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CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: YOUR INSIGHT
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Jenielle Frith’s Downtown vegan restaurant temporarily closed and is still awaiting PPP loan approval, but she intends to offer takeout and delivery starting May 4.
No fanfare, but Sprouts opens 2nd area store
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Grocery chain says there are plans for a third Northeast Florida store, but doesn’t say where.
BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
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About 60 shoppers lined up April 29 for the opening of Sprouts Farmers Market at 12675 Beach Blvd. in Tamaya Market.
Just as her 5-month-old vegan restaurant and bakery, Grenville Kitchen, was picking up momentum, owner Jenielle Frith said stay-athome orders and a lack of customers Downtown forced her to temporarily close her restaurant. “We would make things, like the cakes and cookies and stuff, and we would end up having to toss them because we didn’t have the volume we were used to walking through the door. We didn’t have that at all,” Frith said. Grenville Kitchen is at 311 W. Ashley St. in Downtown. Frith said the restaurant made its first appearance at Veg Fest in early March. The vegan festival that takes place three times a year in the city. She said Grenville Kitchen saw a lot more new customers because of it. When so many employees began working from home because of COVID-19, the restaurant “would go hours without an order.” Frith’s mother, a nurse, also encouraged her to close for safety. Frith has asthma, and her mother worried about what could happen if she contracted the coronavirus. She temporarily closed almost a month ago, but has plans to reopen for takeout and delivery May 4, after finding a way to operate more safely. She laid off her seven employees while the restaurant was closed, but will bring them back for the reopening. SEE FIRTH, PAGE 2
BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
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Grenville Kitchen owner Jenielle Frith said she hopes more people adopt plant-based eating as a way to boost their immune systems and stay healthy during the pandemic.
KEEPING CLOSE – FROM A DISTANCE Since March 13, city event venues, stores, restaurants, malls, entertainment centers, churches and businesses shut down and laid off workers or sent them home to telecommute to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Daily Record will report how local small business owners are dealing with the imposed social isolation.
The opening of Jacksonville’s second Sprouts Farmers Market was not the celebratory event most grocery stores throw on their first day in business. COVID-19 meant social distancing and other measures. A line of about 60 people gathered in front of the store just before 7 a.m. April 29 in Tamaya Market. They were six feet apart from each other, with the line wrapping around the shopping center. There were no free samples or giveaways, like the grocer had for the opening of its The Markets at Town Center location in July. An employee greeted customers at the door, also counting them so that the store did not exceed its 90-shopper capacity. Another counted customers as they left to keep an updated tally of how many people were inside at a time. One employee gave out carts at the entry and another sanitized SEE SPROUTS, PAGE 2
San Marco Promenade sold for $53.66 million Chance Partners LLC and EJF Capital LLC paid $53.66 million for San Marco Promenade apartments at 1905 Promenade Way, west of Philips Highway between Mitchell Avenue and River Oaks Road. Jacksonville-based Chance Partners and Washington, D.C. area-based EJF Capital, through Promenade Jax Owner LLC, bought the 284-unit community April 24. Jeffrey Rosen and Judd Bobilin lead Chance Partners. Rosen also is part of CRP/Chance SMP Owner LLC, the group that sold the property. EJF Capital LLC is a global asset management firm. Construction completion is expected in the third quarter.
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