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Jacksonville will be the staffing company’s third corporate site. BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
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Aerotek, a recruitment and staffing company, announced Wednesday it chose Jacksonville for its third corporate office. The company is based in Hanover, Maryland, and has a corporate location in Phoenix. The company did not disclose how many employees it will hire but has posted jobs for finance, customer service Kelly and human resources at Aerotek.com. It hopes to be fully operational by February at Capital Plaza at Deerwood Park Building 1 at 10401 Deerwood Park Blvd. “With Jacksonville’s rapidly growing economy and rising job market, we are confident that this is the right city to help us continue to evolve our business and meet the growing needs of our customers,” said Aerotek Chief Financial Officer Thomas B. Kelly in a news release. “Our goal is to deliver a worldclass experience to clients and contractors – which we accomplish through our dedicated field offices as well as robust corporate support functions,” he said. It said it has “a number of positions with immediate openings at our corporate Jacksonville location.”
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Developer Elias Hionides and Petra Management Inc. are working to redevelop the Jones Brothers Furniture Building near City Hall into housing, retail and office space. This is a rendering of the Western Union Building next door. He wants to brand the area as “The North End.”
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owntown revitalization needs investment, focus and a community look at a new convention center, according to four business leaders who focus on the city’s urban core among their investments. The Society for Marketing Professional Services North Florida group hosted a discussion about “Jax Downtown Revitalization: Hospitality, Hope and Hard Work” on Nov. 7 at Epping Forest Yacht & Country Club. Jake Gordon, CEO of Downtown Vision Inc., moderated the event. It comprised Aundra Wallace, president of JAXUSA Partnership, and panelists Michael Corrigan of Visit Jacksonville, developer Elias Hionides and investor Eugene Profit. Wallace and Corrigan are in positions to assist Hionides and Profit. “It hit home how the revitalization of Downtown Jacksonville will be a result of
leadership and investment, with talent recruitment, visitor recruitment and marketing also crucial,” Gordon said. “When the investors succeed in their developments, Downtown gets that much stronger with a brand new amenity — be it a new place to live or a new hotel to visit.” Gordon said that success also is tied to city, agency and community support, such as through incentives from the Downtown Investment Authority or through recruiting visitors by Visit Jacksonville. “Or even helping make Downtown a cleaner and safer, more welcoming environment like we do at Downtown Vision,” Gordon said. He said the audience of marketing professionals in the architecture, engineering and construction fields was important “because their support and success can have an positive impact on Downtown as well.” KMATHIS@JAXDAILYRECORD.COM @MATHISKB (904) 356-2466
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Jacksonville Landing owner to withhold rent payments After shutting down a secondstory food court in October, the owner of the Jacksonville Landing announced it is withholding rent payments to the city to make up for the lost revenue. Jacksonville Landing Investments LLC Chief Operating Officer Michael McNaughton said the company closed the food court “due to lack of support and sales from area workers and residents.” Jacksonville Landing Investments is a subsidiary of Sleiman Enterprises Inc. and owns the three buildings that comprise the Downtown riverfront mall. The city owns the land and leases the property to JLI. The sides are engaged in lawsuits that began in 2015 and 2017. The first suit, initiated in 2015 by the city, concerns ownership of a neighboring parking lot. In late 2017, the city notified JLI it planned to evict the company from the property for failing to maintain it as a world-class facility, leading to JLI suing the city in November of that year. JLI claims the city is not maintaining the surrounding property. The city, citing the pending lawsuits, declined to comment.
RETAIL Sprouts Farmers Market plans store at Tamaya Harbour Retail Partners intends to buy 11.2 acres at the Tamaya development to build Tamaya Market, a 75,000-square-foot shopping center to be anchored by Sprouts Farmers Market. Randy Kelley, Harbour Retail manager and developer, said construction at the northwest Beach and Tamaya boulevards center is scheduled for next year. The location is east of Kernan Boulevard. Kelley estimates the project at more than $20 million. Kelley said he had letters of intent with four more prospective tenants in addition to Sprouts, which announced its plans last week to open at the location. Sprouts Farmers Market, a Phoenixbased healthy foods retailer, also plans to open a store in the former Best Buy at The Markets at Town Center. No opening dates have been announced.
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The housing recovery finally is complete BY MARK BASCH CONTRIBUTING WRITER
The recovery from the housing market collapse a decade ago was slow, particularly in Florida, which was labeled king of the foreclosure market in the aftermath. Florida was leading the nation in foreclosures in the early 2010s and Jacksonville and several other major Florida cities consistently ranked in the top 10 in the nation for the number of foreclosed properties. However, the long recovery has finally come to fruition, according to Jacksonville-based mortgage technology firm Black Knight Inc. Black Knight’s Data & Analytics division last week reported the number of U.S. loans in foreclosure has fallen back to prerecession levels. The number of loans in a c t i ve foreclosure, which reached more Graboske than 2.2 million at its peak in 2011-12, fell to 268,332 in September, Black Knight said, the lowest level since 2006. That puts only about 0.52 percent of all U.S. mortgage loans in foreclosure, down from more than 4 percent during the peak. Jacksonville’s foreclosure market has improved tremendously since the local area’s peak in 2012. Black Knight said the number of loans actively in foreclosure in the Jacksonville metropolitan area is about 2,700, or about 0.9 percent of all active mortgage loans. At the peak in 2012, there were about 30,000 loans in foreclosure in the Jacksonville area, or 10.34 percent of all mortgage loans. Black Knight also said the most recent data showed 360 foreclosure starts in the Jacksonville area in September, down from about 2,800 per month in 2011. Not all the news is good for
Number of U.S. loans in foreclosure in the first month of the year. In September, there were 268,332 loans in foreclosure.
2006
258,613
2007
393,973
2008
813,560
2009
1,321,029
2010
2,068,572
2011
2,245,250
2012
2,205,818
2013
1,742,689
2014
1,213,046
2015
884,901
2016
659,237
Jacksonville area loans in foreclosure April 2012
2017
480,598
2018
336,613 Source: Black Knight Inc.
homeowners in Black Knight’s monthly report. While more homeowners are able to pay their mortgage loans on time, rising interest rates over the past two years are hurting their wallets. “Due to rising rates, some 6.5 million homeowners that previously could have benefited from refinancing their mortgages have missed that opportunity,” said Ben Graboske, executive vice president of the Data &
Analytics division in a news release. “This year alone, 2.2 million borrowers had the opportunity to see a 0.75 percent reduction on their first mortgage rates but did not take advantage of the reduced rates before increases to the 30-year fixed rate removed their incentive,” he said. “So far in 2018, the average 30-year fixed mortgage rate is up 0.85 percent – with 0.35 percent of that rise coming over the
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30,000 2,700 10.34 percent of all active mortgages
last two months after remaining flat for much of the summer. The result is that the refinanceable population has been cut by more than half – 56 percent – since the start of the year.” Increased mortgage rates also are impacting home affordability, Graboske said. “The monthly principal and interest payment needed to purchase the average-priced home has seen a $190 per month increase since the beginning of
0.9 percent of all active mortgages
2018, an 18 percent jump,” he said. “It now takes 23.6 percent of the median income to make monthly payments on the average-priced home, making housing the least affordable it’s been in nearly a decade. While still better than the 1995-2003 average of 25.1 percent, we’re close to a tipping point.” MBASCH@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM
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THE MATHIS REPORT
Burlington to downsize its Mandarin store n The St. Johns River Water Management District is reviewing an application for a dual-branded 239-room Courtyard by Marriott and SpringHill Suites for The Compass Group on 4.71 acres at 2700 Atlantic Ave. in Fernandina Beach.
Aldi-anchored CB Square sold for $9 million
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The off-price retailer says smaller locations are more productive. Off-price retailer Burlington Stores Inc. intends to downsize and remodel its Mandarin store in the Old St. Augustine Plaza at 11250 Old St. Augustine Road. The city is reviewing a permit for a $745,000 renovation that involves reducing the space used by Burlington from 60,576 square feet to about 49,000 square feet. Landlord Regency Centers Corp. will take back the remaining space for another tenant use. The work for Burlington includes new finishes, a reconfigured lighting layout from salvaged fixtures, new fitting rooms and new checkout counters. According to the International Council of Shopping Centers, Burlington is remodeling stores and adding more. It reported that Chairman and CEO Thomas Kingsbury said that at the end of 2017, stores smaller than 60,000 square feet were 22 percent more productive than the chain average. Kingsbury said Burlington, with 629 stores as of May, expected to add 35 to 40 stores this year by opening 60 new
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Burlington has been decreasing its lease sizes around the country and filed plans for its Mandarin store.
locations averaging 43,000 square feet and relocating or closing 20 to 25 others. In May, the Chain Store Age site said Burlington also would continue its remodeling initiative. “Our customers have responded very positively to the improvements we have made to our store base including our increasingly smaller store footprint,” Kingsbury said during a quarterly earnings call. “We are committed to investing capital to continually improve our store portfolio and plan to remodel another 34 stores in 2018.” He said the Burlington, New Jersey-based chain remains confident in its ability to expand to 1,000 stores over the long-term, according to Chain Store Age. Burlington Stores posted fiscal 2017 revenue of $6.1 billion. It operated 651 stores as of Aug. 4 in 45 states and Puerto Rico.
In August, Burlington reported that sales rose 11.3 percent over the first six months of the fiscal year and net income rose 55 percent from the year before to $154 million. Burlington operates two more stores in Jacksonville. Online flyers for both centers show the space they lease. A 55,695-square-foot store operates at 6000 Lake Gray Blvd. in Westland Park Plaza in Southwest Jacksonville. A 77,421-square-foot store operates at 9824 Atlantic Blvd. in Regency Plaza in the Regency area of Arlington. Burlington has not responded to phone calls and emails.
Storage center OK’d at Philips and Bowden
The city approved construction plans for a three-story self-storage center at 5017
Bowden Road next to the Wawa Inc. development at the corner of Philips Highway and Bowden Road. Oden Hardy Construction Inc. is the contractor for the $5.8 million project, which is a 101,418-square-foot climatecontrolled center on 1.78 acres.
Courtyard by Marriott adding, renovating hotels
Owners of Courtyard by Marriott hotels are building two and remodeling another. n The Courtyard by Marriott at Mayo Clinic at 14390 Mayo Blvd. will be remodeled at a cost of $963,881. The contractor is Land-Ron Inc. n A 110-room, five-story Courtyard by Marriott is in review for 513 Chaffee Point Blvd. in West Jacksonville. SMC Construction Southeast LLC is the contractor for the $8.5 million project.
CB Square, the Regencyarea shopping center anchored by Aldi and Ashley HomeStore Outlet, was sold Oct. 31 for $9 million, according to Duval County Clerk of Courts records. Mibarev Development I LLC, based in Denver, sold the property at 9333 Atlantic Blvd. to three related Miami-based buyers — CB Squared Investments LLC, Core Atlantic LLC and Core Atlantic Manager LLC. The three-building center comprises about 74,000 square feet of space.
UPS receives permit for $77.5M conveyor system
United Parcel Service received a permit to install conveyors in its Westside Industrial Park hub at a cost of $77.5 million. MHS Company Inc. of Kentucky is the contractor. The permit shows that the $77.5 million project is the first phase. Atlanta-based UPS is working on a $196 million expansion of the Westside package shipping center at 4420 Imeson Road.
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Becknell, Lake Washington warehouses permitted Industrial development continues as vacancy rates fall. BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Two more – maybe three – industrial warehouses are being built in Northwest Jacksonville. The city issued permits for an $18 million cross-dock building for Lake Washington Partners and a $7 million speculative warehouse for Becknell Industrial. For Lake Washington Partners, the city issued a build-out permit Nov. 1 for The Conlan Co. to prepare space at 10920 New Kings Road for an unidentified tenant at a cost of $16 million. The total project cost is $18 million, according to Lake Washington Partners of Issaquah, Washington. Lake Washington Partners is the owner and developer of the 373,650-square-foot building. Spokeswoman Katie Michals said the company is not disclosing the tenant name but says the use will be a crossdock warehouse distribution center. The project includes
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Becknell Industrial was awarded a permit to build a 185,686-squarefoot speculative building in Westlake Industrial Park.
the tenant build-out of a 6,000-square-foot office space, she said, along with lighting, dock doors and other infrastructure to support the tenant’s operations. The city issued a concurrency reservation certificate in December for a 373,650-square-foot crossdock distribution center on almost 25 acres at the site, north of Interstate 295. Lake Washington Partners bought the land in 2012. Records show Lake Washington Partners bought the adjacent 27.2-acre site in 2008 and developed the SanMar Distribution Center, which distributes clothing. Cross-docking is a logistics practice of unloading products
from an incoming truck and immediately reloading into outbound trucks or trailers. For example, it can move products from a manufacturer directly to the customer with minimal handling and time. Lake Washington Partners bought the site and applied for the certificate as J&J New Kings Road LLC. The project is one of several projects under development by Lake Washington Partners, including a 562,000-squarefoot building in Texas. The existing portfolio of more than 8 million square feet of space includes Class A office space and industrial properties. For Becknell Industrial, the city issued a permit for Becknell Services to build a
185,686-square-foot speculative building on 18.7 acres at 12075 Pritchard Road in Westlake Industrial Park, which is west of Interstate 295. The senior vice president of the Lyons, Illinois-based company said previously that demand for warehouse space was outpacing supply. He said the building was designed for one or two industrial tenants, such as manufacturers and distributors. Colliers International Executive Vice President Guy Preston, who is working with Becknell, said the slab is being poured for the structure and construction is expected to be completed in April. He said no tenant has signed, but there is a lot of interest. Meanwhile, an industry project report shows that Becknell Industrial intends to expand its presence in Westlake Industrial Park with an estimated 160,000-square-foot speculative industrial building on 12.5 acres. Construction of the estimated $10 million project is expected to start in 2019. Preston said construction will start on the second building after a tenant is signed for the first. The projects join industrial
buildings planned by JacksonShaw, VanTrust Real Estate, Industrial Park Investments, NorthPoint Development, Pattillo Industrial Real Estate and Hillwood. “Jacksonville is in dire need of new product,” wrote Colliers International in its third-quarter Northeast Florida industrial research and forecast report. “It is critically important for Jacksonville to have a reasonable stock of good, modern industrial building supply available to help accommodate large sophisticated operations when they are ready to move,” it said. Third-quarter industrial reports for Jacksonville from commercial real estate companies found Northeast Florida vacancy as of Sept. 30 ranged from 2.8 percent to 4 percent, at or near record lows. They found rising rental rates as well. “A wave of new construction is expected to deliver within the next six to eight months, but is not expected to alleviate all of the pent-up tenant demand,” reports Jones Lang LaSalle. That means more development could be announced in 2019.
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What makes businesses, like Chick-fil-A, really stand out Skip the golden rule and treat others as they wish to be treated, says Michael Landers, founder of Culture Crossings Inc. BY JAY SCHLICHTER ASSOCIATE EDITOR
One reason many people and businesses fail has to do with the way they treat others, by adopting and living by the golden rule. While Michael Landers says the intent is good, the consultant and life coach believes treating others as you wish to be treated needs to have one word tweaked. Instead of assuming how a person wishes to be treated, the founder and president of Culture Crossings Inc. told several dozen NAIOP and Urban Land Institute members at the Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel that it should be how “they� wish to be treated. Landers, who was invited to speak at a Nov. 8 luncheon by the Northeast Florida chapters of
both organizations, used examples to prove his point. He said many people use exclamation points in their email messages, hug acquaintances or demand firm handshakes. “You’re not treating people the way they want to be treated. You’re doing what you want. You’re assuming I like hugs, firm handshakes and exclamation points,� Landers said. The author of “Culture Crossing: Discover the Key to Making Successful Connections in the New Global Era� has shared his advice internationally with clients like Apple and Google. He said his intent is to help others working in the multicultural marketplace recognize cultural cues, be open to alternate ways of thinking and identify opportunities to adopt their responses. “It’s a method that helps people to take some of the ‘cultural reflex’ out of the equation and set themselves up for success,� his website states. “The methodology is widely applicable, whether the goal is to increase sales, build strategic
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Michael Landers, the president and founder of Culture Crossings, shared his insight at the NAIOP and ULI luncheon Nov. 8 at the Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel.
partnerships or maximize the potential of a diverse customer base.� As part of his presentation, Landers said he has conducted an unscientific study by asking the same question everywhere he speaks: Where do people enjoy being a customer? Of the thousands of responses, Landers said the top two businesses folks enjoy the most are Chick-fil-A and Nordstrom, and both were picked
at the local event. His theory for why those companies always are mentioned is because they exceed expectations and go beyond what our “mental models� are for a fast-food restaurant and luxury department store. “Tell me about your expectations for a $7 or $8 lunch. The paper bag is going to be greasy and what about the customer service?� he asked, adding that
Chick-fil-A often rises above those standards. Landers added that excellent customer service is about more than just being courteous, efficient and caring. It’s following the model of treating clients as they believe they wish to be treated. JAYS@JAXDAILYRECORD.COM @JAY_SCHLICHTER (904) 356-2466
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Trade war with China impacting Rayonier AM
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Company says it has been absorbing China’s 5 percent tariff on imports of high-purity cellulose products from the U.S. Just like its former partner Rayonier Inc., Rayonier Advanced Materials Inc. says the trade war between the U.S. and China is having an impact on the company. During its quarterly conference call last week, Rayonier AM Chief Executive Paul Boynton said the threat of tariffs on the company’s high-purity cellulose sales to China seems to be impacting its stock. “Over the past month or so, we’ve seen our stock price decline by approximately 40 percent despite no public announcements from the company,” Boynton said. “As such, we believe the drift in share prices is seemingly driven by a combination of external factors, including our potential exposure to retaliatory tariffs or other adverse trade policy on our exports to China from the U.S. and the rapid decline in lumber prices.” Rayonier AM said China has imposed a 5 percent tariff on imports of high-purity cellulose products from the U.S. However, that isn’t having a major impact on the company’s finances. “We are currently absorbing the 5 percent tariff, equating to about $2 million per quarter, and while we supply these products from our U.S. operations, we’re working with our customers to reposition production of these products outside the U.S. if necessary,” Boynton said. High purity cellulose is Rayonier AM’s biggest business, accounting for $308 million of its $544 million in third-quarter revenue. Real estate development and timber company Rayonier Inc. said in its quarterly report two weeks ago that tariffs could impact shipments of logs to China from the company’s timberlands in the Northwest U.S. and New Zealand. Rayonier AM and Rayonier Inc. split into separate companies in 2014. Rayonier AM had not been in the lumber business since but it picked up seven sawmills in Canada as part of its acquisition of Montreal-based Tembec Inc. last year. Forest products accounted for $86 million in third-quarter revenue for Rayonier AM. Although the decline in lumber prices may be hurting the stock as Boynton said, Rayonier AM said it expects prices to rebound. Rayonier AM’s adjusted third-quarter earnings tripled
“We believe the drift in share prices is seemingly driven by a combination of external factors, including our potential exposure to retaliatory tariffs or other adverse trade policy on our exports to China from the U.S. and the rapid decline in lumber prices.” RAYONIER AM CHIEF EXECUTIVE PAUL BOYNTON
to 54 cents a share because of the addition of Tembec. However, the results were below analysts’ forecasts, which ranged from 55 cents to 75 cents, according to Yahoo Finance. Besides increasing earnings, the Tembec deal is expanding Rayonier AM’s headquarters. The company received approval in August for city and state incentives totaling $474,000 to expand its office in the Riverplace Tower on the Southbank and add 79 jobs to its existing 80 headquarters jobs.
FRP Holdings buys bonds, waits FRP Holdings Inc. last week reported third-quarter earnings of $2.2 million, or 22 cents a share, in its first full quarter since selling off most of its operating properties. The Jacksonville-based real estate developer sold its portfolio of 41 industrial warehouses, mainly in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area for $358.9 million in May. After the sale, FRP has few operating properties remaining but is holding $260 million in cash on its balance sheet that it is looking to invest. “No longer will we build and hold buildings. Our business plan going forward is to play to our strength, which is taking raw land and converting it into developed land or developed projects which have vastly increased value,” CEO John Baker said during FRP’s quarterly conference call. “We are not an NOI (net operating income) play today. We are a value creation play that opportunistically monetizes our assets,” he said. Baker said FRP is investing the cash in bonds as it waits on investment opportunities. “This enables us to generate income while preserv-
ing liquidity. The next part of our transformation is the redeployment of our cash in projects that we are confident will yield higher returns than our old buy and hold strategy,” he said.
Cannae explains investment portfolio Monetizing investments also is the strategy of Cannae Holdings Inc., the investment company spun off last year from title insurance company Fidelity National Financial Inc. The strategy makes Cannae’s earnings difficult to decipher but the company did explain the state of its major investments during its quarterly report last week. Cannae restructured its investment in several restaurant chains but retains a majority stake in two companies which operate the O’Charley’s, Ninety Nine Restaurants, Village Inn and Bakers Square chains. It will continue to own about 24 percent of human resources technology company Ceridian HCM Holding Inc. after Ceridian’s initial public offering in April and an upcoming secondary stock sale. Cannae also said last week it expects to end up with a 25 percent stake in Dun & Bradstreet. Cannae in August announced it was partnering with other investors to buy the business data firm for $6.9 billion. That deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2019. Cannae is headquartered in Las Vegas but is run by executives of Jacksonville-based Fidelity.
Arc Group reveals Tilted Kilt terms ARC Group Inc., owner of the Dick’s Wings & Grill chain, announced financial terms
last week for its deal to buy the Tilted Kilt Pub and Eatery. Jacksonville-based ARC Group will pay just $10 to buy the assets of Tilted Kilt, which operates 34 restaurants. However, it will assume about $1.8 million in debt and future payment obligations of $1.5 million. ARC Group also will issue about 1.4 million shares of its stock. The total value of the deal is about $5 million. ARC Group, which owns or franchises 23 Dick’s Wings locations, agreed in June to buy Tilted Kilt but was working on the finances of the deal at the time and did not announce terms.
Black Knight buys real estate data firm Jacksonville-based mortgage technology company Black Knight Inc. said last week it acquired Ernst Publishing Co., a provider of technology and closing cost data for the real estate and home finance industries. Terms of the deal were not announced. Ernst is a 29-year-old company based in Albany, New York.
NASCAR offers to buy International Speedway
Stock car racing governing body NASCAR is a private company controlled by the family of NASCAR founder Bill France. International Speedway Corp. is a publicly traded company operating the Daytona International Speedway and 12 other racetracks and while it is separate from NASCAR, it also is controlled by the France family. That can be puzzling but the confusion could be ending
because NASCAR last week made an offer to buy the shares of International Speedway not owned by the France family. The family has voting control of 74 percent of International Speedway’s stock, according to its most recent proxy statement. NASCAR CEO James France, son of Bill, is chairman of Daytona Beach-based International Speedway. His niece, Lesa France Kennedy, is CEO of International Speedway and president of Daytona Beachbased NASCAR. Because of those ties, International Speedway said a committee of four independent directors will evaluate the proposal. NASCAR is offering $42 a share, which it said is a 14 percent premium to International Speedway’s 30-day average price of $36.91 before the offer was announced. “We believe the industry would benefit from structural change in order to best position the sport on a going forward basis,” France and Kennedy said in a letter addressed to International Speedway’s board.
Analyst downgrades Landstar System Goldman Sachs analyst Matt Reustle last week downgraded Jacksonville-based trucking company Landstar System Inc. from “buy” to “neutral,” saying pressure on truck rates limits the potential “upside” in its shares. “Landstar’s operating model is the most susceptible (in our coverage) to movements in trucking spot rates which we expect will gradually decline in 2019,” Reustle said in his research note. MBASCH@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM
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REAL ESTATE
Top 10 sales of the week BY SCOTT SAILER • EDITORIAL RESEARCH DIRECTOR
Here are the top 10 real estate sales in Northeast Florida, comprising Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties. The sales were recorded Nov. 5-9.
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The Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel sold for $24.3 million, 53.8 percent more than its 2015 sales price.
$24,300,000
$20,020,000
$9,853,966
$9,000,000
$5,000,000
10605 Deerwood Park Blvd., Jacksonville, Duval County
4360 Deerwood Lake Parkway, Jacksonville, Duval County
1677 Rebar Road, U.S. 301 Highway S., and Yellow Water Road, Jacksonville, Duval County
9317 Atlantic Blvd., Jacksonville, Duval County
7534 Beach Blvd., Jacksonville, Duval County
Type: Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel Size: 3.74 acres Buyer: RBHV Jacksonville LLC Seller: PHG-AREP III Jacksonville LLC Previous sale: $15,800,000 in 2015
Type: Lake Lofts at Deerwood apartments Size: 5.8 acres Buyer: Lake Lofts LLC Seller: KRG Jacksonville Deerwood Lake LLC
Type: Heavy industrial Size: 558.29 acres Buyer: CMC Steel US LLC Seller: Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc.
Type: CB Square Shopping Center Size: 6.27 acres Buyer: CB Squared Investments LLC, Core Atlantic LLC, and Core Atlantic Manager LLC Seller: Mibarev Development I LLC Previous sale: $8,118,000 in 2015
Type: Shopping center Size: Not available Buyer: River City EDU Management LLC Seller: 1980 Unionport Associates LLC and 2961 Marion Realty Associates LLC
$3,800,000
$1,943,951
$1,725,000
$1,725,000
$1,450,818
10568 Old St. Augustine Road, Jacksonville, Duval County
9625 Florida Mining Blvd. E., Jacksonville, Duval County
136 Eastport Road, Jacksonville, Duval County
136 Eastport Road, Jacksonville, Duval County
Tidal Pointe Circle, Jacksonville, Duval County
Type: Villages of Mandarin Shopping Center Size: 2.7 acres Buyer: Sans Family LLC Seller: SBL Orange Park Investments Ltd. Previous sale: $800,000 in 1994
Type: Heavy industrial Size: 9.27 acres Buyer: CMC Steel US LLC Seller: Gerdau Ameristeel US Inc.
Type: Light manufacturing Size: 11.05 acres Buyer: Eastport Road Holdings LLC Seller: Westrock Eastport Road LLC
Type: Light manufacturing Size: 11.05 acres Buyer: Carter Brereton Living Trust and Willian Carter Brereton Trustee Seller: Westrock Eastport Road LLC
Type: Tidal Pointe at Southside Quarter, 18 single-family and townhomes Size: Not available Buyer: Weekley Homes LLC Seller: CND-Southside Quarter LLC
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THE CAWTON REPORT
City takes step to remove Hart Bridge ramps begin a second phase eventually that would expand and widen East Bay Street. Curry’s Chief of Staff Brian Hughes said previously the project will begin with or without federal funding. Removing the highways and reconfiguring Gator Bowl Boulevard is estimated to take 18 months. “However, this time frame can be somewhat lengthened or shortened depending on the selected design-builder’s design and construction schedule response in its proposal,” Ford said. It is unclear when lane closures could begin.
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The request for qualifications is part of the process to select a contractor. The city of Jacksonville will seek contractors in January to dismantle the elevated highway ramps that connect the Hart Bridge to Downtown. According to Mayor Lenny Curry’s office, the request for qualifications will be issued in January in the hope of securing a design-builder by the end of 2019. It’s one of several required steps before the city can start the project in the next two years. The Curry administration considers removing the elevated roads as necessary to improve freight traffic in the Talleyrand area. It also could benefit Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan, who wants to pursue a multibillion-dollar mixed-use project along the Downtown Northbank. City spokeswoman Tia Ford said the city is developing a design criteria package for the project, which will outline the technical and design requirements. Contractors who respond to the RFQ will need to provide and explain their relevant experience, financial capacity to complete the project, examples of similar work and other information. A draft of the RFQ was not available. Contractors will be scored
Moratorium on internet cafes approved
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The city wants to remove the elevated Hart Bridge ramps, citing improved freight traffic in the Tallyrand area. Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan also wants them removed as part of efforts to redevelop the Northbank and area near TIAA Bank Field.
based on qualifications. The top-scoring companies will be encouraged to submit responses to a request for proposals, which likely would be issued after July or August. Legislation was introduced Tuesday to Jacksonville City Council seeking to appropriate a $12.5 million grant from the Florida Department of Transportation. The funds match what’s been allocated in the city’s Capital Improvement Program. The city would remove a
half-mile-long stretch of elevated roadways between A. Philip Randolph Boulevard and Festival Park Avenue. A new grade-level ramp will be installed near Festival Park Avenue for traffic entering and exiting the Hart Bridge. Another section of the expressway that routes traffic to and from Gator Bowl Boulevard and East Duval, Monroe, Adams and Forsyth streets would remain. The city also is pursuing a $12.5 million federal grant to
For the next six months, the city of Jacksonville will not issue certificates of use and will withhold other approvals for internet cafes. The move is in response to the growing number of the establishments opening across Duval County that possibly violate state law, which bans adult arcades. The bill passed as part of the consent agenda during the council’s bimonthly meeting. Bills on the consent agenda are adopted as a group after they’ve received unanimous support in standing council committees. District 2 council member Al Ferraro introduced legislation in October and held public meetings to discuss the approval pause. He said his constituents and those in other districts are concerned the businesses are attracting crime and contributing to unhealthy habits like illegal gambling. “We may not be able to shut them down, but we can stop others from opening,” he said. The problem, according to Ferraro, is that new internet cafes may be a front for adult arcades, where customers
gamble money by playing games of chance. Internet cafes allow customers to purchase time on a computer terminal to access the web and play web-based games of skill. Games of chance, like slot machines, are allowed only at state-approved casinos or racetracks, or if they’re located on Indian reservations. Other card games are allowed at other licensed facilities. Ferraro said he believes some of the existing facilities are operating without a COU, which typically isn’t discovered until a complaint is filed or an annual inspection requires the fire marshal to check for one. When businesses apply for a COU, they sign an affidavit stating the business will operate legally. Of the estimated 140 applications submitted to the city since 2016, the Planning and Development Department said 90 have been approved. City officials believe more are operating. Council members began regulating internet cafes through legislation in 2009. State law pre-empts local regulations, meaning the city’s hands are tied because operating an adult arcade is now a criminal matter. Ferraro plans to spend the next six months working with the city’s Planning and Development Department to restrict the business through zoning and possibly by other ways. Those restrictions could include banning internet cafes from being too close to schools and churches, limiting the number of cafes within a certain geographic area and other changes. He expects legislation to be created before the moratorium ends next summer. DCAWTON@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM @DAVIDCAWTON (904) 356-2466
Aerotek: Company employs more than 8,000 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
It said parent company Allegis Group and sister company TEKsystems are in the same building. Aerotek said it will continue to operate an existing field office in Liberty Center at 7077 Bonneval Road in the Southpoint area. It said that office provides recruiting and staffing services directly to local customers. Allegis Group has been building out about 58,000 square feet of space at Capital Plaza at Deerwood Park, permits show. Aerotek has not confirmed the total square footage but said it began to build the Jacksonville corporate location in 2017. The city approved permits recently totaling almost $1.6 million for Dav-Lin Interior Contractors Inc. to build-out almost 42,000 square feet of office space on the first floor and on part of the second at the four-story Capital Plaza address for Allegis Group. That follows a permit issued in January for Adams Interior Contractors Inc. to build-out a 16,000-square-foot space for
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Aerotek is creating a corporate office at Capital Plaza at Deerwood Park Building 1 at 10401 Deerwood Park Blvd.
Allegis on the second floor at a cost of $433,049. That takes Allegis to a buildout of at least $2 million. Allegis appears to lease at least 58,000 square feet of space at the building, a size that could accommodate several hundred employees. Aerotek said it employs more than 8,000 internal employees
and 115,000 contract employees and that it is the largest staffing and recruiting company in the U.S. “The Jacksonville corporate location will allow Aerotek to better serve its clients and contractors, enhance strategic delivery capabilities and support growing business needs,” according to the release.
Allegis Group previously posted a job for a vice president of operations in Jacksonville. The job description said Allegis Group serves “virtually every major industry, and we’ve placed exceptional people in hundreds of thousands of roles and positions.” A job link Wednesday announced a “New corporate office, new opportunities” as
Aerotek opens its “third corporate headquarters in Jacksonville.” Job titles include instructional designer, business operations associate, onboarding operations associate, time and expense associate, HR assistant, onboarding operations supervisor and time and expense operations supervisor. Allegis Group Inc., based in Hanover, Maryland, reported $12.3 billion in revenue among more than 500 locations worldwide. Allegis began in 1983 with the founding of Aerotek, a contract employment and consulting company. Its companies now include Aerotek; TEKsystems; Aston Carter; Allegis Global Solutions; Major, Lindsey & Africa; Allegis Partners; MarketSource; EASi; The Stamford Group; and Getting Hired. TEKsystems offers technology and talent services. KMATHIS@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM @MATHISKB (904) 356-2466
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Mark Wallace, executive vice president of sales and marketing of CSX Corp., was named to the Wolfson Children’s Hospital board of directors.
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Dr. Kent Thielen was elected vice president of Mayo Clinic and CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida by the Mayo Clinic board of trustees. Thielen, a member of Mayo’s staff since 1996, will succeed Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, who will become president and CEO of Mayo Clinic in January. Thielen serves in Thielen several leadership roles in radiology. As chair of the Midwest Department of Radiology, he leads a staff of 260 physicians and physicists, 52 residents,
24 fellows and 1,500 allied health staff. The Mayo board of trustees also named two new members: Jay Alix, founder of AlixPartners LLP, a business advisory firm, and George Bilicic, vice chair of Investment Banking, head of Midwest Investment Banking and head of Power, Energy and Infrastructure at Lazard Freres & Co. LLC. Dr. Ana Sanchez, Community Hospice & Palliative Care chief medical director, received the City Rescue Mission’s Difference Maker Award. Sharhonda Rush, Jacksonville Transportation Authority controller, was elected to the Oracle Applications User Group board of directors.
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INDUSTRIAL Westlake Land Management Inc., 12075 Pritchard Road, contractor is Becknell Services LLC, 185,686 square feet, new building, $7 million. OFFICE, BANK, PROFESSIONAL Cross Regions Group LLC, 13553 Atlantic Blvd., contractor is Urban Partners Construction LLC, 4,744 square feet, tenant build-out, $339,000. Watson Realty Corp., 12708 San Jose Blvd., contractor is Watson Home Improvement LLC, structural repair, $15,000. RESTAURANTS Fuzzy’s Taco Shop, 8221 Southside Blvd., contractor is FGC Inc., 2,995 square feet, tenant build-out, $251,000. ROOFING
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BUSINESS IN BRIEF UNF business school makes Princeton Review list: The University of North Florida Coggin College of Business was named among the nation’s 252 top business schools for 2019 by The Princeton Review. It’s the 12th consecutive year the school has been on the list. Princeton Review ratings are based on categories including academic experience, admissions selectivity, career, interesting professors and access to professors using student surveys and institutional data. The Princeton Review does not rank the schools.
These are the largest commercial building permits by job cost issued Tuesday by the city of Jacksonville.
Branch opens: First Florida Credit Union opened its fifth branch in Northeast Florida at 1461 Kingsley Ave. in Orange Park. Sculptures for Hemming Park: The Friends of Hemming Park and the University of North Florida will add three student sculptures to the park in the spring. A donation by the Haskell Foundation will pay for construction of the sculptures, which will remain in the park for one year and then sold with the proceeds going to the artists.
Wawa, 2500 Monument Road, contractor is Stonebridge Construction Services LLC, new roof, $107,500. Frito-Lay, 6701 Phillips Industrial Blvd., contractor is R&B Roofing LLC, roof replacement, $107,000. Avalon Hill Apartments, 7557 Arlington Expressway, contractor is American Roofing of Jacksonville LLC, roof replacement, $75,000. SIGNS Mavis Discount Tire, 9950 San Jose Blvd., contractor is General Sign Service Corp., four permits for wall and ground signs, $9,000. Diamond S at 701 W. Adams Street, Diamond S Building, Elkins Construction Inc., Orange Legal Inc., 701 W. Adams St., contractor
is Harbinger LLC, 10 permits for directional signs, $7,500. Mavis Discount Tire, 7390 103rd St., contractor is General Sign Service Corp., three permits for wall and ground signs, $7,000. Mavis Discount Tire, 10101 Atlantic Blvd., contractor is General Sign Service Corp., three permits for wall signs, $6,000. Mavis Discount Tire, 5942 University Blvd. W., contractor is General Sign Service Corp., three permits for wall signs, $6,000. McDonald’s, Drive Thru, 11130 Lem Turner, contractor is Cox Electric, 10 permits for wall and directional signs, $5,000. CCS, 10393 Fortune Way, contractor is River City Advertising Inc., two permits for wall and ground signs, $3,200. Just Floors, 6945 Phillips Parkway Drive S., contractor is Shimp Sign & Design Inc., wall sign, $1,722. EFI Global, 2628 Port Industrial Drive, contractor is River City Advertising Inc., wall sign, $1,200. Continuum Behavior Medicine, 6467 Greenland Road, contractor is the owner, two permits for ground and wall signs, $1,000. STORES, MERCANTILE Wawa, 5735 Philips Highway, contractor is M.E. Construction Inc., two permits for new buildings, $207,400. Coggin Honda, 11003 Atlantic Blvd., contractor is RLH Construction LLC, 450 square feet, renovate restroom, $120,000. Compiled by Scott Sailer
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DOWNTOWN
VISIONS
Four business leaders with a financial stake in the urban core share what they believe Downtown needs.
MICHAEL CORRIGAN President and CEO, Visit Jacksonville Duval County Tax Collector, July 1, 2011-June 1, 2018 Jacksonville City Council, 2003-11
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y organization, Visit Jacksonville, is always trying to present Jacksonville in a positive image. We go around the country trying to promote people to come here. It’s amazing when you ask, “Do you know where Jacksonville is?” “Oh sure, I know where it is. It’s near Miami.” “It’s near Orlando.” Most people don’t know that Florida exists over Orlando, so that’s the work that we’re trying to do as we’re recruiting people to come here and explain that we really aren’t the rest of Florida and we are different. We’re getting ready at some point in the near future to have a very interesting conversation about the convention center. The recruiter called me about a year ago and said, “Would you consider going to Visit Jacksonville?” When I researched it and found what the future of Downtown Jacksonville was going to be, I said I’d love to help lead that conversation. I look forward to having that opportunity. You think we’re working on conventions for this year. In reality, we’re working on five years from now. The further reality is when the convention center conversation gets moving, the day that the first shovels are put in the ground, Visit Jacksonville should have already been selling that convention center for three to five years. As we start having these conversations, we
have to make sure that we are having an open dialogue, that we can start recruiting conventions to come to whatever facility that we’re going to have five to 10 years from now. Over a thousand hotel rooms are slated to be built in Downtown Jacksonville. In Downtown, we’re all working to get enough housing units and enough hotels and a strong enough convention facility that people will come here and can have fun when they get here. Think about when you go to a convention. At 5 o’clock you walk out the door and you’re thinking, “OK, what am I going to do tonight?” We do not have enough “What can I do tonight?” in Downtown Jacksonville to be a very viable convention destination. There’s much more to bringing people here than just signing them up. Once we make a commitment to them and promise them something, we make sure that when that group gets here, they have everything they need. It’s obviously the meeting space and meeting rooms. It’s also “Where do I go to get laundry done? Where is your grocery store?” My team’s job is to get as many people as possible to come see Jacksonville. If we are doing our job properly, we’re going to have people come in town that want to move here, want to live here and want to build their business here.
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Aundra Wallace says Jacksonville can be one of the top growth economies in the country.
AUNDRA WALLACE President, JAXUSA Partnership, began Oct. 1, 2018 CEO of the Downtown Investment Authority, 2013-18
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hat makes Jacksonville different from other cities is its Downtown, quite frankly, is a blank canvas. You’ve got property Downtown, whether it’s historic properties or vacant parcels that you have an opportunity to develop for affordable housing or mixed-use development. That’s why I chose to take the job to start up the Downtown Investment Authority because it gave me the opportunity to work on riverfront development, on infill development and on almost any type of project that I wanted to. When I talk to companies that have a young population, as well as empty nesters, I say there are opportunities to live within Downtown. There are 2,500 units of apartments in development and we need that to grow our Downtown. That allows me to continue to sell the region as we go abroad and other locations to seek companies to say we have a plethora of housing opportunities for people to live in the actual urban core. Let’s talk about tourism opportunities, such as the Prime Osborn Convention Center. We’re going to have a conversation that we’re missing convention center business. Nobody’s going to build you a convention center for free. If you don’t want to do it, stop getting mad about what the Prime Osborn is or is not and say that you don’t want to do it. If you do want to do it, have a good conversation about how we’re
going to pay for it and it gets down to where, how much and when. The recent Downtown announcements that we’ve had – VyStar Credit Union, Florida State College at Jacksonville, SharedLabs, Macquarie Group, Rayonier Advanced Materials, One Call – JAXUSA and the city agencies work together to make these types of deals happen. One of the things that we want to talk about from a Jacksonville Transportation Authority Smart Region smart corridor standpoint is taking Bay Street from the Prime Osborn Convention Center all the way up to the sports complex. Having that innovation ecosystem right here in the heart of our Downtown will help our Downtown growth. Where do I see Jacksonville and JAXUSA in five to 10 years? I see us as one of the No. 1 growth economies in this country. Don’t forget, Jacksonville has the most diverse economy of any region in this state. What we don’t do well is tell our own story about how great a community that we are. That’s going to mean getting over whatever inferiority complexes that we might have compared to other cities and own who we are. We’re Jacksonville and damn it, we are proud to be Jacksonville and we are going to be a darned good city moving forward. Mean it and do it and be proud of it.
Michael Corrigan says Visit Jacksonville is working to recruit conventions years into the future.
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ELIAS HIONIDES Vice President, Petra Management
P Eugene Profit is developing the 89-unit Hotel Indigo at Laura and Bay streets.
EUGENE PROFIT Founder, Profit Investments Owner, 20 W. Adams St. and 100 W. Bay St. Former NFL cornerback with the New England Patriots and Washington Redskins
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here are some particular challenges in working in the Downtown area that’s sort of on the fringe of breaking out. 100 West Bay is a building my group acquired back at the end of 2013. It is an adaptive reuse of an existing 79,000-square-foot building that we acquired as a “B” office building that was at 16 percent occupancy with the intention of bringing occupancy up and flipping it to some other user. But as we got into the process and into Jacksonville, we started to look at different opportunities. We didn’t tell anyone what we were doing because frankly, I didn’t know anyone or whether it was going to be successful and sometimes it’s better to kind of keep your mouth shut. What we are going to do is convert this into about an 89-unit Hotel Indigo boutique property at Laura and Bay streets. We’re going to be activating that corner. We are fully entitled and our design documents are at about 80 percent completion. All we need now is to complete our capital stack to get construction underway, so we hope to be online toward the end of 2019. 20 West Adams is a project we just finished. It was an office building. When we first started looking at properties in Jacksonville, I asked one of my advisers to find a property that we could clean up, an opportunistic type of
investment. The guy had owned it for 20 or 30 years and it had been boarded up. It was across the street from The Carling, which is a publicprivate partnership the city had done quite effectively. We started to figure out what to do with this building and I was still brand new at construction development. I called contractor Buck Smoak (formerly with Danis Construction, which renovated the building, and now with Auld & White Constructors). This project would probably still be sitting there dormant if not for him taking me through the process and making sure things moved along and that we got in touch with Aundra Wallace, CEO of the Downtown Investment Authority. They had given me a call to ask whether we would consider doing student housing with Florida State College at Jacksonville. We said absolutely. The fact we were able to get FSCJ to sign a lease was critical in getting financing. By having a 10-year lease with the college, by the DIA and the city coming in and putting some incentives in place, we were able to plow our way through. There are 28-30 students living in the units and the culinary café has been online. This is one of our first successes in the city and now that we’re done with this, we’re going onto 100 West Bay and the Indigo Hotel. I hope to have you all out for a cocktail on our rooftop.
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etra Management Inc. is my family’s company. I’m the vice president and we’re a real estate developer and broker. I recently moved to Springfield, so I’m living in the urban core. We mainly specialize in historic, unique properties in the urban core and at the Beaches. We’re working Downtown on the seven-story Jones Brothers Furniture redevelopment and the adjacent one-story Western Union building. The historic 39,000-square-foot Jones Brothers Building was built in 1926. Both are being converted. The project is on the north side of Downtown at Church and Hogan streets, catty-corner to City Hall. Jones Brothers is going to be a 28-unit apartment building with a first-floor lobby and 2,500 square feet of retail and office. Five units will be workforce housing for those making up to 80 percent of the annual average median income in Duval County. The rest are market rate. The Western Union Building is about 10,000 square feet. The entire building will be used for retail and office. It’s a one-story building with the height of a two-story building, which allows us the ability to put in mezzanine levels or to have different heights for certain tenants. We see it really adding to the vibrancy of this side of Downtown. In the back, we’ve got 36 parking spaces for the residents and business component. The project uses federal historic tax credits. Aundra Wallace
helped us get incentives from the city from the Historic Preservation Trust Fund as well as a lowinterest loan from the Downtown Investment Authority. We are preserving the original Jones Brothers Furniture signage that the National Park Service wants to see. They don’t want it repainted. They don’t want it messed with. We do intend to light up Jones Brothers in tube lighting. We want to bring back that vintage feel. Jones Brothers is in an area of Downtown that potentially has the largest amount of historic building stock that is vacant. We’re going to work on rebranding the area as The North End and we want to try and promote this as a catalyst. The Ambassador Hotel was recently acquired. We’ve been talking with them about this branding effort and we want Jones Brothers to be the centerpiece and hopefully act to bring new development, bring new life and bring retailers and businesses to the area. It’s an opportunity for this side of Downtown with the historic building stock. We can create a great fabric that feels very “Jacksonville,” with the potential for 400-500 residential units in a three-block area that essentially is noncontributing now. We’re trying to work in a team effort to make this area of Downtown Jacksonville vibrant and filled with residents because the density is what we’ve got to drive home Downtown and across the urban core to help bring and sustain our commercial tenants for the long term.
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COURTS & THE LAW
Program, dogs help improve lives of many military vets Former McGuireWoods attorney is now the CEO of K9s for Warriors, which graduated its 500th team this week. BY MAX MARBUT ASSOCIATE EDITOR
The connection between the legal community and military veterans was front and center Wednesday when the Jacksonville Bar Association invited K9s For Warriors CEO Rory Diamond to its meeting at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront. Diamond was an attorney with the McGuireWoods firm before he became the nonprofit’s chief executive four years ago. K9s For Warriors rescues dogs, trains them as service animals and matches them with military veterans who suffer
from post-traumatic stress disorder. The veterans train with their new companions for three weeks at the organization’s 9-acre campus in Nocatee. Diamond said the first day of the program is devoted to paperwork because “there is a lawyer running the place” and the second day is when the veteran meets his dog. “That’s when you see two souls come together. That’s when you see the healing begin,” Diamond said. After four years of matching veterans with dogs, results show measurable improvement in the lives of the veterans. “The warriors are happier, their marriages last longer and their children do better in school,” Diamond said. Another benefit is that the veteran often can reduce or eliminate the need for medication to treat PTSD. Greg Wells, a former Army combat engineer who served
K9s For Warriors CEO Rory Diamond was an attorney with McGuireWoods before he took over leadership of the nonprofit.
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From left, Christian George, Jacksonville Bar Association board member and president of The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division; Greg Wells, Army veteran and K9s For Warriors trainer; service dog Utah; and K9s For Warriors CEO Rory Diamond.
tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan and returned home with PTSD, was matched with his service dog, Utah, more than three years ago. He said it changed his life. “I was on 14 different medications, but I don’t need PTSD meds now. The only thing that worked for me is my dog,” he said. “He makes me a better man, a better husband and a better father.” Diamond said when he went to work at K9s For Warriors, the program operated in an old house with 12 employees and a $600,000 budget. In the past four years, the organization has moved to its facility in St. Johns County and has grown to 80 employees and a $12 million annual budget. The newest campus, in Gainesville, graduated its first class of veterans and their dogs this week, bringing the total number of veterans served to 500, Diamond said.
A facility will open early next year in San Antonio to serve veterans in western states. “Our goal is to have five campuses in the U.S.,” Diamond said. The nonprofit has partnered with the American Kennel Club, Petco, Dell computers and more than 30 service dog agencies to develop a federal registry of service dogs. When implemented, it will make it easier for people who need service dogs to travel on airplanes and have easier access to other services, Diamond said. He invited the attorneys to visit the campus in Nocatee for a guided tour and to meet veterans and their dogs in training. “You will feel better about the world when you leave,” Diamond said. STORM HELP NEEDED
In other business, Christian George, managing partner of Akerman Jacksonville and president of The Florida Bar Young
Lawyers Division, said help is needed for victims of Hurricane Matthew in the Panhandle. In partnership with the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division, attorneys are staffing a toll-free hotline and providing free legal counsel for people with housing issues. “Some landlords are still charging rent even though the dwellings are uninhabitable and some are throwing people into the street so they can try to get FEMA money. We need more volunteers,” George said. Visit floridabar.org for information about resources and how to volunteer. For JBA members who weren’t able to attend the meeting, which was approved by The Florida Bar for 0.5 hours of CLE credit, a video CLE of the program will be available at jaxbar.org. MMARBUT@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM (904) 356-2466
Former dean is suing University of North Florida Mark Tumeo claims he was coerced into resigning. BY MAX MARBUT ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Mark Tumeo, former dean of the University of North Florida College of Computing, Engineering and Construction, has brought a lawsuit against the university’s board of trustees contending he was forced to resign under duress Oct. 3 after a telephone call from a school official. Tumeo is represented by Tad Delegal of Delegal Law Offices. Joanna Norris, UNF spokeswoman, said the university doesn’t comment on pending litigation, but provided an email sent Oct. 3 to students and faculty members:
“Dr. Mark Tumeo, dean of the College of Computing, Engineering and Construction, has Delegal resigned effective immediately. Tumeo engaged in behavior on campus Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 2, which was reported as a consensual sex act. It was unbecoming of a University official and doesn’t comply with the standards expected of members of our University community. “It’s important to note that the conduct didn’t directly involve students or other University employees. Interim Provost Dr. Pam Chally has appointed Associate Dean Dr. Chip Klostermeyer to the position of interim CCEC Dean until a search for a new dean
can be conducted,” it said. According to a UNF Police Department report that was published by unfspinnaker.com, the student news site, an officer was called to Hodges Stadium the afternoon of Oct. 2 by a faculty member who said he observed Tumeo and another man engaged in sexual activity on the outside stairwell adjacent to the press box. Tumeo at first denied, but then admitted the activity to campus police, who noted in the report that “Proper administrative notifications were made regarding Mr. Tumeo’s actions.” On the morning of Oct. 3, Tumeo, who was hired as dean and named a tenured professor in June 2011, was called on his cellphone by Chally, according to the complaint. Tumeo says that Chally advised him that he had only two minutes
to determine whether to resign from his position as dean, as well as his position of tenured faculty member. When Tumeo asked for more time to consider his options and to provide a defense against termination, Chally told him she would permit him three minutes to resign from employment, according to the complaint. “Based on the short window of time that Plaintiff was given to decide whether to resign, and his concern that failure to do so would result in adverse publicity and personal embarrassment,” Tumeo submitted his resignation within the three minutes that Chally permitted him, the complaint states. Tumeo contends in the complaint that he was not given a reasonable time in which to make a decision whether to resign, was
not permitted to select the effective date of his resignation and was not permitted sufficient time to obtain the advice of counsel. The complaint seeks a judgment that Tumeo’s resignation was involuntary, reinstatement to his position as a tenured faculty member with the right to maintain that position absent the due process provided to tenured faculty members of UNF and compensation for lost wages and benefits, court costs and attorney’s fees. “It’s a question of whether he was coerced into resigning and if the court finds he resigned under duress,” said Delegal. The case will be heard by Circuit Judge Kevin Blazs. MMARBUT@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM (904) 356-2466
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Burr & Forman Jacksonville partners, front row from left, John “B.J.” Ibach, managing partner Greg Lunny and Adrian Rust. Back row, Mike Waskiewicz, Chris Strohmenger and Tim May. Not pictured: Ellsworth Summers, Scott Thomas and Troy Smith.
Burr & Forman acquires McNair law firm Firm that opened office in Jacksonville three years ago will have 19 offices in eight states. BY MAX MARBUT ASSOCIATE EDITOR
Burr & Forman is growing. The Birmingham, Alabamabased law firm opened an office in Jacksonville three years ago with three partners and since has grown to nine partners, seven associate attorneys and a staff attorney. This month the firm acquired, effective in January, the McNair law firm with its 84 attorneys in seven offices in North Carolina and South Carolina. That will expand Burr & Forman to 19 offices in eight states in the Southeast and more than 350 legal professionals who specialize in transactions, litigation and
regulatory issues across a range of businesses and industries. Practice areas include banking, economic development, public finance, labor and employment, manufacturing, transportation, intellectual property, real estate, food and beverage, hospitality and health care. “We pretty much cover the waterfront on the civil side – predominantly litigation – but we have a vibrant transactional practice as well,” said Jacksonville managing partner Greg Lunny. The acquisition of McNair is part of Burr & Forman’s business plan. “The way the firm has grown is to acquire talent in place,” Lunny said. Jacksonville was the firm’s fourth office in Florida after Tampa, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale. “Burr & Forman made a commitment to Florida and Jacksonville was always part of the strategy. The firm has no particular
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McNair will strengthen that position, he said. “A law firm is a business. If we need expertise, we can find someone in the firm in another office,” Lunny said. He said when the firm was established in Jacksonville, the partners practiced mostly in
banking and finance, then diversified with the addition of business transactions, real estate and construction and health care law. The firm anticipates continued growth in its health care practice, considering the major providers in the market such as Baptist Health, St. Vincent’s, UF Health and Mayo Clinic. “Jacksonville is a destination health care city. It’s a really positive factor in our community,” Lunny said. With the local economic growth trends, manufacturing and logistics also will continue to be strong markets for Burr & Forman in Jacksonville. “We have a diverse and robust economy,” said Lunny. “We are bullish on Jacksonville and we are bullish on Burr & Forman in Jacksonville.” MMARBUT@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM (904) 356-2466
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Annual parade sponsored by The Law Offices of Ron Sholes part of festivities. The Jacksonville legal community took time this week to celebrate not only Veterans Day, but also the 243rd birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps. Thousands lined Downtown streets Monday for the city’s annual parade, sponsored and led by The Law Offices of Ron Sholes, comprising military veterans who are members of the Bar. There was a special session of Veterans Drug Treatment Court on Wednesday. Duval County Judge Mose Floyd, who presides over the court, is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel. He called the session a “safety stand down” and advised the veterans to be safe during the holiday season. “Take care of yourselves. Use your discretion and judgment,” Floyd said. He then recounted some of the history of the Marine Corps, including a pivotal World War I battle near Paris when a brigade of Marines overcame the odds to defeat a larger and better-equipped German force that was dug in and raked the Marines with machine-gun fire. When a French officer told the Marines to turn around and leave the field, the Marine commander said, “Retreat, hell, we just got here,” Floyd said. After the war, the French government named the field “The Woods of the Marine Brigade” in recognition of the sacrifice made to defeat the enemy. The Corps marked its 243rd birthday Saturday, the day before Veterans Day. The ceremony concluded when Floyd used his marine officer’s sword to cut a birth-
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The Law Offices of Ron Sholes sponsored the city’s Veterans Day Parade on Monday and led the procession Downtown from the Sports Complex to the Prime Osborn Convention Center.
who appear before them. To attend the ceremony, RSVP to Kayla Gothier at kayla. gothier@akerman.com.
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Duval County Judge Mose Floyd, a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, used his officer’s sword to cut a cake to celebrate the Marines’ 243rd birthday, part of the Veterans Treatment Court proceedings Wednesday.
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Attorneys on the council agenda Matters involving three Jacksonville attorneys were on the City Council agenda Tuesday. The ordinance authorizing renaming the Murray Hill Branch Library at 918 Edgewood Ave. S. the “Bill Brinton Murray Hill Branch Library” in honor of the late Rogers Towers attorney and public library advocate was approved. Former city Chief Assistant General Counsel and Inspector General Steve Rohan was appointed to the Civil Service Board replacing Deena Bateh Wallace for an unexpired term that will end June 30, 2020. Lewis, Longman & Walker shareholder and former Down-
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Judges’ anniversary celebration Dec. 6 There will be a 25th anniversary ceremony for U.S. Bankruptcy Judges Jerry Funk and Paul Glenn (not a retirement party) at 4 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Bryan Simpson U.S. Courthouse. The Jacksonville Bankruptcy Bar Association is the principal sponsor and will present the judges with individual books relating short personal stories of how they have had a positive impact upon the practitioners
Attorneys on the Seminole 100 list The Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at Florida State University’s College of Business released its 2019 Seminole 100 list and three local law firms are on it. Recognized as some of this year’s fastest-growing U.S. businesses owned by Florida State alumni are Owenby Law; Stone, Glass & Connolly; and Taylor, Day, Grimm & Boyd. Seminole 100 honorees will be recognized March 2 at the University Center Club in Tallahassee. The Seminole 100 Celebration ceremony will include a reception and awards dinner featuring the release of the final rankings and countdown of the Seminole 100.
Marshall Dennehey adds associates Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin added Hillary Albertson and Sean Reeves as associate attorneys in the firm’s Jacksonville office. Albertson joined the firm’s Professional Liability Department, focusing on construcAlbertson tion defect litigation and general professional liability defense. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and her J.D. from Stetson University College of Law. Reeves will work in the firm’s Casualty Department. He has experience litigating general liability matters and has represented insureds, self-insureds and corporations in cases involving motor vehicle negligence, products liability, personal injury, Reeves premises liability and warranty defense. His background includes aviation law after serving as a U.S. Army helicopter pilot. Reeves received his bachelor’s degree from the University of West Florida, an MBA from Saint Leo University and his J.D. from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. MMARBUT@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM (904) 356-2466
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Shareholder, Smith Hulsey & Busey Age: 38
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Chris Dix, a shareholder at Smith Hulsey & Busey, is chair of the Jacksonville Bar Association Legal Technology Committee and president of the Association of Certified E-discovery Specialists Jacksonville Chapter. Who or what inspired you to become a lawyer? In my fourth year as an accounting major, I realized that I did not want to be an accountant for the rest of my life. Going to law school provided me with three more years to figure out my future career plans (and also three more years of student tickets for Gator football games). As a law student, I became inspired to practice law upon graduation, especially during my time on the University of Florida Moot Court Team.
Hometown: Jacksonville Family: Married with two active boys Someone other than my spouse who inspires me: Tim Tebow
How do you relate your undergraduate education to your practice of law? Warren Buffett often says, “Accounting is the language of business.” As an attorney and CPA, my degree helps me advise clients regarding business disputes because I speak that language. How did you decide your practice area? And why have you chosen that? I always have enjoyed working with computers and technology. When I became an attorney, it was a natural fit for me to focus on electronic discovery, cybersecurity, data privacy breaches and other areas where there is an intersection between law and technology. What has been the biggest change in your practice area since you passed the Bar? When I started practicing law, we filed pleadings at the courthouse and served pleadings on opposing counsel by mail or fax. Now we are required to file and serve pleadings and documents electronically. While electronic filing and electronic service have dramatically reduced the volume of paper documents we generate and store in a case, the volume and variety of
Education: I’m a triple Gator. I went to the University of Florida for undergraduate, graduate and law school.
Favorite book: “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe” by C.S. Lewis
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evidence related to a case have dramatically increased. Letters and other forms of physical evidence have largely been replaced by emails, text messages and social media postings as the primary forms of evidence, especially in civil cases. What do you think will be the next biggest change in your area of law? State and federal data privacy laws will be strengthened as politicians find some rare common ground in responding to the increase of data breaches and other privacy-related harms that affect everyone. Attorneys will use automation and artificial intelligence to practice law more efficiently and cost-
effectively. Attorneys who ignore these trends and technologies will find it difficult to continue providing quality legal services to their clients. What community service have you pursued and why that? I enjoy teaching, whether it’s kids on a baseball field or attorneys in a courtroom. Helping people become better versions of themselves is inspiring to me. What’s your advice for new lawyers? Never go to a meeting without a pen and paper (or the digital equivalent). Actively search out and find mentors, even if you have to look outside of your firm or practice area.
Book I’m reading now: “Ready Player One” by Ernest Cline Websites and apps I can’t live without: Waze, Uber, Feedly, Pokemon Go and Fortnite Favorite nonwork activities: Playing and coaching baseball, basketball and Fortnite with my boys.
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RENEE PARENTEAU BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS • EDITOR
Renee Parenteau is a photographer and makeup artist who opened a studio in 2007 in Historic Springfield. She has traveled worldwide to work with celebrities that include Kenny Chesney, Denzel Washington, Selena Gomez, Trisha Yearwood, Ryan Lochte, Chelsea Handler, Sergio Garcia, Dion Sanders and Roberta Flack. Parenteau is fluent in English, Spanish and French and was the JAX Chamber Downtown Council’s 2016 Small Business Leader of the Year. There was a poster contest in Oregon. It was “be kind to animals” week, so we were to paint a poster and submit it. I won and was a finalist in the state. The principal was so enthusiastic about me winning. I got to go on TV and meet the governor and I won a transistor radio. That was a big deal back then. It was an aha moment. “Wow, I guess I’m an artist.”
I’ve been a professional makeup artist for more than 20 years. I started in Los Angeles working for photographers. I did the makeup for a lot of celebrities, so I was around the best photographers in the industry. I studied photography and now combine the makeup experience with the photography. I call it the celebrity experience and I try to offer that to the real estate agent, the executive, the local celebrity, and make everybody look good. I want to see their personality exude.
I studied fashion merchandising in college and right next to it was a makeup studio. I said that’s it. That’s what I want to do. My mom was great. She was a registered nurse and her father was a surgeon, but they never pushed me into a medical career. I moved to Los Angeles and found that it’s a lucrative career working in advertising as a makeup artist.
People walk in the door and say, “I hate having my picture taken. I’m not photogenic.” But they need a picture. If I do the makeup, that’s a chance to talk and get to know them. They know the makeup’s correct, the hair is correct, so it gives them a little confidence. We go into the studio and I make sure I light them well. I give them direction, so they know they’re doing the right thing, they’re looking the right way. I try to tap into what motivates them because that will make them feel relaxed and it comes out in their eyes and in their look. When I grew up, I wanted to be a barrel racer, I wanted to be a veterinarian. I loved horses. I was 12 or 13 years old when my parents divorced and we moved from Los Angeles. My mom thought it would be a great place for us to be raised in the mountains of Oregon. She was in a dentist’s office and she saw it in a magazine. We moved to the mountains of a small town in the country. I showed up in this little grade school that was so tiny it had two grades in one classroom. Talk about culture
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shock. I was acting like a city girl, but it didn’t take long. I soon adapted. My stepdad got me a horse. He had a farm. He taught us about hard work. He said, “Well, if you have a horse, you have to haul the hay, you have to clean out the stall.” It was my responsibility. That was a great life lesson.
I was married to somebody at the time from the West Coast. We were in LA and with traffic, that meant three hours one way. It was no quality of life for me. When he switched jobs where he could work from anywhere, he had good friends here and we moved to Jacksonville. I saw it as a new adventure. I liked Springfield. People were friendly in the neighborhood right away and welcoming. I started my photography and makeup business. Although it was the start of the recession, the referrals kept coming. People were supportive. I joined JAX Chamber. I still can’t believe how generous people are, and complimentary.
ABOUT PARENTEAU Title: Celebrity photographer and makeup artist Organization: Renee Parenteau Photography Education: B.A., Spanish, B.A., Comparative History of Ideas, University of Washington Family: Joe Snowberger Hometowns: Los Angeles, Silverton, Oregon, and now Jacksonville Hobbies: Travel, road cycling, sailing Website: renee parenteauphoto. com
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