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In the spring of 2011 we responded to a request for proposals from the JAX Chamber, titled Downtown’s New Front Door, a Project to Inspire Revitalization. The Chamber knew that numerous building systems in their …
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Those of you who were at the SAMBA meeting last Thursday got a chance to see the beginning of this project being used as a demonstration. We have now completed it, and it took the …
Just in case you just found your way out from under a rock………..
Thanks to TED
We’re looking forward to presenting the Urban Facelift Project tomorrow night, Thursday July 9th, at the Springfield Area Merchants and Business Association (SAMBA). It’s our hope that Springfield area business owner’s can use the Urban …
Metro Jacksonville’s article on Jacksonville’s own seemingly abandoned urban ruin, Hogan’s Creek, reminded us of the Artificial Owl website. Artificial Owl is essentially an online catalog of some of the greatest abandoned man-made structures found …
For UFP # 8 we’ve traveled back south into the borders of Downtown Jacksonville, to Ocean Street. Anyone coming over the Main Street bridge into downtown should know exactly where this building is (hint: as …
We promise we will be getting back to some non-Springfield facelifts soon, but couldn’t resist doing an infill on the same block of past UFP #3 (1632-1636 N Main Street). Obviously, rehabilitating existing buildings …
When we first started doing the Urban Facelift Project, our hope was that we would eventually get submissions from individuals outside of content design group. Below are the first two independent submissions we have received, …
The Urban Facelift Project #6 is actually our first commissioned Facelift Project. A member of the Springfield community put a previous UFP, #3 (1632-1636 Main Street) in front of the owner of 1300 Main Street …
We began photographing buildings for the Urban Facelift Project in late April. All of the buildings that we chose for the first group of studies had obviously been allowed to be in a state …
We’ve finally gotten around to #5, at 937 main. We actually don’t have too much information about the building other than it’s actually part of the larger parcel, Claude Nolan Cadillac Building, but it actually …
In the spring of 2011 we responded to a request for proposals from the JAX Chamber, titled Downtown’s New Front Door, a Project to Inspire Revitalization. The Chamber knew that numerous building systems in their …
Sharing an office with Brown Dog Creative, a web design firm that also does a bit of graphic design as well, really has its ups and downs. The great thing is we get to …
We got word that the facelift we recommended for 4567 Palmer (click here for a map) had gone into effect and since the site isn’t too far from our office we decided to go over …
This facelift is going to be a little special…It’s going to be made a reality by two Springfield groups, and many volunteers and donations. SAMBA (Springfield Area Merchants and Business Association) and Preservation SOS (Save …
