Urban Jacksonville

In this episode we welcome our new producer Jack Diablo and talk about the following topics City Budget – The Chopping Block, new parks for Brooklyn, Uptown Market (part 1 of 3). And if you missed the live show, you missed all the good talk before the show started. Get there early for insider info, that’s for the live viewers only.

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Urban Jacksonville Weekly #23 for 7/6/09

City Budget – The Chopping Block
What’s on Jacksonville city’s budget chopping block? (includes the infographic we were discussing)
raise millage rate
Historic Preservation – eliminated
T – no downtown association
JM – Joel as consultant, eliminate bureaucracy
JB – Ritz – eliminated
T – going to lose character
JB – lose special events
JM – scare tactic
JM – will pass (prediction)
JB – TU help people understand what it means
T – like $9 per household tax for school board raise

Brooklyn Parks
@mogdoy: #ujw. What boundaries define Brooklyn?
T – Brooklyn boundaries St. Johns River, I-95, LaNilla, Fuller-Warren
Metro Jax posted on both of these parks

Unity Park
UP – retention pond
Brooklyn Park development on hold
JM – Forest Avenue and entrance into city
T – Riverside Ave hard to cross
JM – make pedestrian friendly
T – Riv Ave screwed Brooklyn

Artist Walk
connects RAM to Riverside Park
T – add booths to RAM
JB – another tricky crosswalk
T – add streetlight
T – ride your bike
T – cops inside market not traffic
@mogdoy: #ujw. I always imagined that arts walk area as a burnside style skatepark.

Music section
All we really want to say about the music section is you have to tune in. And Jack is in a band called Chicken & Whiskey.

Uptown Market Part 1 of 3
T- open August-ish
T – Chef Eddie (BG)
T – killer breakfast menu
JM – grocery items?
T – staples only
T – beer and wine

Recommendations
Jonathan – jacksonville.com/jacksonville_blogs
Tony – UJ mixtape release party happy hour – midnight frozen drinks
Joey – Jax Observer radio

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I talked about the Riverside Artists Market (RAMarket) last year. It’s a huge all-weather market under the canopy of the Fuller Warren Bridge on Riverside Avenue. As the opening of the market approaches they are looking for input:

This Saturday, January 24th, 10am – 11:30am, the RAM Committee will host a workshop for interested artists, food vendors and farmers. The purpose of this workshop is to receive feedback on the market guidelines (including market layout, booth assignment policy and cost structure, Market policies and procedures).

If you plan on going please RSVP by Today to Teresa Fish at teresa@riversideavondale.org if you plan to attend. I would go ahead and RSVP even if it is past the date of just show up.

The meeting will be held at the First Guaranty Bank Building at 760 Riverside Ave, across the street from the market site. The meeting will start at 10am.

If you want to listen to more on the Riverside Artists Market it’s a topic of the new weekly radio show Urban Jacksonville Weekly.

More Information
Riverside Arts Market Logo Contest
Coming soon: Northbank Riverwalk Square’s Artists’ Market
http://www.riversideavondale.org/index.php?id=58