much shorter Jacksonville One Spark Festival.The projects will compete for eyes, investment…

The local activist group Families of Slain Children held a conference Monday about the ongoing issue of gun violence in Jacksonville following the…