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THE MATHIS REPORT
Lamping: Partnership is key to Shipyards
Daily Record JACKSONVILLE
VyStar applies to build $21M Downtown parking garage
Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan’s plans for the Downtown riverfront is taking steps toward approval of $114 million in city incentives.
Daily Record Daily Record NEW GARAGE JACKSONVILLE VyStar Credit Union plans to build an 807-space parking garage at 28 W. Forsyth St. Downtown with ground-floor retail.
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Plans show the seven-level structure at 28 W. Forysth St.
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The city is reviewing a permit application for VyStar Credit Union to build a proposed parking garage at 28 W. Forsyth St. Downtown at a cost of $21 million. The seven-level, 807-space structure is planned on 1.04 acres behind Regions Bank. It includes shell tenant spaces. Danis Builders LLC is shown as the contractor. Dasher Hurst Architects is the architect. Atlantic Engineering Services is the structural engineer and Almond Engineering is the civil engineer. A credit union spokeswoman said previously that 250 parking spaces will be leased to the city. VyStar President and CEO Brian Wolfburg said in March the Downtown-based credit union would break ground in the next six to 12 weeks on the garage. VyStar increased the ground-floor retail space in the garage design to 19,516 square feet after it took over the project in September 2019 from Laura Street Trio developer SouthEast Development Group LLC. Wolfburg said in March that five to six tenants are interested in the garage retail space fronting Laura and Main streets. Coffee vendors, breweries and a dog day care have contacted VyStar but no contracts have been signed, he said. “We’ve got a year-plus on that buildout. So once we get the shovel in the ground, I think we’ll turn our internal facilities team to that,” Wolfburg said.
Jacksonville Jaguars President Mark Lamping praised the Downtown Investment Authority on June 28 while team owner Shad Khan’s $301 million Shipyards development takes steps forward. The proposed project, which includes $114 million in city incentives, would bring a Four Seasons hotel, office building and renovated public marina to the riverfront. During a presentation to the Meninak Club of Jacksonville, Lamping emphasized Khan’s partnership with the city. “The project does not go forward without a partnership and the public benefits that accrue from that partnership don’t happen if the project doesn’t happen,” he said. Lamping was responding to Meninak and DIA board member Ron Moody who said the incentives would bring the project to a “feasible level.” Several City Council members criticized the Jaguars, former development partner The Cordish Companies and Mayor Lenny Curry’s administration in January for not putting Khan’s previous development proposal — the $450 million Lot J entertainment complex — through the DIA negotiation process. The Shipyards deal is headed to the full DIA board July 7 after a committee advanced the agreement June 25 in a 5-0 vote. Khan’s development company,
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Crowley gift establishes UNF center The University of North Florida and Crowley Maritime Corp. announced the university received a $2.5 million endowment gift June 25 from Crowley to establish and sustain the Crowley Center for Transportation and Logistics within UNF’s Coggin College of Business. “This donation represents a strategic investment in our industry’s future” said Tom Crowley (right), the company’s chairman and CEO. The center will be at “the forefront of cuttingedge education and research and help prepare our students with skills for the workforce,” said UNF President David Szymanski (left).
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