Tag Archives: Downtown

Rain didn’t stop more than 100 protesters from showing up at Bo Diddley Plaza in downtown Gainesville to march against the George Zimmerman not guilty verdict.

Less than a decade ago, the 400 block of South Main Street was not a destination for art. Today, it’s a thriving community of locally owned art spaces, the Civic Media Center and the Citizens Co-Op.

Tropical Storm Andrea made landfall in Florida late Thursday afternoon in the Big Bend region. WUFT provided updates throughout Thursday and Friday to this liveblog.

As students trickle out of the city after exams, streets are empty and the city of Gainesville becomes a ghost town. But instead of wallowing in the emptiness, there is a variety of events to be visited.

About 30 minutes north of downtown Gainesville, past farm land and dirt roads, under shady trees and the bright sun, Finca Mycol bustled with volunteers Wednesday.

Armed with clipboards and food for participants, volunteers with the Alachua County Coalition for the Homeless and Hungry collected information about this area's homeless people.

Andy Fass spent three years at the Levin College of Law, learning the language of lawsuits and contracts and court proceedings. He now spends his days chopping and slicing and dicing.

The University of Florida's recently launched Innovation Academy is welcomed by other entrepreneurial ventures in Gainesville.

South of downtown Gainesville's bars and nightclubs, in a leafy neighborhood between University Avenue and Depot Road, the staff at Porters Community Center works to make the area around them better.

The City of Ocala will be hosting its 29th Annual Light Up Ocala celebration this Saturday, with the event starting at 4 p.m. and official lighting at 7:30.