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DIA to consider new LaVilla town house partnership
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The Omni Jacksonville Hotel was sold Feb. 25 and will transition from the system.
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Prism Hotels & Resorts to manage Omni Jacksonville Dallas-based Prism has 14 job openings, including in Jacksonville, listed on its website.
BY MAX MARBUT ASSOCIATE EDITOR
income projects. It’s not their expertise or their niche,” Boyer said. “But they really wanted to do it and are engaged Downtown.” Ryan Hoover is president of Vestcor subsidiary TVC Development Inc. and worked on the company’s town house pitch. He said March 5 that Vestcor’s decision to return the land to the city and end the project was market-driven because of the pandemic and the company did not want to slow the city’s goal to redevelop the property. “We were ready to go. Then COVID
Prism Hotels & Resorts, based in Dallas, is the new manager of the Omni Jacksonville Hotel and other Omni properties that were sold Feb. 25. Job listings on Prism’s website include: n General manager, food and beverage manager, director of housekeeping and assistant front office manager at the Omni in Jacksonville. n General manager, director of sales and marketing, director of revenue optimization and director of engineering at the Omni Westside in Houston. n Director of housekeeping, director of sales and marketing and accounting coordinator at the Omni Southpark in Austin, Texas. n General manager, director of sales and marketing and director of revenue optimization at the Omni Park West in Dallas. “We currently manage more than 25 premier hotels for entrepreneurs and institutional and private owners, including a range of high-end urban, suburban and
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Johnson Commons plans to keep the historically influenced design it proposed in 2019 for the town house project in LaVilla.
Vestcor dropped its project; JWB Capital and Corner Lot are interested in the site. BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
The Vestcor Companies Inc. has abandoned plans to build town houses in LaVilla, but the project could gain a familiar new developer. Documents released March 5 by the Downtown Investment Authority state Vestcor will not proceed with the 88 for-sale town houses it planned for the
Downtown community, but a partnership of JWB Real Estate Capital and Corner Lot Development is interested in the site. The city narrowly selected Vestcor for the project over JWB and Corner Lot in 2019. DIA CEO Lori Boyer said March 5 that Vestcor informed her in November the company was no longer interested in the development after several months of delays. The company returned the 3.45acre parcel adjacent to Lift Ev’ry Voice and Sing Park to the city. “Vestcor’s been very upfront about it. They do mostly for-rent products and most of it is mixed-income or low-
Stellar built the engineering plant of the year Jacksonville-based Stellar designed and built the $200 million, 315,000-square-foot Cuisine Solutions sous vide processing facility in San Antonio that Food Engineering magazine named the 2021 Sustainable Food Plant of the Year. The facility can continuously cook and chill up to 500,000 pounds of beef and other products per day via the French slow-cooking method.
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