Took some pics on my trip back up to Jax this weekend. Downtown was dead when I took these pics on Sunday morning. The weather makes it look even worse, but Jacksonville is probably my favorite downtown in all of Florida because of the character of the buildings. My sister once said, "architecturally, it's the closes thing Florida has to Manhattan."
I only got pics of immediate downtown in the Central Business district, so these pics don't even begin to do the massiveness and diversity of Jax's downtown justice. So think of it as just a taste:
Bank of America, tallest in Florida outside of Miami:
My favorite building in Jacksonville, I don't know why:
Mōdis building, one of the few nice skyscrapers to be built in the '70s
They finally started really developing the other side of the river, and it's looking nice:
