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BUSINESS & LEGAL NEWS IN BAKER, CLAY, DUVAL, NASSAU AND ST. JOHNS COUNTIES
YULEE’S WILDLIGHT AREA SEES GROWTH SURGE
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THE MATHIS REPORT
Entertainment venue planned for St. Nicholas PAGE 6
BUSINESS STRATEGY
Photo by Monty Zickuhr
The entrance to the master-planned Wildlight community along Florida 200/A1A in Yulee. Wildlight was conceptualized with input from Nassau County in 2007. Ground broke 2016 on Rayonier’s new headquarters and Wildlight Elementary School there.
A retail/commercial facility along Florida 200 near a new Wawa is the latest development in the works for the area in and around the master-planned Nassau County community. BY J. BROOKS TERRY STAFF WRITER
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evelopment in and around the Wildlight masterplanned community in Nassau County shows no signs of slowing. What had been miles of trees now serves as the site of thousands of homes and counting, grocery and commercial spaces, a health care hub, expanded dining options and most recently the county’s first Wawa. A new retail-commercial facility also might be coming. O n Aug. 27, the Nassau County Development Review Committee heard plans for a project called Yulee Commercial, a proposed mixed-use center in its early stage. It is planned on about 14 acres west of Wawa off Florida
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“To be able to plan on a regional scale for something this large allows you, especially with a single landowner, the opportunity to go in and plan for things in the future.” WES HINTON, VICE PRESIDENT OF WILDLIGHT AT RAYONIER, ITS MASTER DEVELOPER
CITY GOVERNMENT
Laura Street Trio lawsuit dismissed The dropped foreclosure lawsuit opens the door to a possible new agreement to resurrect the historic Downtown buildings. PAGE 8
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Career switch leads to Graze Craze franchise
THE BASCH REPORT
The story behind EverBank’s deal to acquire Sterling Sterling Bancorp Inc.’s merger deal comes after it pleaded guilty in 2023 to securities fraud related to a program where it “originated residential mortgages that were rife with fraud to pad its bottom line.” PAGE 18
RESTAURANTS
Nomu planned for Gate Parkway Cousins Edward Lau and Vincent Liu plan to open the Japanese restaurant, in The Palms at Gate Parkway in December. PAGE 4
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