Lopez-Cantera sells North Jacksonville property, pursues Westside project
Former Florida Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera’s company sold JAX Airport Logistics Center in North Jacksonville the first week of January as it pursues development of a business project in Westside. Through JAX Industrial Three Ltd., Lopez-Cantera sold the 30.18-acre logistics center at 14825 International Airport...
Downtown Jacksonville South Bank Residences in permit review at $150 million
Six years in the making, Miami-based The Related Group’s South Bank Residences project is in city permitting review at an estimated project cost of $150 million. The two residential towers of 25 and eight stories with an attached parking garage are planned at 835 Museum Circle on the Downtown Jacksonville Southbank...
Baptist Health planning nearly $110 million hotel on Downtown Southbank
Baptist Health is planning to add a 15-story, nearly $110 million hotel to its campus on the Downtown Southbank, a representative told a Jacksonville City Council committee Jan. 12. Land-use and governmental affairs attorney Steve Diebenow of Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow, who is representing Baptist, said the...
Police investigate Northside shooting; video shows officer chasing suspect in Jacksonville
Police are investigating a shooting on Jacksonville’s Northside after a man allegedly pointed a gun at officers Sunday night near East 22nd and North Main Streets.
Projected Shands Bridge project completes earlier than expected, eliminating need for another weekend closure
The Shands Bridge project, initially slated for a two-weekend closure, wrapped up ahead of schedule, sparing drivers another weekend of detours between Clay and St. Johns counties. The Florida Department of Transportation anticipated the construction to initially take two weekends to complete, but after 56 hours of...
FIRST ALERT WEATHER: A chilly week ahead
Temperatures in the 50s… cloudy Northeast Florida… partly cloudy Southeast Georgia.
1 dead, 1 critically injured in shooting on Jacksonville’s Southside
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A man died and another was critically injured in a shooting Sunday afternoon on Jacksonville’s Southside, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. According to JSO, around 3:30 p.m., officers responded to a shooting on Beachwood Boulevard. When police arrived, they found two men who...
William McNeil Jr.: Jacksonville Cop ‘Reprimanded’ For Failing To Mention Punch In Report, Cleared...
William McNeil Jr. became the talk of the internet last year when a viral video captured by his cell phone showed him being attacked by a Jacksonville, Fla., police officer during a traffic stop. The overly aggressive cop, now identified as Officer D.J. Bowers, broke McNeil’s car window and punched him in the face...
Residents in Clay County apartments upset over trash not being picked up for weeks
Residents at The Park at Blanding apartments say they are living in a “stinking” situation as mounds of uncollected garbage are just another piece of the problem.
Sopchoppy Man from Wakulla County Arrested for Alleged Attempt to Entice Minor in Jacksonville
A Wakulla County man has been arrested on a charge of attempted enticement of a minor. Richard Lynn Simmons Jr., 36, of Sopchoppy, was arrested following a criminal complaint alleging he used a cellphone and the internet to communicate with an individual he believed to be the parent of an 11-year-old child while...

















