Florida Trend's Assessment and Perception of Jacksonville

[heights unknown]

Click below to see what Florida Trend has to say about present day Jacksonville.  It's not too bad, in fact it all is really good until you get to the last paragraph, which is basically all true:

http://www.floridatrend.com/article.asp?aID=51436

Also, don't forget to click forward (at the bottom) and check out what Florida Trend and others have to say about Jax's economics, finances, culture, the community as a whole, infrastructure, and other important stuff!

"HU"

[buckethead]

The city’s metropolitan form of government â€" the city and county governments have been consolidated since 1968 â€" has provided a sound platform, and the landmark mayoral administration of John Delaney from 1995-2003 marked a turn in city politics away from traditional good-ol’-boy dealings.

They had me at hello.

They lost me here.

[Captain Zissou]

I think they recycled the last two pages from older articles.  The outside opinion is very true.

[Miss Fixit]

Interesting and, overall, a fair assessment.

Not sure I would describe San Marco as "artsy."

And interesting that they are still referring to Florida Community College rather than recognizing the new four year degree providing Florida State College at Jacksonville.

I had no idea that ours is the largest public library in the state - that's something to be proud of!  Yes, I am offering someone an opening to comment on the fact that we need it to provide shelter for our downtown homeless population.....

[Jason]

I think it is the largest in the south.

[finehoe]

I think it is the largest in the south.

Are we talking about the size of the building or it's holdings?

[Jason]

The size of the main library.

[heights unknown]

Not the holdings, the building size (feet, meters, etc.) of the main public library itself.  Don't think, in terms of holdings/volume that we are the largest in the State or the South.

"HU"

[finehoe]

Good article. Thanks for posting.

I think the "competitor" hit the nail on the head when s/he said

This international competition for talent is going to be an especially difficult game for Jacksonville to win, unless it establishes new ways of recruiting highly skilled, highly educated, highly motivated workers, essential for the new economy.”