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Metro Jacksonville

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2007 Year in Review
« on: December 31, 2007, 02:31:53 AM »
2007 Year in Review



Metro Jacksonville takes a look back over 2007 to see where the year took us. In 2007 Jacksonville celebrated great successes and struggled with grand failures.

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avonjax

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Re: 2007 Year in Review
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2007, 11:35:58 AM »
Thanks for the recap.
Speaking of the Northbank Riverwalk. Will the repaired portion stay the way it is?
Any trees?
If so it is a horrible downgrade from the initial plan.
What's worse, is it is the ugliest part of the river front and needed some kind of landscaping to draw attention away from that terrible parking lot and the hideous court house.
If anyone has more info, let me know.
Thanks
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Re: 2007 Year in Review
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2007, 09:33:43 PM »
Great review.  2007 definately did not go the way we wanted it to, regarding downtown development.  Hopefully, we'll learn from our mistakes and the market and move forward.
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Re: 2007 Year in Review
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2007, 09:51:43 PM »
I agree.  We should come together and move forward with groups and people that want to move forward with us and not just for their own personal gain.
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Re: 2007 Year in Review
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2008, 11:52:55 AM »
The Times Union year in review follows a similar theme.

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It was a challenging year

By MARY KELLI PALKA, The Times-Union

Even more so than its predecessor, 2007 was a deadly year in Jacksonville. The city's homicide numbers surpassed the previous year. And an industrial explosion and a building collapse left five families without loved ones during the holidays. It also was a year for reverberating property tax changes, a leadership change for Duval County schools and a grand jury investigation into allegations of wrongdoing in City Hall.

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/010108/met_230521121.shtml
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