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The Jacksonville Maritime Heritage Center began as the Jacksonville Maritime Museum in 1987 and was operated by the Jacksonville Maritime Museum Society, Inc., a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization. Its goal was to provide a resource that illustrated the local impact of maritime trade and the many aspects of the maritime environment.
Riverfront Plaza is a public area and green space under construction on the St. Johns River in Downtown Jacksonville, Florida. It is the midpoint of the 2-mile Northbank Riverwalk, just west of the Main Street Bridge. The property was the site of the Jacksonville Landing from 1987 to 2019. [1]
The United States Merchant Marine [1] [2] is an organization composed of United States civilian mariners and U.S. civilian and federally owned merchant vessels.Both the civilian mariners and the merchant vessels are managed by a combination of the government and private sectors, and engage in commerce or transportation of goods and services in and out of the navigable waters of the United ...
In 2002, under Mayor John Delaney, the City of Jacksonville purchased all three buildings to transfer them to a developer who could restore them. [ 7 ] [ 9 ] Orlando developer Cameron Kuhn purchased the Laura Street Trio, as well as the nearby Barnett National Bank Building , but went bankrupt in the 2008 housing market crash before restoring them.
Jacksonville (US: / ˈ dʒ æ k s ən ˌ v ɪ l / ⓘ JAK-sən-vihl) is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. It is the seat of Duval County, [10] with which the City of Jacksonville consolidated in 1968.
The Jacksonville Port Authority (JPA) was created in 1963 by a special act of the Florida Legislature. [10] The authority, also known as "Jaxport"', is the ...
The venue opened on May 27, 2017, with a concert by the Jacksonville-based Tedeschi Trucks Band. [ 24 ] On April 23, 2021, Machine Gun Kelly performed at Daily's Place on a tour in support of his album Tickets to My Downfall —marking the first full-capacity concert held at Daily's Place since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In 1986, the Marine Corps established the Biennial Maintenance Command (BMC) at Blount Island, Jacksonville, Florida on 262 acres (1.06 km 2) leased from Gate Maritime Properties (GMP) for $11M per year.