HGTV 2013 Smart Home Giveaway Sweepstakes Jacksonville Beach FL - Front of Home

Enter the new Paradise Key community is South Jacksonville Beach, and you’ll find home styles that harken back to Old Key West, but a whole lot more high tech.  It’s a small community with just 62 home sites, a few blocks from the beach. Paradise Key South Beach has footpaths and wooden walking bridges to be pedestrian and bicycle friendly and minimize the carbon footprint that cars produce. And this is just the beginning of the “smart” part of HGTV Smart Homes Giveaway sweepstakes grand prize home.

HGTV 2013 Smart Home in Jacksonville Beach Giveaway Sweepstakes - Rear View

Smart home technology and green living are central to the community’s success, with homes

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  At the artist Lisa Hoke exhibit reception last Friday night, art lovers were transfixed by the work of Lisa Hoke, American artist whose work must be seen in person to truly be appreciated.   Blazing color, thousands of bits and pieces of true Americana come together in her work, Love American Style. The centerpiece of the exhibit, which had its preview at a private reception Friday evening, November 11, was assembled on site at the J. Johnson Gallery in Jacksonville Beach. The work is a monumental mosaic of thousands of paper and plastic classic American memorabilia. Hoke's installations are site-specific, and Love American Style consumes the entire west wall of the gallery, comprised of the mundane cardboard and plastic packaging of…