• The City will hold a public meeting Tuesday evening to solicit opinion on the future use and design of the Brooklyn-Riverside Avenue area which borders McCoy’s Creek to the north, I-95 on the west and the St. Johns River to the southeast. It’s at City Hall and DDA member David Auchter and City Council member Reggie Fullwood are scheduled to be there.
• Set aside the afternoon of Oct. 14 for the Jacksonville Bar Association/Young Lawyers Section’s Charity Golf Tournament, “Tee It Up For daniel,” which will be held on the Ocean Course at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club. All proceeds will benefit daniel, the oldest child-serving agency in Florida. For more information, call Kevin Cook at 353-0211 or Ray Driver at 301-1267.
• The McCormick Agency has bought a building at 2579 Oak St. in Riverside and will be moving the offices there from Baymeadows the end of May.
• Firehouse Subs has now opened what will be the first of 25 stores in San Antonio, Tex., the 139th store in the chain founded, owned and operated by Robin and Chris Sorensen of Jacksonville. Firehouse has stores in eight states.
• We have our first (and maybe our only) Olympian. Chris Ennis, who grew up here and now lives in the North Carolina mountains, got through the final qualifying in the canoe competition and will be the United States’ only paddler in Greece this summer.
• Riverside’s icon, the Whiteway Deli, will close May 6-8. Out-of-town wedding to attend.
• The Downtown Development Authority board wants to ensure Bay Street Town Center businesses that receive City incentives stick with the entertainment district concept. Several board members requested that future incentive agreements require businesses to keep an entertainment component until City loans are paid back.