If you’re like us, a huge part of your last few days would have included the One Spark festival in downtown Jacksonville. We’re not going to spend much time explaining what it was – …

You really didn’t think that we’d go all the way through 2012 without posting an urban facelift project did you? If you’re in Jacksonville, then you should be familiar with the “jaguar building” as …

Grassroot efforts to bring excitement and events to activate downtown Jacksonville seems to be happening more and more, with the latest one happening this past weekend – Downtown’s First Food Truck Rally.  We were bummed …

Okay, confession time.  As huge of a proponent as I am for mass transit and the screaming and kicking that I do for Jacksonville to get on the fixed rail bandwagon (especially streetcars), I have …

We’re thrilled to both share some of the images that we presented in the Certificate of Appropriateness application for Julie’s Urban Grocery, our adaptive reuse (although it was originally a grocery when it was first …

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 …

For this facelift we asked our Urban Facelift Project fans on facebook what they would like to see 405 W Beaver Street become.  (click here for a map of 405 Beaver Street)  If you would …

We stopped into the Art Center while walking between a DVI Downtown Stakeholders meeting and lunch at the Burrito Gallery here in Jacksonville a few weeks ago and was really impressed with the Pod …

Jacksonville keeps trying to decide how it is going to spur development in the Urban Core. Our question would be, why are we so hesitant to look at what has been successful for other cities …

We recently began experimenting with using lighting in our renderings.  We’ve done it a few times in interior settings, but this is our first go at it in an exterior setting.  So we decided, as …