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Associated Press
Published February 3, 2005
Anyone willing to look around long enough will find a city filled with super restaurants, good weather (cool and misty Wednesday, but highs expected in the mid 60s on Super Sunday), fun nightlife and more golf holes per capita than anywhere else in America. Nearly 4,500 people attended a party Tuesday at the Stadium Course on the TPC at Sawgrass, where they were given a chance to land a ball on the world-famous 17th green.
There's the beach, the river, the Intracoastal Waterway. Fishing, hunting, tennis. In the nearby bedroom communities of Amelia Island, Ponte Vedra Beach and Jacksonville Beach, you can still buy a house on a workingman's salary. It's a city that now smells of seabreeze and coffee beans (thanks to the downtown coffee plant) instead of the paper mills and smoke stacks of the past. It's a city with scenic bridges that have been widened to alleviate congestion and illuminated to glow on the river below.
Most of all, Jacksonville is full of people who have been looking forward to what could be a once-in-a-lifetime chance to show itself off to the world.
Eddie Pells, Associated Press
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