The City of Jacksonville put on its annual Freedom, Fanfare and Fireworks show in Downtown Jacksonville to celebrate Independence Day. Will future fireworks displays have to be cut back in the face of a budget crisis? 

The Jacksonville Farmer's Market relocated to new facilities adjacent to its previous site in February 2007. This is Metro Jacksonville's first photo tour of the market with everything in full swing.

While many are familiar with the rise and fall of LaVilla, not many know about Jacksonville's other historic African-American suburb and now inner city district... The Eastside.

The Cathedral District may be the urban core's most overlooked and forgotten pedestrian friendly neighborhood.  Due to several years of neglect and the destruction of building fabric for surface parking lots, outside of parking for Jaguars games, there's not much reason to walk it on foot. Despite this, what remains are gridded streets, a centralized location, significant unique architecture and available land to convert this area into one of Jacksonville's premier urban addresses.

On Sunday, May 6th, the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra performed in Klutho Park as part of the Springfield Heritage Days event.

The Springfield Heritage Throwback Baseball Game was held on May 5th in Klutho Park. It was put together over a series of months through the efforts of many Springfield residents. Originally, SPAR had intended to put on a softball game for the weekend event, and a group of residents thought to take it to the next level. Initially we were going to only play softball in the old time uniforms, but several people thought we could pull off a baseball game with vintage equipment as well.

Although not as heavily promoted as it should be, San Marco Square is an artsy shopping, dining and entertainment district just south of downtown. It has become one of Metropolitan Jacksonville's trendiest  shopping and dining destinations.

The extremely controversial and long delayed Dancey Terrace has finally opened a model home to the public. These twenty-four 1,000 square foot bungalows were slated for demolition, but were saved by half of the Springfield constituents (to the dismay of the other half).  

The Downtown Art Walk, which is held the first Wednesday of each month, had a strong turnout. Despite this strong showing, Tony Allegretti was expecting 50,000 people and a few celebrities, so he must be a little disappointed right now. Maybe next month... 

Opened in the mid 1950's, and after going through a period of decline from 1988 to 1994, the 630,000sf Gateway Mall is well on its way to making a comeback.  While you won't find the Gaps and Cheesecake Factories of the world here, you will discover a center that has been recreated to serve the needs of the surrounding communities.