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Jacksonville’s first Lucky Goat Coffee Co. cafe plans to open in July in the Kernan Square shopping center across from Tamaya Market.
BY SCOTT SAILER STAFF WRITER
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BY SCOTT SAILER STAFF WRITER
Although delayed by the COVID-19 outbreak, Jose Parada plans to open Jacksonville’s first Lucky Goat Coffee Co. cafe franchise in July. It’s the first franchise for Lucky Goat Coffee Co., which has five locations in Tallahassee along with a cafe on wheels, the “Cold Brew Bus.” The cafe is at 12620 Beach Blvd. in the Kernan Square shopping center near Tamaya Market. Parada planned an April opening, but it stalled as the pandemic slowed the building permit process and build-out. While the franchise is new, the relationship between Parada and Lucky Goat Coffee Co. owner Ben Pautsch goes back 15 years. Parada started working for Pautsch in 2005 and in 2010 he started the Lucky Goat coffee-roasting company, offering wholesale coffee beans to coffee shops and stores. It has more than 350 accounts across Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. The business expanded with its own cafes and retail coffee offerings. In 2013, the company split, with Pautsch owning Lucky Goat Coffee Co. and Parada owning First
The plans in review are similar to Amazon.com’s projects in Jacksonville.
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Jose Parada intends to open the first franchise of the Tallahassee-based Lucky Goat Coffee Co.
KEEPING CLOSE – FROM A DISTANCE On May 4, the state began a phased reopening of businesses shut down to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. The Daily Record is reporting on small businesses as they confront the challenges of social distancing and financial hardships brought on by the pandemic and its aftermath.
St. Johns County is reviewing an application for a last-mile distribution facility called DJX6, which matches the code references used by Amazon.com for its centers. Seattle-based Amazon calls its Jacksonville last-mile delivery centers by similar names. The Cabot Commerce Circle facility in North Jacksonville is DJX1 and the Blanding Boulevard site under development in West Jacksonville is DJX2. The St. Johns County project, which doesn’t identify Amazon, is a 121,279-square-foot lastmile fulfillment delivery center at 3960 Inman Road, northeast of Interstate 95 and Florida 16 near St. Augustine Outlets. Jacksonville-based land-use attorney Patrick Krechowski, representing Ryan Cos. US Inc., applied to St. Johns County Growth Management for a major modification to the undeveloped Fountains planned unit development through Ordinance 2015-12. Ryan is a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based national builder, developer, designer and real estate manager. It is working with JEA to build the utility’s new Downtown Jacksonville headquarters. Krechowski, a partner with Balch & Bingham, said June 17 he cannot comment. The site plan shows the building along the north property line with vehicular parking and staging along Inman Road and south of the building. Parking is planned for 186 auto spaces and 620 van spaces.
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The sign design for Lucky Goat Coffee Co.
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CSX cuts 86 jobs in management realignment CSX Corp. said June 17 it cut 86 jobs as part of a management realignment. The layoffs last week, which affected employees mainly in Jacksonville, were part of a program to increase productivity and efficiency. CSX has been eliminating jobs for the past three years. CEO Jim Foote said the cutbacks have continued this year with about a 7% reduction in the first quarter. Foote said the “weak industrial economy,” which reduced freight volume, prompted the cuts before the COVID-19 pandemic. “But when all of a sudden the bottom dropped out, you saw boom, we took the headcount again down,” he said.
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