Regency Centers breaks ground on a 250,000 square foot open-air village anchored by Publix, with a 2027 opening on the horizon.

Picture a Saturday morning a couple of years from now: you park once, then walk from a fresh cup of coffee to a new pair of running shoes to a table on a shaded patio, all without getting back in your car. That is the vision behind The Village at Seven Pines, and Jacksonville just watched the first shovels hit the ground.

Regency Centers broke ground in early 2026 on this open-air shopping village, the commercial centerpiece of the 1,000-plus acre Seven Pines master-planned community near the southeast corner of JTB and I-295. The first wave of openings is targeted for 2027, and the tenant list already reads like a wish…

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By Collette Strickland

Trails, tides, and the best fishing hiding twenty minutes from A1A.

A friend invited me to walk the trails at the Guana Preserve, and I couldn't believe I'd lived here for over a decade and never known they existed. If you've lived in Ponte Vedra Beach for any length of time, you've probably driven past the brown "GTM Research Reserve" signs on A1A a hundred times without ever pulling in. You're not alone. Once you actually turn down Guana River Road, you realize we have something genuinely special sitting in our backyard: nearly 10 miles of hiking trails, a shallow tidal lake full of redfish and trout, and enough marsh, oak hammock, and open sky to make you forget you're twenty minutes from the Publix on A1A.  Here's what to…

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by Jennifer Heller

Every local boater has a favorite sandbar they swear nobody else knows about, and these five prove that theory wrong every single weekend.

The engine cuts, the anchor drops, and for a second the only sound left is water lapping against the hull. Someone's already wading toward the shallows with a cooler over one shoulder. A paddleboard drifts past, untethered, while its owner swims after it laughing. This is a Saturday on the water in Northeast Florida, and it plays out the same way at five spots that locals still, somehow, call hidden gems.

They aren't hidden. They're just worth the trip, every time, which is a different thing entirely. Here's where the boats are actually going.

Shark Tooth Island on Sisters Creek in Jacksonville, FL

Sisters Creek / Shark Tooth Island,…

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by Collette Strickland

The Buried History Under Old Ponte Vedra's Street Signs

Next time you're driving through Old Ponte Vedra Beach, take a second look at the street signs. Tucked in among the oak canopies and waterfront estates, you'll spot a name that doesn't sound like your typical coastal town: Rutile Drive. It's not a random word. It's a mineral. And it's one of the last visible fingerprints of a chapter in our town's history that many people driving to the beach club have no idea ever happened.

Before Ponte Vedra Beach was Ponte Vedra Beach, it was a mining town called Mineral City. Here's how we got from one to the other. And why a mineral is still sitting on our street signs today.

Rutile Drive in Ponte Vedra Beach

When Our Beaches Were a Titanium Mine

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Three ways to support free mammograms in Jacksonville this September and October.

Every October, homes across Jacksonville glow pink for a week, porch lights and storefronts alike, a reminder of how many lives breast cancer touches in this community. Behind that tradition is Pink Ribbon Jax, an all-volunteer nonprofit that has spent nearly two decades making sure a lack of insurance never stands between someone and a life-saving mammogram. This fall, that mission comes to Marsh Landing Country Club through three separate events.

The season kicks off Tuesday, September 29 at 4 PM with a community gathering at the club, followed by Tennis for Tatas on Thursday, October 1, and Golf for the Girls on Tuesday, October 6. Together, the three events give…

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A real look inside the amenities, dining, and lifestyle of Ponte Vedra Beach's clubs.

Ask anyone who has lived in Ponte Vedra Beach for more than a summer, and they will tell you the club you join shapes your life here almost as much as the house you buy. It decides which beach you park at, which pool your kids learn to swim in, whether Sunday mornings mean a tee time or a table at brunch. With seven distinct clubs shaping daily life along this stretch of coast, from oceanfront resorts steeped in nearly a century of history to a golf and tennis compound tucked along the marsh, the choice comes down to lifestyle more than anything else.

Here is a real look at what each club offers, amenity by amenity, so you can picture your own life inside the…

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