The tour will begin in the Southside CRA at RiversEdge, a $280 million, 30-acre redevelopment project on the riverfront site of a former electric generating station. The next stop will be the Sports and Entertainment District in the Northbank CRA (amidst the arriving Florida-Georgia revelers) where $495 million worth of contiguous development projects are underway along the riverfront, including a Four Seasons hotel, office building, riverwalk extension, riverfront park, and museum. We will also pass by the first multifamily project to locate at the Sports Complex, and a nearby restoration and rehabilitation of a historic warehouse to multifamily. Then it’s on to City Center where we will visit two of five historic structures (c. 1902-1955) along two city blocks that are in various stages of completion. The projects, with a combined capital investment of $100 million, include a former Federal Reserve Bank building, a former hotel, former residential-mansion and two former office buildings that are all using financing from incentive programs designed to foster the preservation and revitalization of unoccupied, underutilized and/or deteriorating historic buildings located in downtown. The next stop will be the LaVilla District, once home to brothers Rosamond and James Weldon Johnson, composers of the hymn Lift Every Voice and Sing. While in LaVilla, a historic multi-cultural neighborhood (and once a vibrant African American community and music and entertainment scene referred to as the Harlem of the South), the tour will visit Lift Every Voice and Sing Park, the model-mile of the Emerald Trail and Johnson Commons, a 91 unit for-sale townhome project. The tour will wrap up in the Brooklyn District, stopping briefly at One Riverside (a $164 million riverfront redevelopment project on the former site of Jacksonville’s daily newspaper), and conclude on the Northbank Riverwalk at the recently completed FIS headquarters building adjacent to Gefen Park. Space is limited.