Roof Repair Southside, Jacksonville FL

Roofing in Southside

Southside is the wedge of Jacksonville between the St. Johns River, JTB and I-95, from the 1920s streets of San Marco and San Jose out through Baymeadows and Deerwood to the Town Center and Tinseltown along Southside Boulevard. It holds the city's densest office and retail roofing, TPO and modified bitumen on Baymeadows Road and Gate Parkway, alongside 1980s and 1990s shingle subdivisions reaching their second roof, gated tile and shingle estates in Deerwood, and clay barrel tile on Mediterranean revival homes in San Marco.

Southside is the largest and most varied roofing region in Jacksonville. Its oldest streets are in San Marco and San Jose, where 1920s Mediterranean revival homes carry clay barrel tile and the occasional slate roof, and 1950s ranches sit under low hip roofs on plank decking. The Baymeadows and Deerwood building boom of the 1970s through the 1990s produced thousands of shingle roofs on quarter-acre lots and gated golf course homes under concrete tile, and those subdivisions are now on their second or third roof. Tinseltown and the St. Johns Town Center area came later, with 2000s architectural shingles on apartments, townhomes and gated communities that are only now reaching repair age. Threaded through all of it are the office parks and retail corridors along Baymeadows Road, Southside Boulevard, Gate Parkway and JTB, with flat TPO, modified bitumen and built-up roofs. Weather here is inland Jacksonville: afternoon thunderstorms with downdrafts, occasional spring hail, tropical rain bands, and heavy shade from oaks and pines on the older streets. Everything in Southside is City of Jacksonville for permits, HOA and association approvals are common east of I-95, and insurance renewals on 1980s and 1990s roofs drive much of the replacement work.