WEDNESDAY March 11, 2020
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Springfield ‘at a tipping point’ Daily Record JACKSONVILLE
A Tampa developer proposes apartments and commercial space at former Jacksonville Jewish Center.
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BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
City Council will consider $3 million in taxpayer-backed incentives for a Tampa-based developer’s plan to revitalize the former Jacksonville Jewish Center in Springfield. Springfield Lofts LLC proposes a $14 million project with 78 market-rate apartment units and 8,000 square feet of commercial office space for the 2.12acre site at 1341 Pearl St., 235 W. Third St. and 205 W. Third St. “We have to prove that (Springfield Lofts) is a success, prove the demand and kind of show everybody — despite some perception of Springfield — it’s at a tipping point. I think this will help push it over the top,” said Joshua Pardue, co-principal of Tampa-based GNP Development Partners LLC with Mark Gerenger. Springfield Lofts is a subsidiary of GNP Development Partners LLC. It purchased the property in January 2016 through Fore Independent #15 Skyscraper Holding LLC and Springfield Lofts. Council President Scott Wilson filed Ordinance 2020-0187 on March 4 at the request of Mayor Lenny Curry. The development agreement drafted by the city Office of Economic Development attached to the bill proposes a $1 million, 20-year loan at 3% interest to the developer. The agreement also offers a $1 million Recaptured Enhanced Value Grant, which will refund 75% of the increase of the prop-
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The Municipal Code Compliance Division says changed ownership triggered new notices. An ownership change led to re-issued condemnation signs on the closed Bethelite property along the Arlington Expressway warning that it faces demolition. “This structure is unsafe and unfit for human habitation and subject to demolition,” says an orange “condemned” sign dated March 3 on the fence at 5865 Arlington Expressway. The city Municipal Code Compliance Division ordered the condemnation of the property, which was built in 1964. The city provided a comment from the division: “New ownership was discovered and the unsafe cases were superseded. The new placards were posted at the property, new notices were sent out to the new owners,” it said. “We will perform a subsequent inspection in April once due process has been provided to the property owner to respond and begin to take action on the property.” Property records show 770 Inn and Suites LLC of Miami transferred ownership to Happy New Good Year 770 LLC on Oct. 25.
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City posts condemnation signs at former Bethelite site
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Bono’s near Town Center damaged by fire Bono’s Pit Bar-B-Q likely will rebuild after a fire late March 9 off Gate Parkway. After the 9p.m. closing, a dishwasher noticed smoke in the back of the building and called 911. “The smoke and water damage is pretty devastating, so I think – and we don’t know for certain – that we’re probably just going to have to tear the building down,” said Bono’s President Josh Martino. “We can always rebuild and the happiest thing to come out of it was that nobody was hurt.”
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