Daily Record FINANCIAL NEWS &
FRIDAY, MAY 25, 2018
VOL. 105, NO. 135 • ONE SECTION
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Another project for Gate Parkway
THE PRESIDENTS As of May 31, the presidents of three Jacksonville institutions of higher education will retire. The Daily Record spoke with each about their work to improve the workforce and business community. Today: University of North Florida President John Delaney.
JOHN DELANEY
Plan would rezone property at Burnt Mill Road for mix of office, commercial and retail.
Retiring 15-year University of North Florida president helped raise profile of the school in the city and business community.
By Karen Brune Mathis Editor
By Andrew Warfield Observer Media Group
More office and retail development is slated for Gate Parkway south of St. Johns Town Center. The Skinner family and applicant Nouveau Management Group LLC propose to rezone about 15.44 acres at northwest Gate Parkway and Burnt Mill Road in south Jacksonville, south of Butler Boulevard. The rezoning, from Commercial Office and Residential Medium Density to Planned Unit Development, would provide a mix of commercial, retail and office uses and space for a small public building. Nouveau Management Group LLC comprises managers Mike and Elaine Ashourian. Its registered agent is Ash Properties. The S-10/Burnt Mill PUD, which is Ordinance 2018-337, is scheduled for public hearings at the Jacksonville Planning Commission (June 21), City Council (June 26 and July 24) and the council Land Use & Zoning Committee (July 17). Plans call for three commercial-retail-office buildings, a personal property storage building and a site for public buildings and facilities on the north end of the property. A site location map shows two 34,200-square-foot, two-story buildings and a 51,600-squarefoot, two-story building. Those would comprise retail space on the ground floor and office space
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ohn Delaney arrived in Jacksonville at age 16 with no intentions of staying. His father was transferred to the city with General Motors, and all the younger Delaney wanted to do was get back to Cincinnati — or just about anywhere else. “I hated it here,” Delaney, 61, said in April, a month from his scheduled May 31 retirement as president of the University of North Florida. “We were from Cincinnati and I wanted to move back there or go to Washington, D.C., or New York,” he said. Forty-five years later, he hands the reins of UNF after a 15-year tenure to David Szymanski, who in a twist of irony comes to the school from the University of Cincinnati, where he served as DELANEY
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University of North Florida President John Delaney has seen the average GPA of incoming students rise from 3.6 in 2003 to 4.17 in 2017. “I think sometimes the city doesn’t appreciate how good it is,” he said of the university.
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JinkoSolar hiring, targeting launch in September or October Chinese solar-panel manufacturer opening plant at AllianceFlorida.
JinkoSolar Holding Co. Ltd. is hiring and filing the paperwork needed to launch its Jacksonville manufacturing plant, according to city and state records and a company executive. “The project is on schedule. We have already made initial hires and are actively recruiting,” said Business Development Director
Jeff Juger. Shanghai-based JinkoSolar agreed to open a 200-job solarpanel plant at AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center with the support of city and state incentives. Juger said JinkoSolar is targeting an initial launch in September or October.
“We need 200 workers to be fully operational and we intend to be fully operational sooner than the end of next year,” he said. CareerSource Northeast Florida will hold a Northeast Florida Construction and Manufacturing Job Fair next month that includes MATHIS
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