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Southeastern Grocers CEO Anthony Hucker and other dignitaries cut the ribbon at Winn-Dixie.

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Winn-Dixie opens at Gateway Town Center

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Grocery fills the space that was once a Publix.

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Brandon Starks is executive director of The Brumos Collection at 5159 San Pablo Road S. The automotive museum is open to the public, but requires reservations in advance.

Dan Davis, the former chairman of Winn-Dixie, transforms his automotive collection into a museum.

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an Davis is opening his nationally recognized car collection – The Brumos Collection – to the public. The Brumos Collection museum opened Jan. 20 at 5159 San Pablo Road S., near the entrance to the private Pablo Creek Reserve community in south Jacksonville. The 35,000-square-foot, two-story building could have been an austere warehouse if it was meant as a place just to park cars. Rather, Davis had other uses in mind, said

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Brandon Starks, executive director of The Brumos Collection. “I saw an opportunity to create a viable business around the collection and it then evolved into what we have today,” Davis said in an interview by email. Davis, 74, is the former chairman of the Jacksonville-based Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. grocery chain, which was founded by his father, J.E. Davis, uncles and grandfather. Dan Davis retired as chairman and from the Winn-Dixie board in 2004 after working for the SEE MUSEUM, PAGE 14

The Gateway Town Center in Brentwood is home to an operating grocery store again, as of 8 a.m. Feb. 12. People lined up around the building, nearly to Norwood Avenue, for a chance to be one of the first 500 customers and receive a gift card for up to $500. Some lined up as early as 5 a.m. Publix Super Markets Inc. announced in October it wouldn’t renew its lease in the shopping center after being there for 20 years. In November, Winn-Dixie announced it would lease the 28,120-square-foot space at 5210 Norwood Ave. and received $850,000 in city financial incentives to offset costs associated with redeveloping the property. It is Winn-Dixie’s first store opening in seven years, said Southeastern Grocers President and CEO Anthony Hucker at the store’s ribbon-cutting ceremony. Winn-Dixie hired 120 workers to staff the store, which is open 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily.

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