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JACKSONVILLE MAYORAL ELECTION
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“You deserve better than Lenny Curry,” says the City Council member as she launches race to replace fellow Republican.
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City Council member Anna Lopez Brosche is running to become the next mayor of Jacksonville. Brosche, who holds an at-large seat on the city’s legislative body, announced Friday she would challenge first-term Republican Mayor Lenny Curry. “You deserve to have someone running your city that cares more about what’s happening in your neighborhood than what’s happening over in Tallahassee,” Brosche said Friday at her campaign launch in Springfield. “You deserve better than Lenny Curry,” she said. Before arriving at Bleu Chocolat Café, she filed and qualified to run at the Duval County Supervisor of Elections office Downtown. Jacksonville’s unitary election is March 19. If no candidate receives 50 percent of the vote plus one, the top two candidates will meet in a runoff May 14. Brosche, a Republican, is wrapping up her first term on council. If elected, she would become the first woman to hold the mayor’s office in Jacksonville’s history. Her challenge comes after a year of public and private disputes with the mayor, his administration and his strongest backers on the council. Brosche told supporters that Curry is failing to address serious crime and that his lack of transparency is hurting taxpayers. “I believe Jacksonville can do better and I’m the one to take us there,” Brosche said. Through his campaign chair and political consultant Tim Baker, Curry said in a statement that he “looks forward to another four years of fighting for Jacksonville’s families.” “I’m proud to stand on my record of prioritizing the fight against violent crime, creating jobs and passing four unanimous balanced budgets without raising taxes,”
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$800,000 Times-Union build-out OK’d
The newspaper is preparing to relocate to the Wells Fargo Center.
or’s overhauling of children’s service agencies; accused the mayor of orchestrating a push behind closed doors to sell city public utility JEA; and she led an effort to return grant money given to the city by the United Arab Emirates for hurricane restoration. For months, she has accused the mayor’s office of not being transparent in its dealings with the public or council members. She reinforced that Friday. “Your government must adopt a customer service attitude and a culture that values you as citizens,” Brosche said. “It is my goal to bring back trust in government through transparency.”
More than 50 years after moving from Downtown to Riverside, The Florida Times-Union is prepping to return to the urban core. The city approved a permit Thursday for Dav-Lin Interior Contractors Inc. to renovate space for Times-Union owner GateHouse Media at the Wells Fargo Center for the daily newspaper. According to the application and the permit information posted online, Dav-Lin will renovate 25,282 square feet of space for the newspaper at a job cost of $800,000. Wells Fargo is at 1 Independent Drive Downtown. The TimesUnion will build-out on the second floor, overlooking the atrium. Accounting and human resource offices are planned on the southwest corner of the floor, the newsroom is on the southeast and advertising is on the northeast. The Times-Union reported in September it would relocate its news, advertising and accounting operations from 1 Riverside Ave., where it moved 52 years ago, to the second floor of the 35-story Wells
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City Council member Anna Lopez Brosche, second from left, with supporters at the Bleu Chocolat Café in Springfield after announcing she is running for mayor.
he said. Voters elected Brosche in 2015 as the AtLarge Group 1 representative, one of five seats representing the entire city on the 19-member council. Like Curry, Brosche is an accountant. She is a managing shareholder of Ennis, Pellum & Associates, CPAs. A Jacksonville native, Brosche is the first Asian-American elected to the council and was the first Filipino-American to serve on a city council in Florida. After serving as chair of the council Finance Committee in 2016-17, she won a close race to become council president in 2017-18. That’s when many of the disagreements began to surface with Curry. Brosche pushed back against the may-
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Integra River Run sold Integra River Run, a 300-unit apartment community at 14050 Integra Drive near River City Marketplace in North Jacksonville, was sold Thursday for $54 million. Integra River Run was built in 2017 as a joint venture of The Sachs Cos. and Integra Land Co. The buyer is an affiliate of EBSCO Income Properties, LLC. The seller was represented by Cliff Taylor, Joe Ayers, Shelton Granade, Luke Wickham and Justin Basquill of CBRE.
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