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Metro Jacksonville was founded by Steve Congro, Dan Herbin, Ennis Davis, Kevin Connor, and Stephen Dare. [1] The site launched on March 13, 2006 as a weblog with the intention to educate the public on issues that matter to cities.
Metropolitan Park is a 32-acre (130,000 m 2) [2] urban waterfront park and concert venue located on the north bank of the St. Johns River in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida. [3] It is projected to be the eastern terminus of the northbank Jacksonville Riverwalk. [4]
The Jacksonville–Kingsland–Palatka, FL–GA Combined Statistical Area (CSA) had a population of 1,733,937 in 2020 and was the 34th largest CSA in the United States. The Jacksonville metropolitan area is the 40th largest in the country and the fourth largest in the State of Florida, behind the Miami, Tampa, and Orlando metropolitan areas.
The following list contains all urban areas in the United States and Canada containing at least one team in any of the six major leagues. The number of teams in the Big Four leagues (B4) (NFL, [2] MLB, [3] NBA, [4] and NHL [5]) and the Big Six leagues (B6) (aforementioned leagues plus MLS [6] and CFL) [7] are included in the table below.
Jacksonville has recorded four days with measurable snow since 1911, most recently a one-inch (2.5 cm) snowfall in December 1989, [88] flurries in December 2010, [89] and 1/10 of an inch of snow in January, 2025. [90] Jacksonville has only received one direct hit from a hurricane since 1871. The rarity of direct strikes is attributed to chance ...
Fleming Island ranks among the wealthiest zip codes in the Jacksonville area, placing #2 after Ponte Vedra Beach in the March 2013 Jacksonville Business Journal article. [6] In 2021 it was ranked number one in Jacksonville metro in Stacker. [7] The Clay County Public Library headquarters is on Fleming Island, as are the Clay County Soccer Club ...
The club has been owned and managed by a subsidiary of Gate Petroleum since 2003. [22] In September 2017, Hurricane Irma's storm surge caused major flooding in Jacksonville's downtown area. These events impacted the parking garage of 1 Independent Square, which was briefly closed. The building reopened on September 29.
Southside, or South Jacksonville, is, along with Northside, Westside, and Arlington, one of the larger sections of Jacksonville. Originally the name "South Jacksonville" applied to the area to the south of Downtown across the St. Johns River, a neighborhood now typically called San Marco. [21] Today, however, the term covers a much larger region.