Inspired Closets Jacksonville
Custom Isn’t a Luxury. It’s Our Standard at Inspired Closets Jacksonville. We love a beautiful closet as much as the next person, but the most important takeaway we have learned on our 9-year journey as the owners of Inspired Closets Jacksonville is this: a beautiful closet means nothing if it isn’t designed for your unique needs and space. This doesn’t mean beauty gets sacrificed. It takes trust to welcome our...
The Conversation
Colin Tarbert Downtown Investment Authority CEO What attracted you to Jacksonville and to the opportunity to lead the Downtown Investment Authority? Jacksonville offers a rare opportunity to shape a downtown at scale. We have a remarkable riverfront, available land, and real momentum behind transformative projects. The DIA brings together planning, real estate, and investment tools to move that vision forward. For...
Publishers Note
The 30th annual Art & Architecture Issue is monumental, not only for Arbus Magazine, but for me personally as well. Architecture is exciting not only for the ways that it shapes cities and communities but also for the debate that it can spark. Often referred to as the “mother art” or one of the “seven arts,” architecture is also plays a major role in the development and character of a city and how...
WHERE THE RIVER LEADS
Downtown Jacksonville’s Parks & Trails as Living Works of Civic Art Jacksonville’s city center is in the midst of a generational design movement —one that treats parks and trails not as passive green space, but as active civic infrastructure and works of public art. Across the Northbank and Southbank of the St. Johns River, landscape architects, engineers, artists, nonprofits, philanthropists, and public officials are composing a...
WHERE THE RIVER LEADS TO STORIES TOLD THROUGH PUBLIC ART
We Often hear, “What is Jacksonville’s Identity?” That is a question that is difficult to answer. However, a city’s identity can be shaped and expressed through public art. Businessman Preston Haskell has commissioned many sculptures throughout Northeast Florida and believes that public art “will make our city even more beautiful, more attractive.” For more than a decade, Haskell has led the Downtown Sculpture Initiative to...
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