Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry on Saturday night appeared on One Nation with Brian Kilmeade days after the host slammed Jacksonville on national television.
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Curry went on to blame some of the perceived issues downtown on city council members and past administrations. He referenced the billion-dollar Lot J project that was turned down last year and how it could have helped.“My administration, we spent well over a year negotiating a billion-dollar project, public-private partnership that would’ve been retail, residential with it. Took it to City Council. 19 members of City Council, it needed 13 votes, it got 12. City Council voted it down.
Councilman Matt Carlucci wrote Kilmeade a letter last week expressing his irritation with his comments about the city. Carlucci on Sunday sent News4JAX a statement about Curry’s interview saying:
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