Jacksonville Landing

In March, the Maverick’s music venue in the Jacksonville Landing underwent some major renovations.

After 28 years in operation, the Jacksonville Maritime Heritage Center says it will decommission its museum inside the Jacksonville Landing by the end of the year.

Museum board members are scrambling to ship artifacts to their original owners and other area exhibits.

We discuss the week's news stories with our roundtable of local journalists: Nate Monroe, Florida Times-Union reporter; Matt Shaw, Folio Weekly editor; and Tim Gibbons, Jacksonville Business Journal editor.

Topics include the search for missing toddler Lonzie Barton, Hemming Park funding issues, anti-abortion protests in Jacksonville, and more.

We also speak with Early Learning Coalition Executive Director Susan Main and Director of Communications Chad Sykes-Burns about their latest endeavors.

The Downtown Investment Authority, or DIA, will hold the second in a series of public workshops on the future of the Jacksonville Landing Wednesday night. We speak with Aundra Wallace, CEO of the Downtown Investment Authority, about how the public can voice their opinion on new design concepts for the iconic downtown site.

What does the worst urban fire in the history of the southeastern U.S. have in common with The Jacksonville Landing? In a word: opportunity. WJCT's occasional commentator Jay Solomon explains in this edition of "With All Due Respect."

Within two weeks of the great fire that gutted 146 blocks of Downtown Jacksonville in 1901, reconstruction was underway. Architects, drawn by the blank canvas the smoldering ashes represented, came to town and created the future.

The results of the August primary election and its historically low voter turnout are making news this week.

One Spark is a festival for creators to get funding for their projects, but as one local business can attest, being a One Spark creator isn't all about dollars and cents.

Jacksonville Landing owner Toney Sleiman and Mayor Alvin Brown both want to build an entirely new plaza at the waterfront location.

A public workshop is set for tonight looking at the future of The Jacksonville Landing.

Elton Rivas is the co-creator of the One Spark Festival. Last week I sat down with him and learned “how to One Spark.” Rivas told me he was excited about how this will transform Jacksonville.

“I think honestly we are most excited about the things we don’t know [are] going to happen," says Rivas. "We have heard some rumblings of some really cool stuff to put on during One Spark. We are just really excited to see this come to life and see what our community can be.”