After years of promise, change is coming to one of Jacksonville’s most recognizable abandoned properties. Construction crews are now at the Regency Square Mall.
For more than a year, the Regency’s redevelopment has only been on paper. Now, the first physical signs of change are impossible to miss. While the wrecking ball hasn’t hit the mall yet, the infrastructure work happening today is already changing people’s attitudes about the property.
Shirley Olsen remembers shopping during Regency’s heyday…