Landing Christmas: The Sleiman Family gives to the city in the Spirit of Christmas.
Once again, the Landing Christmas tree lighting ceremony officially declares the beginning of “Christmas in Jacksonville.” Thank you to the Sleiman Family who — against the local government “leadership” — ignored them and created a wonderful night for Jacksonville residents. The fight between Mayor Curry and this local family enterprise has been sad to […]
Mayor’s Internal Plan to take back Landing: Regulation Strangulation?
As many of our Eye on Jacksonville followers know, we have been watching the Mayor use mob rule tactics to TAKE BACK the Landing vs. negotiating a good deal for the City. He told us he had an internal plan and he wasn’t kidding. Read more here: Internal Plan Yesterday we wrote that the Mayor’s office […]
CALL THE MAYOR’S OFFICE: (904) 630-1776. He’s “screwing” FL/GA weekend.
Mayor Lenny Curry has done all he can to “put the screws and keep pushing this” regarding The Landing and TAKING IT back from the Owners. These are not our words — these are the Mayor’s very words. Remember this statement from Mayor Curry last year: “I’m prepared to take the Landing… I’m prepared […]
Want to know how to make Jacksonville’s downtown Great Again? Tough love!
We were excited to spend Saturday night with my son and daughter in love celebrating her birthday. We decided on the coolest, most expensive restaurant in downtown Jacksonville, Cowford Chophouse. We drove downtown and our path took us by The Landing. We all looked at the building that had been home to so many fun […]
Eye on Jacksonville welcomes new City Council President, Aaron Bowman
City Council President Aaron Bowman is taking steps to change the notoriously short-term thinking of politicians into a mindset that takes a longer view. Because of term limits, and the annual change of council presidents, the council tends to operate in one-year cycles. Obviously, some issues remain in the political realm much longer than that. […]
Mayor Curry is the worst person of the week AGAIN and doesn’t care about low income nobodies.
I read about the latest “squeeze play” by Mayor Curry to take back the Landing (per his internal plan). I wasn’t surprised by this new bully tactic. We expected it. But, I WAS disappointed in the Mayor — someone who once stood with me at The Landing and rallied against politicians who used tactics just […]
Iconic Jacksonville Landing’s heart is broken. Can we Make Her Great Again?
Eye has been following the sad situation with The Jacksonville Landing dispute between the Mayor and the Owners. If buildings had a heart, certainly the Landing’s would be broken. The Landing has been used in most every marketing picture by the city and others who want to attract new residents to North Florida. It even […]
STINK to Mayor Curry & his staff using his power to implement his plan to “put the screws” to the Landing
I woke up, grabbed a cup of coffee and turned on my computer to read the daily news. I was excited about today because we were going to be out and about speaking about Eye on Jacksonville and not only that – the economy is booming, people are back to work and there is a […]
The Landing won the people’s vote. The business community supports The Landing.
The Business Journal recently produced a poll. Click the link to see the full results. Link: Which of these downtown projects do you think will have the largest impact on Jacksonville? The Landing was #1 with 54% of those polled. The Business Journal’s readership is largely local businesses and business leaders. It appears even the local […]