Jacksonville and Northeast Florida in 2019 : Brian Tuttle

The Jax Daily Record has a nice round-up of plans, projections, and ‘things’ that will happen in the region in 2019. They think that there are some pretty exciting stuff is in store for Jacksonville and NE Florida.

Some items they note:

All City Council seats, and the Mayor’s office, are up for grabs
New construction projects are slated for the Northbank, Southbank, LaVilla, and Brooklyn areas.
The Hart Bridge ramp is being removed to make room for Shad Khan’s development plans
New land is being made available for sale- specifically, land currently owned by the Skinner and Davis families.
Historic neighborhoods are seeing new development / resurgence (San Marco, Murray Hill, Brooklyn, Springfield, etc)
e-commerce continues to grow (holy cow- have you seen the size of those amazon.com warehouses?)
Unemployment in Jacksonville, slightly better than the national average and under 3%, is probably not sustainable
Southeastern Grocers emerged from bankruptcy, but ownership has changed hands as part of that process. The plans of the new owners should be made public in 2019.
Jax will have two new public companies: SharedLabs and LocatorX (I was aware of SharedLabs, but not LocatorX- their intro video is pretty impressive)

There’s more, but these were the ones that jumped out at me. My take is that, if we can, nationally, get through this recent uncertainty without too much damage, NE Florida and Jacksonville will have a great 2019.