Quote:You mean the Northside? Yea they are just [BAD WORD REMOVED]. They want to put all the money on the Southside, and continue the trend of suburban sprawl. How long til the Town center area becomes the next Regency? Jacksonville is stupid big (or expansive) for no good reason.

Not specific to a certain part of town, it's a general observation and it happens everywhere. I remember working at a store at the Town Center when the TC first opened and that's been what, 13 years ago? I can't believe that! And I remember when Regency was The Place To Be and that was in the 80's and now that whole area is just not a pleasant place to be.

 

Part of the problem, too, is that there always has to be The Next Big Thing. Developers want to make money, businesses want to be in the new Hot Spot, people want to live in that new area so construction happens and people move and homes. businesses, etc., are left to be neglected, etc. In an area the size of Jacksonville/Duval County the sprawl is worse. 

 

I watched a documentary called Burn a few months back and it was about the city of Detroit as told through the eyes of firefighters who are tasked with saving buildings and homes in a city that has been decimated by the auto industry moving out and a population that just up and left with it. I knew Detroit has been in bad shape for a long time but to see it the way it was presented was tragic. 

 

It's not just any one thing or any one group that cripples a part of town, city, county, state, even a nation. It's a number of things and most of it may start as a good idea but always ends badly because people always have an agenda and nine times out of ten it's selfish. 

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