Help fill in Park & King on Wikipedia

[BrooklynSouth]

So much has been happening at Park & King lately, that I thought it needed its own Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_%26_King

I think I'll link to all the new businesses that have opened there, and maybe link to news stories about the RAP vs. Kickbacks parking stories. It's Wikipedia, so help me fill it in.

I noticed the Five Points could use some more content, too:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Points_(Jacksonville)

[ben says]

I find it interesting that ever since the 'Park and King revival', people have pretty much dropped 'Whiteway' as the word denoting where to go/meet people/eat/park. I remember back in HS, when we used to race from Bolles over to the deli, people used to call the whole area 'Whiteway'--not just the deli. I believe they were still doing this about up until Kickbacks started to get big and Rogue/Loft moved in. I wonder why they dropped it? After all, Park and King is 'Whiteway Corner', so to speak.

[Tacachale]

No offense, Brooklyn, but I'd rather see the existing articles on Jacksonville neighborhoods improved before we start creating articles on individual intersections within the neighborhoods. The Riverside and Avondale articles are pretty weak; I'd rather see them worked on.

[David]

Maybe a subcategory under the existing article would work best to describe the individual districts of Riverside/Avondale.

I haven't heard it called Whiteway corner in years. Aren't we all doing the "King Street District" nomenclature now?

The whole area is still hardcoded in my head as "where the art bar used to be"

[aclchampion]

I just made a slight change to the Riverside page. It described the western border as the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad. SCL never ran down that line. That was always the Atlantic Coast Line, hence the designation by CSX as the "A" Line. So I changed it to read the CSX Railroad(formerly Atlantic Coast Line Railroad). Thats my small part. :-)

[PeeJayEss]

I find it interesting that ever since the 'Park and King revival', people have pretty much dropped 'Whiteway' as the word denoting where to go/meet people/eat/park. I remember back in HS, when we used to race from Bolles over to the deli, people used to call the whole area 'Whiteway'--not just the deli. I believe they were still doing this about up until Kickbacks started to get big and Rogue/Loft moved in. I wonder why they dropped it? After all, Park and King is 'Whiteway Corner', so to speak.

I think the focus is just away from the Whiteway building, especially since the biggest thing there (Whiteway deli) is now up King a ways. The focus has also shifted away from the Park and King intersection with so much opening up on King. Up until Pele's moved in, Park and King was basically 4 dead corners (a horrible pharmacy followed by vacant building, autocentric Walgreens, "lingerie" store that how is it in business, and a church with no activity most of the week). Cool Moose was/is the only business in the building holding it down (and to a lesser extent the antiques mall, Sumo, Universe, maybe Primi). E Street, the other antiques places, and City Cycle are the only real incentive to Park being part of the district. Plus you can include the breweries when you call it King District.

[BrooklynSouth]

Good points everyone. I changed the page name to "King Street District": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Street_District

And, yes perhaps this page and the Five Points page should both be merged into the Riverside page.

[ben says]

Good points everyone. I changed the page name to "King Street District": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Street_District

And, yes perhaps this page and the Five Points page should both be merged into the Riverside page.

Can you change the picture at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside,_Jacksonville,_Florida

Seems like an odd 'first glance' if you've never heard of the neighborhood.

[Kickbackssteve]

Slightly technical but I would suggest changing "brewpubs" to "breweries".

[BrooklynSouth]

Slightly technical but I would suggest changing "brewpubs" to "breweries".

I wasn't sure what to call them, but Wikipedia already has "brewpub":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewpubs#Brewpub

[Tacachale]

Slightly technical but I would suggest changing "brewpubs" to "breweries".

I wasn't sure what to call them, but Wikipedia already has "brewpub":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewpubs#Brewpub

The terms imply slightly different things. A "brewery" is any place that brews beer; "brewpub" specifically refers to a restaurant that brews beer to serve on premises. They are often regulated differently; in Florida, brewpubs can't distribute their beer outside the restaurant and are limited in how much they can make.

In contrast, full-on breweries like Bold City and Intuition have a different license and can sell their beer elsewhere via a distributor. Additionally, they can apply for a license to operate a bar/taproom on premises to sell their beer directly. All of our local microbreweries have seen the wisdom in doing that. As such, Bold City and Intuition are not brewpubs, they are breweries that operate taprooms in the building.