A Brentwood property that the city of Jacksonville purchased amid neighborhood opposition to plans to turn it into a liquor store has opened as a workforce development center.
Mayor Donna Deegan and City Council member Ju’Coby Pittman were among city officials on hand May 7 for an opening event for the Entrepreneurship Workforce Development Center at 865 Golfair Blvd.
Deegan said the center would be the first of four in the city, with others at the Main Library in Downtown, the Phoenix Arts District and the Cecil Commerce Center. She said the centers, which will be operated under the Jacksonville Small and Emerging Business program, were part of her effort to make Jacksonville the “small business capital of the Southeast.”