OP ends and Middleburg Begins where Blanding quits having a strip mall on every square inch of land lol. What year did you leave? Jax has a new baseball field, arena and of course the stadium for the Jags, who in my opinion we don't deserve because if they lose we quit supporting them. Just the way this town works. We love it when they win. I'm happy to see em make the 1st round of the playoffs myself.
The southbank does have a big walk along the river but nothing ever was really built there. We have the Landing of course right next to the Main Street Bridge on the northbank. Jax has changed so much in the last 6-7 years it's crazy. I never thought we'd have those huge flyovers on the main roads but we do. Saves time in traffic but are they ugly or what? The developers just went crazy here in the 80's and 90's and IMO ruined a lot of nice areas. No low land areas were sacred believe me. As Debbie mentioned Cecil Field closed a few years ago and they built some business parks there and some new bizzes came in. They also built a huge equestrian area and swimming facility. My daughter shows horses and we thought we'd hit the jackpot when we got the EC but it's so expensive to show there we rarely go. All this new stuff was funded with a 1/2 cent sales tax which I voted for. We got some beautiful buildings and stuff but we have to pay an arm and a leg for concerts, football and all that so what good did it do. The Jax Suns stadium is really nice (AA Dodgers Affiliate) and that is still affordable but the rest sucks. There is a really nice campground near Mayport NAS but when they figured out that 1/2 cent tax wasn't enough they went from $17 a night to $37 a night ($32 for Duval residents) becuase they needed more mullah. Haven't camped there since because that's a rip off. Nice place but no, I won't support it when I pay boo koo taxes for my house. It won't get better lol, so I won't wait for it to change.
