The gift is the largest corporate donation yet to Groundwork Jacksonville, the nonprofit championing the Emerald Trail.
Street as well as the nearby Phoenix and Springfield areas, and Kiely said it was important to benefit both the company’s employees and its neighbors.
The 4.8-mile route once covered by CSX rails has been owned by the city since 2008 and earmarked for use as green space for years, but Swisher’s gift will help a 1.3-mile section where design work hasn’t begun yet.Street outside Andrew Robinson Elementary School gradually east to Liberty Street, then north to 21Street and east a little farther to paved lanes cutting through grass and shady trees toward the line’s northern tip.
Other sections of the S-Line reach south into downtown’s LaVilla area and north into Brentwood, and Emerald Trail supporters have talked about a completed S-Line as a community asset linking neighborhoods that historically seemed disconnected.
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