The Most Exciting Suburbs in America

[Metro Jacksonville]

The Most Exciting Suburbs in America



Movoto.com shares their list of the most exciting suburbs in America with MetroJacksonville. We made the list.  


Read More: http://www.metrojacksonville.com/article/1969-dec-the-most-exciting-suburbs-in-america

[spuwho]

Movoto doesn't get around enough.

Nice to have Jax Beach on there, but Santa Clara CA?

Evanston with a picture of a library?

Lamo. Tell them they need to do more research.

[Bill Hoff]

A week earlier, the same website listed Jax as the 3rd best city in FL to live, after Pembroke Pines & Port St. Lucie.

Fyi.

[Bike Jax]

Lat I heard, Jacksonville Beach was a city and I would think they would be slightly offended at as being referred to as a Suburb.

[ProjectMaximus]

Lat I heard, Jacksonville Beach was a city and I would think they would be slightly offended at as being referred to as a Suburb.

Aren't suburbs usually separate "cities" from the central city? Perhaps Jax Beach would be offended by the notion of being a suburb but I don't understand what being a city has to do with it as most suburbs (streetcar, bedroom, edge cities, what have you) are separate entities.

[ProjectMaximus]

Evanston with a picture of a library?

Lamo. Tell them they need to do more research.

To be fair when I saw the original article at movoto's site they had a slideshow gallery and Evanston's photo was of an outdoor rock festival, which I can only assume was from Dillo Day. If there's any day of the year that's exciting in Evanston, that's the one. 

[Tacachale]

A place can be a suburb even if it happens to be incorporated as a city. In fact many suburbs are. In Jax Beach's case it's definitely a suburb now, I expect most residents who live there work elsewhere.

[ronchamblin]

I'm a little confused about the terms used to describe areas.

Would it be proper to call Five Points, and the Park and King area ...  suburbs?  And San Marco?  Is it proper to call all areas outside of the city core ... a suburb?   

Within the suburbs, we have office parks, shopping malls, residential and condo projects, and housing communities, both gated and non-gated.  Is vacant land outside of the core considered to be part of the suburbs?     

All classic shopping malls seem to be in the suburbs.  I presume that the closest thing we have to a mall in the Jax city core is the Landing.  And soon, renovation will allow it to become less like a mall.

Malls and strip malls in the suburbs have had the ascendancy over the city core development for several decades.  The new construction near Five Points, Park Street, and Forest could be called part of a suburb I suppose, but it probably should not be termed a mall environment ... which is good, because people seem to tire of classic malls.

The upcoming panel discussion on the 6th, promoted by the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) should be interesting, because historically the discussion seems to be centered around the "mall" idea, which has little to do with the Jax City core -- which is okay I suppose, as there are areas needing development other than the core.

Perhaps the ICSC discussion concept, even though developed during the time of classic mall growth, still has some relevance to areas like Five Points, Riverside/King, and even the Landing.  Perhaps the ideas exchanged in the upcoming discussion will be applied to "retail" and certain aspects of real estate, but certainly will not be focused on the classic suburban malls -- which we urbanites perhaps shouldn't support -- and which are, thank goodness, hopefully in decline overall.

In any case, it appears that the ICSC discussion will have little focus on the development of vibrancy and infill in the old city core, as its purpose is elsewhere, but will perhaps have focus on..... well... we will see what the focus will be.   







   

[thelakelander]

I'm a little confused about the terms used to describe areas.

Would it be proper to call Five Points, and the Park and King area ...  suburbs?  And San Marco?  Is it proper to call all areas outside of the city core ... a suburb?

Yes. I'd argue that the majority of Jacksonville outside of the preconsolidated city would be considered post WWII suburbs any place else across the country. There's really no difference in what Mandarin or Argyle are today verses what Northern St. Johns and Clay have become. 

[ProjectMaximus]

hmm, someone posted this story in my Facebook feed so I revisited the link, and I now notice that you guys have mixed up the last three photos for the last three cities. Your photo for Evanston should be Santa Clara, SC should be Tucson, and Tucson should be Evanston. FYI

[I-10east]

^^^You meant Tempe AZ, and Santa Clara, CA.