• What Road Projects Do to Northeast Florida Home Values,Joey Larsen

    What Road Projects Do to Northeast Florida Home Values

    Why Do Some Neighborhoods Take Off and Others Just Sit? There is a stretch of County Road 210 in St. Johns County where, not that long ago, you could drive for minutes and see pine, palmetto and a hand-painted sign for a nursery. Today it is a corridor of communities with names and gates and lagoons

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  • Kingsley Plantation and the Timucuan Preserve: The Oldest Layer of Northeast Florida,Joey Larsen

    Kingsley Plantation and the Timucuan Preserve: The Oldest Layer of Northeast Florida

    What Was Here Before Any of This? The road onto Fort George Island narrows and the oaks close over it until you are driving through a green tunnel with Spanish moss brushing the roof of the car. Then the trees open and there is a two-story house looking out over the Fort George River, and in a long

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  • Lagoon Living: Inside the Amenity-First Communities of St. Johns County,Joey Larsen

    Lagoon Living: Inside the Amenity-First Communities of St. Johns County

    What Happens When the Neighborhood Is the Main Attraction? On a Saturday in Beachwalk you can stand on sand, look out at turquoise water wide enough for paddleboards, and be nine miles from the actual Atlantic Ocean. Kids are jumping off something. Somebody has a cabana. There is a bar. And every si

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