LaVilla

The building at 525 W. Beaver St. is believed to have been Florida's first funeral home. It will be transformed into The Raven, a nod to writer Edgar Allan Poe.

City officials want to make a portion of the community a federally recognized National Historic District.

The Jacksonville City Council agreed Aug. 24 to give 3.45 acres of city land in LaVilla for a town house development near Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park.…

Jacksonville could soon lose another historic landmark – not from demolition, but from relocation.WJCT News partner the Jacksonville Daily Record reports…

Can you picture this? You and a friend are deciding where to meet for lunch near Downtown Jacksonville, and she says, “Hmm, how about somewhere in…

The newly opened Crazy Beans Coffee at the heart of JTA’s Regional Transportation Center is believed to be the first new restaurant to open in LaVilla in…

Municipal utility JEA paid almost $2.45 million March 18 for 2.27 acres in LaVilla targeted for its “hardened” secondary headquarters.JEA bought the…

Downtown Investment Authority board members signaled March 15 they still want for-sale town houses in the historic LaVilla neighborhood west of…

Clad all in black, including a black face mask, a man named Daryl was handing out trash bags to the residents of the tent city that occupies a LaVilla…

Citing health and safety violations, the city of Jacksonville is fencing off a LaVilla block near Downtown where homeless people have been living in an…