{"id":342949,"date":"2026-07-17T01:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342949\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T01:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:23:29","slug":"court-street-reopens-months-ahead-of-schedule-in-jacksonville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342949\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Street reopens months ahead of schedule in Jacksonville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; A construction project in downtown Jacksonville has wrapped up months ahead of schedule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Court Street reopened Thursday after being closed since April 20. The project had originally been expected to continue through September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The work included removing brick from part of the roadway and converting another section of Court Street to two-way traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Some downtown business owners opposed removing the brick, saying it was part of the area\u2019s character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The city later reached a compromise by agreeing to replace it with stamped, dyed concrete.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The above video is our WITN+ livestream and may not reflect the content in this story. JACKSONVILLE, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[97656,66560,558,16930,52115,2318,9000,140709,140708,116,118,117,4481,1854,87457,8561,728,4480],"class_list":["post-342949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-brick","tag-bricks","tag-business","tag-businesses","tag-court-street","tag-downtown","tag-downtown-jacksonville","tag-downtown-jacksonville-business","tag-downtown-jacksonville-businesses","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-nc","tag-north-carolina","tag-reopens","tag-schedule","tag-street","tag-witn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342949","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=342949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}