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Plan brings apartments, offices to Springfield
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Group seeking $3 million in taxpayer-backed financing to transform the former Jacksonville Jewish Center.
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An artist’s rendering of the Southern Grounds & Co. restaurant planned for Concourse A of Jacksonville International Airport.
Southern Grounds plans to open in the fall, while BurgerFi will open with the completion of Concourse B. BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
Southern Grounds & Co. and BurgerFi are heading to Jacksonville International Airport. Southern Grounds, which operates two Jacksonville locations and has a third planned in Avondale, will open in Concourse A in the fall adjacent to Gate A4.
It will serve coffee, tea, breakfast, lunch, dinner and pastries. It also will offer a selection of graband-go items. Menu items at Southern Grounds include sandwiches, wraps, burgers, tacos and smaller bites. The store will be Southern Grounds’ first airport location. “Coffee remains one of the most popular products amongst our passengers in the airport,” said Jacksonville Aviation Authority CEO Mark VanLoh. “With Southern Grounds presence in the terminal, travelers will have a fresh SEE AIRPORT, PAGE 2
The airport Southern Grounds & Co. will serve coffee, tea, breakfast, lunch, dinner and pastries. It also will offer grab-and-go items.
Legislation that would issue city incentives to redevelop the former Jacksonville Jewish Center in Springfield is headed to City Council. Developer Springfield Lofts LLC wants to secure $3 million in taxpayer-backed financing to convert the space into a $14.8 million mixed-use residential and commercial office project. The Mayor’s Budget Review C o m m i t te e u n a n i m o u s ly approved a request from the City Office of Economic Development to file the bill during its Jan. 27 meeting. The project includes 78 market-rate apartments and 8,000 square feet of commercial office space, according to a Jan. 23 memorandum from the economic development office. Celebration-based real estate firm GNP Development Partners LLC purchased the 2.12 acres in January 2016 through Fore Independent #15 Skyscraper Holding LLC and Springfield Lofts LLC. The center at 205 W. Third St. was designated as a historic contributing structure in the Springfield Historic District north of Downtown. The center and two parcels at 235 W. Third St. and 1341 Pearl St. are north of Henry J. Klutho Park in Springfield. In a memo to committee Chair Brian Hughes, city economic development officials have proposed a $1 million project grant, $1 million loan and a maximum SEE SPRINGFIELD, PAGE 2
Former Jags QB Bortles sells Jacksonville Beach home Former Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles sold his Jacksonville Beach oceanfront home to retail developer Toney Sleiman and his son, Anthony Hunter Sleiman, for $1.7 million. The Sleimans bought the house at 1805 Ocean Drive in Jacksonville Beach on Jan. 16. Bortles paid $1.5 million for the home in 2015. Built in 1995, the three-bedroom, three-bath 2,503-square-foot home features a gourmet kitchen, a wine cellar, covered porch and balcony, dune walkover to the beach and a two-car garage. It also is furnished.
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