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Living in Jacksonville => Culture => Museums => Topic started by: Metro Jacksonville on February 12, 2016, 03:00:04 AM
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A Look Inside Downtown's Ritz Theatre & Museum
(http://photos.metrojacksonville.com/Neighborhoods/Jacksonville-Sugar-Hill/i-swppR3z/0/L/P1200614-L.jpg)
The Ritz Theater has stood in the historic Jacksonville neightborhood of LaVilla for years, but what history lies behind its walls?
Read More: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/2016-feb-a-look-inside-downtowns-ritz-theatre-museum
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I've been to a show there. Very cool place. It would be nice to see some things spring up around it. Right now there's a whole lot of nothingness.
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^This is Exhibit A on when revitalizing a historic district, you don't just save the best buildings and demolish the rest. The Theatre is awesome, but I wouldn't exactly call the area around it...happening. It's aware between two surface freeways (State and Union) with no buildings nearby (save for the Jacksonville Urban League office building).