Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
news.wjct.org/show/first-coast-connect/2026-07-29/on-thursdays-show-full-support
The next step to providing wrap-around services for Jacksonville’s unhoused community is underway. Sulzbacher, Northeast Florida’s largest homeless resource provider, broke ground on the $28 million development of Phase 2A for the group’s Enterprise Village earlier this month. The project, located in Northwest Jacksonville, is the first step toward moving the group’s services out of Downtown, where it has been operating since 1995. Phase 1, which features 100 housing units and apartments for previously unhoused men, is nearly 70% completed. Officials say Phase 2 will include health clinics in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, a Goodwill job training facility, culinary training services and more. Planning the 17-acre campus took nearly a decade, and construction is projected to conclude by the end of 2028. We sit down with Sulzbacher’s CEO and a board member to discuss the importance of getting the project over the finish line and what it means to move the group’s core services out of Downtown.
Guests:
Cindy Funkhouser, CEO of Sulzbacher
Whitney Meyer, Sulzbacher board member and senior vice president and chief community officer for the Jaguars
news.wjct.org/show/first-coast-connect/2026-07-29/on-thursdays-show-full-support
The next step to providing wrap-around services for Jacksonville’s unhoused community is underway. Sulzbacher, Northeast Florida’s largest homeless resource provider, broke ground on the $28 million development of Phase 2A for the group’s Enterprise Village earlier this month. The project, located in Northwest Jacksonville, is the first step toward moving the group’s services out of Downtown, where it has been operating since 1995. Phase 1, which features 100 housing units and apartments for previously unhoused men, is nearly 70% completed. Officials say Phase 2 will include health clinics in collaboration with Mayo Clinic, a Goodwill job training facility, culinary training services and more. Planning the 17-acre campus took nearly a decade, and construction is projected to conclude by the end of 2028. We sit down with Sulzbacher’s CEO and a board member to discuss the importance of getting the project over the finish line and what it means to move the group’s core services out of Downtown.
Guests:
Cindy Funkhouser, CEO of Sulzbacher
Whitney Meyer, Sulzbacher board member and senior vice president and chief community officer for the Jaguars
