Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts
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Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts is the city-owned downtown riverfront hall at 300 Water Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202. Google Places lists the phone as (904) 633-6110 and the match title as Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts. This Stay Safe Jax page is that Water Street campus. It is not VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena, not Florida Theatre, and not a Times-Union newspaper office.
Residents still search Times-Union Center and JCPA. Those older names belong to this building. Wikipedia records the Civic Auditorium opening on September 16, 1962, the Times-Union Center for the Performing Arts name from 1994 to 2022, and a 1995–1997 renovation that reopened on February 8, 1997. WJCT News reported on January 11, 2022, that the city removed the Times-Union letters and that the hall would be called the Jacksonville Performing Arts Center until a new naming sponsor was signed. Google and Visit Jacksonville now use Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts at 300 Water Street. The Jim & Jan Moran Theater is the large theatrical room inside the same building, not a different Google listing. Jacoby Symphony Hall is the concert room used by the Jacksonville Symphony. Stay Safe Jax does not invent a Moran Center rename for the whole campus.
Public ratings on this page are stored snapshots, not live scores. Google Places currently lists Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts at 4.7 from 3,901 reviews for the 300 Water Street listing, the same place ID stored here. Stay Safe Jax has no stored Yelp rating, so the headline is the Google snapshot: 4.7 from 3,901 reviews. Those numbers do not refresh when someone opens the page. A 4.7 file from thousands of concert and Broadway nights is ordinary praise for a downtown hall, not a warning.
Visit Jacksonville describes the center as home to the Jacksonville Symphony, FSCJ Artist Series Broadway shows, and touring concerts. Google currently lists weekday administrative hours 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and closed Saturday and Sunday. Those hours are office hours, not curtain times. Check the event you bought. Google lists wheelchair parking, entrance, restroom, and seating. Stay Safe Jax did not inspect the halls.
Stay Safe Jax leaves warning flags at 0. This is Downtown Jacksonville’s main performing-arts house with a large Google snapshot, a visitor-bureau listing at the same Water Street address, and a sourced 2022 name change. The tone follows that evidence. Stay Safe Jax does not paste a venue website. If you are going to a show, use 300 Water Street and the current Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts name, not an old Times-Union ticket stub, and confirm whether your seat is in Moran Theater, Jacoby Symphony Hall, or the smaller Terry Theater.
What is the current name of the Times-Union Center?
Google, Visit Jacksonville, and Wikipedia now use Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts at 300 Water Street. WJCT News reported in January 2022 that the city removed the Times-Union name while it looked for a new sponsor.
Is the Moran Theater a different building?
No. The Jim & Jan Moran Theater is the large theatrical room inside the Jacksonville Center for the Performing Arts. Jacoby Symphony Hall and the Terry Theater are other rooms in the same Water Street campus.
What is the Google rating?
As stored in September 2026, Google Places lists 4.7 from 3,901 reviews. That snapshot is not live. Stay Safe Jax has no stored Yelp rating, so the headline is 4.7.
Where is the hall and what is the phone?
Visit Jacksonville and Google list 300 Water Street, Jacksonville, FL 32202. Google’s phone is (904) 633-6110. Weekday hours on Google are office hours, not show times.
Who performs there?
Visit Jacksonville says the center is home to the Jacksonville Symphony and FSCJ Artist Series Broadway in Jacksonville, plus touring theatrical and concert events.
