Southside's JT Butler Boulevard corridor is North Florida's best example of an Edge City - a term coined by Joel Garreau to describe a new form of 20th-centruy development featuring auto-centric, dense office and residential populations located at or near freeway intersections and airports. The area along JT Butler Boulevard continues to grow with over 3,750 multi-family residential units either approved and/or under construction joining the development of over 100,000 square feet of retail at Town Center Promenade, 30,000 square feet of retail at The Crossing, 500,000 square feet of retail at The Strand, 160,857 of office space at Town Center One and up to 250,000 square feet of office space at Southside Quarter.
Southside is North Florida's best example of an overpopulated, under-planned hellscape of the worst kind.
