Created: 7/1/2009 4:37:02 PM 
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Main Street is welcoming an ice cream cafe plus an apartment complex that will provide housing for people being treated for cancer at nearby Shands Hospital.
The Lofts at Third & Main welcomed its first retail tenant, City Kidz Ice Cream Cafe on Wednesday.
The cafe is a new business that is opening on a section of Main Street that has been in various stages of road work for the past three years.
Pastor Clinton Bush is excited to be in Springfield and looks forward to not only serving ice cream and food, but also ministering to young people.
Pastor Bush says the business is involved in helping young people understand the basics of money.
"We bring kids in here on Saturday for eight weeks and teach them financial literacy," said Bush.
The $6 million building, located on the corner of 3rd and Main, is a project of Cesery Companies.
Besides retail space on the lower level, the building has 36 apartments available for short-term rental to people undergoing cancer treatment at the Proton Beam Therapy Institute.
Bill Cesery says Main Street has the potential to become a Five Points, a shopping and dining destination in Riverside.
Cesery says road construction does hinder movement on Main Street, but that is not a major obstacle.
Later this summer a deli is scheduled to open at 3rd & Main with the first cancer patients expected to become residents later next month.
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