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JEA buys property in LaVilla
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Three design firms selected in Landing site park competition
The municipal utility paid almost $2.45M for 2.27 acres envisioned for a potential secondary HQ Downtown.
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OLIN PARTNERSHIP LTD.
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The Philadelphia company is working on the Alexandria, Virginia, riverfront.
Y KAREN BRUNE MATHIS & MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITERS
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PERKINS & WILL INC.
AGENCY LANDSCAPE + PLANNING LLC
The Chicago firm’s work includes historic Emancipation Park in Houston.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm is working on phase one of Bay Park in Sarasota.
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The DIA and city Parks Department want a minimum 4.5-acre facility at the riverfront property.
BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
City procurement officials selected three national firms March 18 to compete for the contract to design a public riverfront park at the former Jacksonville Landing site. The city Professional Services Evaluation Committee voted 3-0 to select the companies that each will be paid $125,000 to complete 50% of the design work for a minimum 4.5-acre park for the site at 2
Independent Drive W., now called Riverfront Plaza. One of the firms will be selected to complete its design. The firms are: ■ Agency Landscape + Planning LLC of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The company’s work includes phase one of the 10-acre Bay Park in Sarasota and the 2015 Downtown Experience plan in Raleigh, North Carolina. SEE PARK, PAGE 2
Municipal utility JEA paid almost $2.45 million March 18 for 2.27 acres in LaVilla targeted for its “hardened” secondary headquarters. JEA bought the vacant property, among 19 parcels, from LaVilla Partners III LLLP. The sale was recorded March 19 with the Duval County Clerk of Courts. JEA said in January it would pause plans to build the facility as it reevaluated its post-pandemic workplace. Despite the uncertainty, JEA leadership said it intended to complete the purchase of the site for the facility. The proposed 40,000-squarefoot facility would house JEA’s emergency operations center and supplement the utility’s eightstory, $64 million to $68 million headquarters under construction at 225 N. Pearl St. Downtown. The board voted 7-0 in November to allow staff to complete sale negotiations with property owner LaVilla Partners III LLLP. According to JEA officials, staff intended to close on the land after it completed its due diligence. JEA CEO Jay Stowe said completing the property purchase will allow utility executives to keep all options on the table until it finishes the workplace analysis. The property is bounded by Ashley, Johnson, Church and Duval streets.
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American Electrical Contracting moving headquarters American Electrical Contracting Inc. purchased a warehouse and office space at 9016 Philips Highway that will become the company’s new corporate headquarters and consolidated facility. The $3.4 million deal closed March 12. It was brokered by Jeffrey Evans at Greene Commercial Real Estate Group. “The new headquarters allows us to continue to grow and provides greater flexibility and space for office staff and its crews,” said David Yencarelli, chief operating officer of American Electrical Contracting, in a news release.
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