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This is a preview of the Uptown Market in Springfield which is now open. Rejoice the new urban grocery, deli, market.

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Looking through the window at Uptown Market in Springfield, Jacksonville’s newest urban market and deli. If you want to hear more, listen to this episode Urban Jacksonville Weekly about Uptown Market. You can also read First major project on Main Street in Springfield in 40 years.

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Summertime In the City w/ Tough Junkie

• Summertime in the City page on Urban Jacksonville
• 4th year
• Hip Hop Festival, DIY vibe
• Tough Junkie goes on first (10pm)
• will start on time, probably
• lineup – Edan (psychedelic hip hop), Dagha, Paten Locke, Willie Evans Jr., Dillon
• Saturday – breakdancing at RAM, pizza party at BBB (1520 N. Main St.)
• Saturday night – Shantytown show: tons of folks playing
• Tough Junkie’s new CD available on toughjunkie.com, iTunes
• TJ – “goal is to get in trouble”

Uptown Market Part Deux

• skipping it!
• set to open Aug 31 (or later)

Pineapples

• film Tony’s day (cuz it’s soooo interesting)
• he works real hard and funny stuff happens
• RAM office is completely full of pineapples
• will be for sale at RAM, cheap, all proceeds go to Hubbard House
• donated by Winn Dixie
• more details to come on Urban Core
• accepting applications for interns to film Tony’s life
• @mogdoy: #ujw. I want a pineapple.

Music (Jack)

Wednesday July 15
Doozer’s Pub – Florida Punk Show
The New Threat (St. Cloud)
Big City Bombers (Orlando)
False Arrest (Valdosta, GA)
Psycho Vision (Cocoa)

Friday July 17
Doozer’s Pub – Hardcore/Punk/Thrash Show
Fortitude (Daytona Beach)
Suburban Lockdown (Orlando)
Talk Sick Earth (Jacksonville)

At Shantytown Pub
Buff Clout (Jacksonville)
Antarctic (Jacksonville)
Victor! Fix the Sun (Grand Rapids, MI)
Pisces at the Animal Fair (Elmhurst, IL)

More shows on the EU music calendar.
Follow the EU Music Twitter feed.

Tony – Summertime In the City spread in REAX
TJ – officially representing Larry Otis

Bloggers’ Summit

• folio – neighborhood interviews
• flog – stepping it up
• bloggers’ “meeting” with the mayor
• walked in, walked out (but not next week)
• Random Control (TJ’s blog)
• mostly discussed the budget
• @mogdoy: #ujw. If the republican state house had not “cut” property taxes we wouldn’t be in this situation. Peyton fought that one.
• embracing new media
• TJ might’ve stirred it up
• T – it’s not about the mayor but about the people interacting with their government

Recommendations
Joey – new Urban Facelift project from content design group
Jonathan – mayor’s chats, details on jacksonville.com
Tony – City Kidz Ice Cream on 3rd/Main
TJ – eat spinach, honey (mogdoy: #ujw. Local honey cures allergies.)
Jack – Nicole Middleton art show at Bogda (Saturday July 18)

If you think Jack Diablo produces the show and turns in for the week, oh no. He’s a true renaissance man. His Urban Jacksonville Weekly duties just kick off the week. He details the rest of his days in his post Gainfully Unemployed.

Photo compliments of JaxScene

Between playing in Chicken and Whiskey (Doozers, July 28th) and tweeting for Burro Bags, Jack writes crazy amounts of music articles for EU Jacksonville all wrapped together in one section: http://www.eujacksonville.com/jack.php.

We’re excited to have Jack on the team. He’ll be writing show notes, doing a local music segment and monitoring Twitter and Facebook for any questions you might have for our special Urban Jacksonville Weekly guest: Tough Junkie.

Tough Junkie at the Partisan the Sea art show. Photo compliments of JaxScene

Jack recently wrote an album review of TJ’s Grab What You Can:

Tough Junkie’s initial foray into hip hop may have been akin to a kid with a chemistry set, crafting beats out of tape decks to accompany his rhymes the way an aspiring young scientist might mix the contents of test tubes to get a reaction. Junkie’s been getting a reaction here in Jacksonville for years, a positive one, and now after years in the lab obsessing, perfecting, evolving, the rest of the world will be exposed to one of Jacksonville’s best kept secrets.

We’ll be talking about three topics on the show: Summertime in the City (which Jack also wrote about in EU. Hmmm suprise), Part Duex of Tony’s Uptown Market preview and whatever Jonathan comes up with. Read Jack Diablo’s blog and follow him on Twitter.

Don’t forget to watch Urban Jacksonville Weekly Tonight at 5:30

Video compliments of JaxScene

I spoke with Logan Rink, a partner at Design Cooperative, LLC, and asked him a few questions about Uptown Market, the grocery component of the 3rd and Main development.

This is the most exciting project going on in the core right now. Springfield has not seen new retail development on Main Street in 50+ years. I just made that number up, but it’s something like that. In addition, this project is progressing rapidly and already changing the skyline of Main Street.

Tell me a little about the company you work for
Design Cooperative, LLC is our Architecture and Interior Design firm and we’re trying to service the urban design niche. Obviously that is where our passion is and we think that we have a good understanding of the urban design market and the specific challenges related to urban projects.

More of the standard issue info is on our website www.designcooperativefla.com, clearly we are not the standard issue design firm. The traditional “how many hours is this going to take and when I have reached the hours budgeted for the project I give no more effort” does not work for us. We like to approach the project with the idea that we are going to give the job the attention it deserves to get it done properly. We have the benefit of being a small lean firm with the resources to scale ourselves properly for the task at hand and still control the quality of the design.

Describe the project you are working on for the 3rd and Main project. How is this project different from City Market downtown and how is it the same
Uptown Market is a tenant of the 3rd and Main mixed use development. The project is being developed by the Cesery Companies. We have designed the Uptown market to have a connection to City Market (The Library).

The connection is both aesthetic and operation. In other words the Uptown market should feel like and operate much like a scaled down version of the City Market, thought the program is slightly different. The space is approximately 2,600 sqft. with a full kitchen, deli and grocery components.

The kitchen will serve breakfast and lunch with café seating for 40 and outdoor seating for an additional 28. The deli will serve the standards plus prepared foods (rotisserie chicken, sandwiches, salads and some other special creations from Eddie Escriba, Burrito Gallery chef). The deli items can be eaten in or taken out. The grocery component will carry wine, beer, dairy, dry goods as well as some specialty items like sauces, spreads and some Uptown Market proprietary items.

Related Links
Podcast Episode #16: Update on 3rd and Main, Bill Cesery is a Riverboat Gambler
Podcast Episode #9: Talk with Bill Cesery about Third and Main
Video: Slideshow of City Market Jacksonville renderings
Metro Jacksonville take on The Library
The Library Official Website