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In a new series, Metro Jacksonville takes a step back to listen to, promote, and discuss the editorials, personal accounts, and vocal opinions of some of the key players in the preservation and progression of our community. This week, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid (JALA) Executive Director Michael Figgins explains why a strong legal aid program important to Jacksonville.

Metro Jacksonville visits the downtown of a small South Florida community that focused on the arts to successfully carve out an urban niche in a metropolitan area with more than five million residents: Delray Beach.

Plans are in the works for the urban core's next mixed-use, multi-family residential community. Proposed by NAI Hallmark Partners and Bristol Development Group, 220 Riverside will be constructed adjacent to Unity Plaza at Forest Street and Riverside Avenue.

In 2011, the total number of cities with bikesharing and the total number of bikesharing stations in the country have more than doubled. How long will Jacksonville wait before becoming the next community to attempt to address mobility by methods other than additional roadway construction?

Pieces of Jacksonville history have been donated to revive another part of the city’s past as the last tower marking the borders of the 86-year-old San Jose Estates community is restored by the Rotary Club of San Jose.

Tiles to rebuild the tower roof came from the Epping Forest Yacht Club’s boat house, also part of the failed 1925 development once marked by four towers on San Jose Boulevard.

The club took on the restoration in 2008, and $3,000 in donations plus about 450 tiles means a roof missing for decades will be replaced, said club tower chairman Jim Culp.

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The Cottages at Greenland is a 160 unit townhome style condominium tucked among 100 year old oak trees on 38 acres of beautiful property in the heart of Mandarin. The Cottages at Greenland is a gated community designed with concrete block construction and a colonial architectureture to blend with the natural landscape. The community is located in southern Duval County on Greenland Road east of Old ...

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The community response to the Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry Thanksgiving Basket Challenge was “amazing,” with about 600 baskets donated and distributed, Sue Glawe, project coordinator said.

“That is the most Thanksgiving baskets ever donated to BEAM,” Glawe said.

Inside one donated basket was a note for its receiver that read, “Many years ago, I received a thanksgiving bag when I needed it. I pray someday you can give to others also.”

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