DIA putting together $4.5 million to help revive Snyder Memorial Church

The funding would be offered as an incentive to a prospective developer.


  • By Ric Anderson
  • | 5:45 p.m. May 23, 2025
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Snyder Memorial Church is at 226 N. Laura St. near James Weldon Johnson Park.
Snyder Memorial Church is at 226 N. Laura St. near James Weldon Johnson Park.
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The Downtown Investment Authority is working to assemble $4.5 million in funding to help resurrect the historic Snyder Memorial Church.

On May 27, the DIA is scheduled to request a $1 million budget transfer that would be added to $3.5 million in funding already budgeted for the church. 

That request, which will go before the Mayor’s Budget Review Committee, would transfer the $1 million from a contingency account for a proposed restaurant in Riverfront Plaza, the site of the former Jacksonville Landing.

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