Good feature on the beautifully renovated Karpeles building at 1st & Laura. Should serve as a premier event venue.
"Pardue, who is a Springfield homeowner, saw the building each day that he jogged by and wanted to bring it back to life more every time that he saw Karpeles Grand.
'This is a passion project,' Pardue said.
Now two years into the redevelopment, the JPRE team has spent millions to renovate the building — updated flooring, fixtures, bathrooms, added new interior and exterior coats of paint, shined stained glass and fixed latched windows and, over six months, cleaned individually-removed window panes."
https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2025/07/29/karpeles-grand-renovations.html