There’s a gigantic rusty-red and cream colored building on the side of Union Street. It has multiple entrances, one of which leads up a concrete staircase to the door of a facility called JaxHax. It’s what people call a makerspace, a place where someone can pay a monthly membership and have access to a number of workshops. There is a woodworking room, electronics and computer lab, and even an art room.
Wyatt Sanders saw the need for a makerspace in Jacksonville because he said there was nothing like it.
“The type of [people] that come to JaxHax are people [who] are working on their own projects of things that they’re trying to develop,” Sanders said. “So prototypes, their own artwork, projects for school or things that they might need tools and space to work on something.”
Sanders said a lot of members come because they want a…
