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The ongoing revitalization of the historic Northwest neighborhood in West Palm Beach, Florida, should serve as an example of what could happen in Jacksonville’s historic Eastside as a result of Community Benefits Agreement funding.

Located just northwest of Downtown West Palm Beach, the Northwest neighborhood is a historic Black community that was first settled in 1894 by laborers of Henry Flagler’s hotels and nearby Florida East Coast railroad. As Flagler’s real estate empire expanded, the neighborhood attracted Black settlers from Jacksonville, northern Florida, Georgia and the Bahamas in search of work.

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During segregation and the Chitlin’ Circuit era, the Northwest neighborhood grew to become the social, cultural and economic center for West Palm Beach’s Black community. Like the historic Eastside and LaVilla, peer neighborhoods adjacent to Downtown Jacksonville, the Northwest neighborhood economically declined after desegregation. Covering 700 acres, the Northwest Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 22, 1992. It became a local West Palm Beach historic district in 1993.

In recent years, the West Palm Beach Community Development Agency has targeted the Northwest neighborhood for revitalization. The CRA is a local government agency that works in collaboration with residents, property owners, businesses, developers, and other community organizations to foster redevelopment and is nationally recognized as one of the most innovative and effective community redevelopment agencies in the country.

With the Northwest neighborhood being a priority for cultural heritage preservation and economic investment of the Downtown/City Center CRA, the neighborhood’s projects offer real insight into what type of projects could take place in Jacksonville’s historic Eastside if funded through the Mayor Deegan Administration’s proposed community benefits agreement with the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Here’s a brief look at eight projects recently completed or underway, that would also be appropriate for the Historic Eastside.

311 N. Sapodilla Ave. is a two-story building that was constructed in 1935. With a goal of preservation of the historic structure and architectural features, the building was renovated to house an owner-occupied restaurant and bar. Nearing completion, the $1.8 million project included the interior build-out of a Caribbean and Spanish fusion restaurant named Fantasy Island, along with an interior/exterior bar and seating area designed to accommodate 150 seats.

As a part of the neighborhood’s preservation efforts, zoning was modified to protect the historic scale of the built environment while also allowing high-density, mixed-use infill on the edge of the community, where appropriate. The Grand West Palm Beach is the neighborhood’s largest infill mixed-use project completed to date. Located at Third and Rosemary, The Grand is a 309-unit workforce housing complex with a split of market-rate units and units reserved for people making 80% to 140% of the area median income.

The Grand also pays homage to Cracker Johnson, an early 20th century entrepreneur and peer of LaVilla’s Charlie Ed Craddock, who owned a popular bar that was once located on the property. As a salute to Johnson, the development will have a fully operational speakeasy. West Palm Beach’s CRA provided a $9 million grant and $5 million over 13 years in tax refunds. The city’s Housing Department also provided $1 million. The Grand was completed in May 2024.

Located at 825 N. Rosemary Ave., Heart & Soul Park is a 0.9-acre public park and outdoor concert venue that opened on Juneteenth 2021. The $4 million music-themed park has a heritage trail with history stations and artwork inlaid into pavement, a musical-themed playground with shade sails, a grass mound for a playful landscape, varied seating options, interactive musical instruments and portable stages for special events. The park is centrally located between several CRA investments, an example of clustering, complementing uses within a compact setting.

In 1917, Haley and Alice Frederick Mickens built their two-story house in the heart of the Northwest neighborhood. Mickens added a two-story rooming house nearby in 1921. Over the years, famed guests at the Mickens property included Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, A. Philip Randolph, Mary McLeod Bethune and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Ralph Bunche. Seeking to provide an authentic lodging experience in the historic Northwest, the CRA is investing $5 million to help rehabilitate the structures into a bed-and-breakfast, which creates an opportunity for a local businessperson to earn and keep local dollars in the community.

The Payne Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church congregation was organized in 1893. The current structure, at 801 9th St., was designed by Hazel Augustus, the first registered Black architect in Palm Beach County. The building, with its stained glass windows and an interior plan very similar to the historic Eastside’s Mount Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church, was dedicated in 1929.

A few years ago, the church was completely restored through a Transfer of Development Rights. In 2018, the CRA acquired the development rights for four stories above the sanctuary. By acquiring the “air rights” and transferring them to a different site, the developer was allowed to add density in another location and use the revenue to restore a historic landmark within the neighborhood.

The Styx Promenade is named in honor of a 19th century Black neighborhood in Palm Beach, which housed mostly Black laborers responsible for the construction of the Breakers and Royal Poinciana hotels. The Styx was erased when Henry Flagler moved its residents across Lake Worth to West Palm Beach.

This CRA redevelopment project was designed with an intent to pay homage to the shotgun-style houses that made up the Styx community, while also catering to small and local start-up businesses. During construction and through a competitive process, the CRA awarded the structures to different local business owners. Located along 7th Street, just west of Heart & Soul Park, the Styx Promenade is expected to be completed by the end of 2024.

Dating back to 1926, the Sunset Lounge was known as the “Cotton Club of the South” and West Palm Beach’s premier Chitlin’ Circuit venue. The West Palm Beach CRA recently invested $22 million to renovate this iconic music and entertainment destination. It is considered to be the cornerstone of the CRA’s attempts to revive the Northwest neighborhood. The renovated venue will include a full-service restaurant and bar on the first floor, a second-floor ballroom, third-floor mezzanine and a two-story addition with a rooftop bar and patio.

Similar to the Eastside’s A. Philip Randolph Boulevard in Jacksonville, Tamarind Avenue served as a major segregation-era commercial thoroughfare for the Northwest community. Today, the West Palm Beach CRA is in the midst of giving the street a $22 million makeover. When completed in 2025, improvements will include infrastructure like a new water main, undergrounding overhead utilities, and improving sidewalks, lighting and landscaping.

In addition, the West Palm Beach CRA is investing in the rehabilitation of historic commercial storefronts and legacy businesses along the corridor, including renovating Hamburger Haven, a family-owned business in operation since the 1940s, and building a brick-and-mortar location for D’ Best BBQ.

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Early voting in South Florida began this week, kicking off one of the most consequential election cycles of our time.

Besides picking the next president, voters will get to choose a U.S. Senator and members of the U.S. House, Florida Senate and Florida House — as well as local races, which now include some brand new positions such as Miami-Dade County Sheriff and the Broward County tax collector.

These positions come as a result of a statewide ballot amendment passed in 2018, mandating every county to elect five totally independent “constitutional offices."

READ MORE: What to know about the new positions on the ballots for Miami-Dade, Broward

The early voting period will run for two weeks through Aug. 18. Registered voters can use any polling station in the county during that period, not just their assigned precinct.

Read on for county-by-county information on how and where to vote, as well as how to look up which candidates and what questions are on your ballot and how to make sure that your vote-by-mail ballot counts. You can read WLRN's Voter Guide for detailed information on candidates for federal and state races in South Florida.

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Detailed info by county:BrowardMiami-DadeMonroePalm Beach

Florida’s primary election is being held on Aug. 20, 2024. Because Florida holds closed primaries, voters have to be registered with a party to participate in that party’s primary.

Regardless of party affiliation, voters could have other races on their ballots, like school board or judicial seats.

Each county’s official election website can provide voters with a sample ballot detailing all the races and questions they will be voting on. Check here for Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach counties.

For Primary Election

For the General Election:

Register to vote in the 2024 General Election here. The deadline has passed to register to vote for Florida's Primary Election.

To cast a ballot in the general election you have to be a U.S. citizen, a Florida resident and at least 18 years old. You also have to be registered to vote in the state.

Your completed ballot must reach your county's elections department no later than 7:00 p.m. on the day of the election. If you have one, you can send it via the United States Postal Service or drop it off in person — during business hours — at a secure drop box.

Voters who wait until Election Day to submit their vote-by-mail ballot cannot drop it off at their precinct — it will need to be dropped off at their county's elections department offices. Check for those details in the links above or go county-by-county below.

If you received a vote-by-mail ballot, but would rather cast your ballot on Election Day, you can do that, but you must bring your mail-in ballot with you to your assigned voting precinct. Elections officials have to cancel that ballot so you can vote in person.

There are some restrictions to keep in mind if you will be dropping off mail-in ballots at any point. According to Florida law, a person may only bring two signed and sealed vote-by-mail ballots besides their own, except for immediate family members — this means a person’s spouse or the parent, child, grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the person or the person’s spouse. Find more details on who and how to request a mail ballot here.

If you mailed your ballot or dropped it off at a polling place during early voting, you can track the status of your ballot online by visiting your county's supervisor of elections website. Check to see the status of your mail-in ballot in Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach.

For those who are voting in person and have not cast their ballot by the end of early voting, polling stations will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m on Election Day, Nov. 5. Any voters waiting in line at 7 p.m. will be allowed to cast a ballot; if you arrive at your precinct later than 7 p.m., you will not be able to vote.

We have specific information for your county below, but you can find your precinct here. All voters must bring appropriate identification to the polls — we have details below or check here for more information.

Voters can also request language accommodations and accessible voting for people with disabilities.

You can find detailed information for voting for your county below.

Broward County

Early voting

Find the full early voting schedule in Spanish or Creole. Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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On Election Day, voters in Broward County must visit their assigned polling station within their precinct, which you can find here. You can check your sample ballot and other voting information at the County Supervisor of Elections here.

Check here for other details, including how to return your vote-by-mail ballot.

Miami-Dade County

Early voting

Find the full early voting schedule in Spanish or Creole here. Polls will be open:

Voters can view a customized sample ballot along with other information including polling locations here. On Election Day, voters must go to a poll within their precinct. For more information, Miami-Dade County’s voter information guide is available in English, Spanish and Haitian Creole.

Check here for details on vote-by-mail ballots, including how to return and track your ballot.

Monroe County

Early voting

Early voting polls will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

On Election Day, voters must visit a poll within their precinct, which you can find here. You can view a customized sample ballot and other voting information here. Sample ballots, in English and Spanish, at the County Supervisor of Elections can be found here.

Check here for details on your mail-in ballot, including how to return it.

Palm Beach County

Early voting

Find the full early voting schedule here. Early voting polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Note that certain Secure Ballot Intake Station locations have different business hours.

Voters in Palm Beach County can find their sample ballot and voting locations here. On Election Day, voters must visit a poll within their precinct. That information can be found at the County Supervisor of Elections here.

Check here for details on vote-by-mail ballots, including how to return your ballot.

When it comes to dining out in Palm Beach County, nothing beats a good deal these days.

Luckily, locals and tourists alike can catch a price break during Flavor South Florida — the annual foodie-focused dining promotion that makes its official return in September with plenty to salivate over.

The month-long dining event aims to introduce diners to the county's vast array of restaurants via affordable multi-course menus. Participating restaurants offer diners a choice of specially priced three-course meals for lunch and dinner.

This year, Flavor South Florida has broadened its horizons even further, including restaurants as far north as Port St. Lucie and Jensen Beach south to Boca Raton. In addition, several all-new staycation deals with local resorts offer ways to save on both a mini-vacation and on-property dining.

When Kerri Paizzi took over Flavor South Florida as the event's owner and director in 2021, she knew it was her chance to help the Palm Beach County restaurant industry.

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Paizzi moved from Long Island to South Florida in 2010, leaving behind a 14-year career in the New York City restaurant industry and taking a marketing position with Capital Grille in Palm Beach Gardens. In 2018, she founded Monarch Marketing and Design, a digital marketing agency, as well as Monarch Music, a booking agency that showcases musical talent in South Florida.

Her most exciting achievement to date? Taking ownership and rebranding Flavor Palm Beach from event founder Briana Beaty, who created the month-long event in 2007 after moving from Miami to Palm Beach Gardens.

"We met and became friendly over the years, and when she left I felt like it was the perfect fit," says Paizzi. "I knew immediately that I wanted to take it to the next level, and I was able to do so from looking at the event from both the restaurant perspective and the consumer side, taking the program and making them work together so they made sense for everyone."

Today, what was once no more than a dozen or so establishments has since grown to more than 50 restaurants. To date, a total of 66 restaurants have signed on to participate in the 2024 Flavor South Florida dining promotion, a number that is expected to increase over the coming weeks.

According to Paizzi, the promotion takes place at an ideal time for local restaurants that have been feeling the economic impact of rising rents, food and labor costs, and an unusually slow summer slump.

"I'm beyond passionate about helping thes restaurants succeed," sums up Paizzi. "The public's support is what keeps these restaurants thriving."

Interested in eating your way to a positive economical impact? The best way is to browse the full list of participating restaurants below, with menu details available on the Flavor South Florida website.

This year, the participating restaurants span more than a dozen cities from Boca Raton to Jensen Beach, and cover a variety of cuisines from Italian and French to seafood-centric and plant-based.

BOCA RATON

The Capital Grille

Chez Marie French Bistro

Il Mulino New York

Loch Bar

Melting Pot

Mia Rosebud

Pavillion Grille

Ruth's Chris

Sushi By Bou

BOYNTON BEACH

A'lu Mexican Cuisine

Driftwood

DELRAY BEACH

Dada

The Wine Room

HUTCHINSON ISLAND

Baha Grille

Drift

Kyle G's Prime Seafood

JENSEN BEACH

Conchy Joe's

Dolphin Bar & Shrimp House

JUNO BEACH

Aqua Grill

Key Grill

JUPITER

1000 North

Ara

Beacon

Blackbird Modern Asian

The Jupiter Grill

Latitudes

Lucky Shuck

The Twisted Tuna

LAKE WORTH

Benny's On The Beach

MANALAPAN

Polpo

PALM BEACH

Cafe Boulud

Echo

Florie's by Mauro Colagreco

Henry's Palm Beach

The Italian Restaurant

La Goulue

PALM BEACH GARDENS

The Butcher's Club

Cafe Chardonnay

The Capital Grille

Christopher's Kitchen

Cool'A Fish Bar

Honeybelle

La Masseria

Melting Pot

Salute Market

Seasons 52

Sushi By Bou

SINGER ISLAND

Caretta Caretta

Ona Coastal Cuisine

Tula

STUART

Hudson's On The River

La Forchetta

Oak and Ember

Stringers Tavern & Oyster Bar

TEQUESTA

Il Professore

NiMo Coastal Mediterranean

Salty Zebra

WEST PALM BEACH

Felice

Galley

The House

Planta

Proper Grit

Raindance Steakhouse

Ruth's Chris

Spruzzo

Nicole Danna is a journalist atThe Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach her at nicoleadanna@gmail.com. Help support our journalism.Subscribe today.