Glen
Myra Homes for Sale in Jacksonville, FL

Glen Myra is a historic, established neighborhood on Jacksonville's Eastside, in Duval County, centered on East Eighth Street, which the Jaxson Magazine's history of the community describes as the area's original commercial and transit spine and which was once named Glen Myra Street. The roughly twenty block neighborhood ties Springfield on the west to the Talleyrand Avenue corridor on the east, with residential streets on 50 by 100 foot lots running perpendicular to Eighth Street between roughly West Seventh and Ninth Streets.

The neighborhood developed in the early twentieth century as housing for maritime and manufacturing workers employed along the Talleyrand Avenue waterfront and the rail lines near Deer Creek to the south, with a streetcar line once running along Eighth Street to connect residents to those jobs and to downtown. Because the area was largely bypassed by the urban renewal that cleared other historic Eastside housing closer to downtown, a meaningful share of its early twentieth century housing stock remains, so buyers should expect an older, individually varied resale market rather than a uniform, recently built one; verify age, updates, and system condition by address.

The bigger picture is location. Glen Myra sits just east of downtown Jacksonville and the Springfield historic district, within a short drive of the urban core and the Talleyrand Marine Terminal area, and Glen Myra Park, a city owned park and playground within the neighborhood, is a real, dated community amenity. Confirm flood zone status directly, since the neighborhood sits near Deer Creek and other low lying Eastside drainage.