Latest from Neighborhoods
Latest Neighborhoods articles from Jacksonville, FL
Suburban Jacksonville: Ortega Forest
Metro Jacksonville explores the modern version of the Isle of Ortega: Ortega Forest.
Read More
Old Ortega Historic District
Metro Jacksonville explores a neighborhood that was designed by prominent architect, Henry J. Klutho and recently designated as Jacksonville's third nationally recognized historic district: Old Ortega.
Read More
Suburban Jacksonville: Exploring Cedar Hills
Cedar Hills is a unique neighborhood that was developed during Jacksonville's transition from an urban to a suburban dominated community 60 years ago.
Read More
Urban Neighborhoods: The Historic Downtown Core
The preservation of historic building fabric is essential to understanding our community's heritage, smart growth, and community walkability. With this in mind, Metro Jacksonville takes a look at the city's most unique historic environment: The walkable Downtown Core.
Read More
RiverTown Development Slowed by Recession
While the struggles of the urban core usually garner the most attention, a trip to Northern St. Johns County shows that the suburbs may have significant worries of their own.
Read More
Edward Waters College
Anchoring Mid-Westside, Edward Waters College was founded in 1866 to educate freed former slaves and is the oldest black college in Florida.
Read More
Urban Neighborhoods: Norwood
Metro Jacksonville explores the Metro North neighborhood known as Norwood.
Read More
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,...
Read More
Urban Parks: Cathedral Park
Formerly a part of the city's old burial grounds, Cathedral Park may be the best maintained park in Downtown Jacksonville.
Read More
Urban Neighborhoods: Panama Park
Metro Jacksonville explores the Metro North neighborhood known as Panama Park.
Read More