DIA's Aundra Wallace on Downtown: ‘Beginning of a great transition’

[thelakelander]

By Max Marbut, Staff Writer

The morning after the Downtown Investment Authority board approved two key plans, CEO Aundra Wallace hit the street to begin selling the proposed framework to revitalize the urban core.
Wallace presented the high points of the Community Redevelopment Area and Business Improvement District plans Thursday at Downtown Vision's quarterly operations meeting.

He said the plans passed on to the City Council are the result of 43 meetings since 2012.

Full article: http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=543565

[Charles Hunter]

Good news, if they can execute the plan.
With the City Council sharpening their pencils on the Mayor's budget, due to the large borrowing and dipping into the reserves, I wonder if the downtown street conversion will survive?