{"id":132437,"date":"2026-01-26T18:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132437\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T18:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T18:25:07","slug":"some-downtown-bars-could-sell-alcohol-until-3-a-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132437\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Downtown bars could sell alcohol until 3 a.m."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jacksonville City Council will consider whether to grant some Downtown bars an extra hour to serve alcohol under a proposed ordinance.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced by council member Raul Arias, Ordinance 2026-0063 would allow bars in certain areas of Downtown to continue serving alcohol until 3 a.m. Those bars would be restricted to the <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2024\/10\/30\/development-jacksonville-urban-core\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Core<\/a>, Central Core, and Sports and Entertainment districts.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/11\/14\/sidewalk-restaurant-downtown\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More outdoor dining on the way in Downtown Jacksonville<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re looking at larger cities, they all have one thing in common, and that\u2019s obviously expanded hours for nightlife and restaurants, but they only have these hours in the urban core,\u201d Arias said. \u201cI think there\u2019s a place for everything, and extended hours make sense for Downtown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jan\/26\/city-council-could-allow-downtown-jacksonville-bars-to-serve-alcohol-until-3-am\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacksonville City Council will consider whether to grant some Downtown bars an extra hour to serve alcohol under&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-132437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}