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This Week in Jacksonville - Business Edition: Riverfront key in $2.5B downtown developments

Kent Justice talks with Colin Tarbert, the new CEO of Jacksonville’s Downtown Investment Authority, about what DIA actually does and what’s driving the current wave of downtown activity. Tarbert explains DIA’s role as downtown’s community redevelopment agency - collecting tax increment financing from the Northbank and Southbank and reinvesting it to spur economic growth - while also serving as the city’s economic development arm focused on downtown.