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Affordable Jacksonville is America’s largest city and Florida’s fastest growing Michael Patrick Shiels Urban Meyer, the supremely successful former Ohio State football coach, recently moved back south to take the reigns of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars in what’s called the “First Coast” along the Atlantic Ocean in Northeast Florida. “One of the most successful coaches ever decided to choose Jacksonville to come to because he saw the incredible opportunities other people see here,” said Michael Corrigan, the former city council president who now serves as president and CEO of ...

If Jacksonville’s hospitality industry was a person, the coronavirus would have put the patient in intensive care on life support just days after the pandemic began in March 2020. According to data provided by Visit Jacksonville, the convention and visitors bureau for Jacksonville and the Beaches, hotel occupancy dropped from nearly 80% of rooms booked in February 2020 to barely more than 30% in April, the first full month of the pandemic shutdown. When the bottom fell out of demand for hotel rooms, the average daily rate for the 18,717 hotel rooms at 164 properties in Duval County also suf...

A STUNNING array of works were submitted for the annual 1FT SQ exhibition hosted by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, which for the first time in its 13-year history is taking place virtually via Strule Arts Centre's Facebook page. Having opened on December 4 with a virtual event live-streamed from the Strule Arts Centre in Omagh via the Council's YouTube page, the exhibition runs until January 9. A Council spokeswoman said: "This is the 13th year of 1FT SQ exhibition – an event that has grown annually and attracts artists of all genres and creative backgrounds, both locally and f...

Jacksonville Office of Economic Development director The primary issue facing economic development is continuing to recruit and create jobs and capital investment. Jacksonville is not in a vacuum facing nationwide economic challenges expected in 2021, but Northeast Florida is positioned better than some U.S. regions as companies in pandemic-resilient sectors like logistics, distribution and e-commerce continue to invest in local commercial projects. It certainly appears that the large landowners are forecasting positive future growth in that area as they go through the permitting cycle. The c...