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VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena [5] (originally Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena) is a multi-purpose arena located in Jacksonville, Florida.It currently serves as the home arena of the Jacksonville Icemen of the ECHL, the Jacksonville Giants of the American Basketball Association, and the Jacksonville Sharks of the Indoor Football League.
Jacksonville has recorded three 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 ...
A Jacksonville landmark for 19 years, Arden's Kountry Kafe — known throughout Northeast Florida for its Southern comfort food buffet — shut its doors permanently on Jan. 4, 2021.
In 1968, the city of Jacksonville and most of Duval County formed a consolidated municipal unit. As part of this process, Mandarin ceased to exist as a political entity, and became part of the city of Jacksonville. [9] In 1990, with the rapid growth of Mandarin, a new public high school was opened in the area.
The neighborhood was formerly the independent city of South Jacksonville until it was annexed by Jacksonville in 1932. The neighborhood is primarily residential, with an integrated commercial sector known as San Marco Square. The South Jacksonville community emerged after the American Civil War and incorporated in 1907.
The Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway is a 7.1-mile (11.4 km) long expressway running along the eastern and northern edges of Downtown Jacksonville, Florida.It carries U.S. Route 1 Alternate (US 1 Alternate) from near its southern terminus to an interchange with US 1/US 17 (Main Street).
The Epping Forest (also known as the Alfred I. duPont Estate) was a historic, 58-acre (230,000 m 2) estate in Jacksonville, Florida, United States where a luxurious riverfront mansion was built in the mid-1920s by industrialist Alfred I. du Pont and his third wife, Jessie Ball du Pont.
The Avenues (also referred to and often known as Avenues Mall) is a two-level regional shopping mall located on the southside of Jacksonville, Florida, and opened in 1990 on the Interstate 95 corridor, and is off exit 339 at the intersection of U.S. 1 (Philips Highway) and Southside Boulevard.