RAP Produces Award Winning Video

[Metro Jacksonville]

RAP Produces Award Winning Video



The Riverside Avondale Historic District in Jacksonville, Florida, is the most architecturally diverse in the state. This video details how the neighborhood began and grew to prominence, and also explores its intervening travails. Today, largely through the efforts of Riverside Avondale Preservation, the non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and protecting the neighborhood, it's a vibrant, diverse community with an outstanding quality of life.

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[thelakelander]

Great video.  What were city planners smoking in 1990?  Whoever proposed a series of expressways through the neighborhood and a homeless shelter on Willowbranch should have been tar & feathered.

[fsujax]

It was probably some consultant the City hired! I wonder what RAP would think of reintroducing streetcars to the neighborhood?

[thelakelander]

I know they would accept the reintroduction of streetcars over widening Park Street & Riverside Avenue to deal with future roadway deficiencies.

[grimss]

The expressways would have been absolutely devastating to our neighborhood. Like turning Post and College into one-way streets during WWII (the two-way re-conversion of these a few years back was hotly debated in this forum), the proposals were simply more proof that the city primarily views Riverside and Avondale as convenient conduits for traffic between NAS JAX, Orange Park and downtown.

[Kay]

It was probably some consultant the City hired! I wonder what RAP would think of reintroducing streetcars to the neighborhood?

We're in favor of bringing street cars back--at least our parking and transportation committee is in favor of it.  We have not vetted it yet with the community.

[fieldafm]

It was probably some consultant the City hired! I wonder what RAP would think of reintroducing streetcars to the neighborhood?

We're in favor of bringing street cars back--at least our parking and transportation committee is in favor of it.  We have not vetted it yet with the community.

Kay
Around this time last year, a nice young lady from JTA was on board the Riverside Trolley conducting a ridership study.  She specifically stated they were looking at expanding to a Saturday service to serve RAM patrons, and also looking to expand the route to include the Shoppes of Avondale. 
Have you heard of anything relating to Saturday RAM service and/or extending the route to include Avondale?

[mtraininjax]

Very cool presentation! Well Done!

[Kay]

fieldafm:  I have not heard anything but will ask our RAM folks if they know something.

[Timkin]

Awesome presentation.  Enforces even more the need to keep the few remaining buildings we have that represent days gone by. 

[JabbaTheHuff]

RAP sure didn't step up to the plate when they allowed developers to build that atrocious one-story medical office   (on Oak before the Publix shopping center, between Goodwin and Copeland)  that sits among some of the oldest houses in Riverside and looks nothing like the structures around them.

That medical office now sits abandoned.

[fieldafm]

Awesome.  Thanks Kay!

[grimss]

JabbaTheHuff: Wasn't that office building built right around the time that the district was formed? Trying to remember when I got to town and when that happened . . . the former Lyerly Clinic building, right?

[JabbaTheHuff]

JabbaTheHuff: Wasn't that office building built right around the time that the district was formed? Trying to remember when I got to town and when that happened . . . the former Lyerly Clinic building, right?

No, it was just an empty lot before. It was built around 8-10 years ago, IIRC, right around the time the Publix shopping center was being built...

[trigger]

Loved that video about my neighborhood! Thanks!