Urban News and Linkage – Gaming Room Edition
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Found on a wall in San Marco
Here is what you should be reading from around the local news and blogosphere:
The Hill is reporting on the new gaming machine joint that opened on the First Block in Murray Hill.
This gaming room is comprised of 60 automated machines, and is not to my knowledge affiliated with the proposed billiard parlor located two doors down at the old Woods Pharmacy.
Flog writes that downtown Jacksonville is overhauling it’s parking meter policy to be more user friendly. Ron Barton and Suzanne Jenkins are the legislative heroes but downtown businesses are the real heroes. Too little too late for Moon Colony Razorblade.
The decision comes in response to nearly a year’s worth of continuous, vehement protest from a dozen or so downtown merchants, who say the urban core’s parking meters should have limits of at least three hours (if they must be kept at all), and that parking enforcement employees should relax.
Karen Brune Mathis says Downtown should look at neighbors
Try as it might, it watches its neighboring neighborhoods flourish, to growing degrees, while it struggles. There’s Riverside to the southwest, Springfield to the north and San Marco across the river on the Southbank.
Metro Jacksonville lists 10 Reasons to Think Local – Buy Local – Be Local
