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Adventure Landing looking for new home
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The entertainment park is scheduled to close in Jacksonville Beach by Oct. 31 and shut its Westside park June 27.
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paid for the property, which was sold by TPG Real Estate of San Francisco. TPG paid $64.5 million for it in January 2020. The company, which will relocate from Short Hills, New Jersey, provides business decisioning data and analytics worldwide. “We are proud to be owners of the Town Center II building, a recently developed property that meets the highest standards of energy efficiency and sustainability today, and is
Adventure Landing’s entertainment park in Jacksonville Beach is scheduled to close by Oct. 31, but the company reiterated in a June 30 news release that it is looking for a new site in Jacksonville. “The Adventure Landing story does not permanently end here, as the owners are in the process of exploring other locations in the Jacksonville area to build another water park,” it said. NRP Lease Holdings LLC, which operated the three Adventure Landing parks in Northeast Florida and 10 other parks in North Carolina, New York, Kansas, Ohio, Texas and Missouri, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in December 2019. The company closed its park on Jacksonville’s Westside on June 27. Under a lease agreement with property owners, it will have to close the Jacksonville Beach park by the end of October. NRP does not own the real estate but leases the properties to operate its parks. Trevato Development Group bought the property at 1944 Beach Blvd. in Jacksonville Beach in February through a company called JB Fair Park MF LLC. Trevato presented plans June 28 to a Jacksonville Beach City Council workshop to redevelop the property into a 427-unit apartment project. “If the City of Jacksonville Beach approves the plan proposed
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TOWN CENTER TWO Dun & Bradstreet’s new headquarters is at 5335 Gate Parkway across Butler Boulevard from St. Johns Town Center. Web.com, the initial anchor tenant, has subleased some space to SoFi, an online personal finance company.
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The New Jersey-based data company will relocate this summer and hire 500 employees.
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Dun & Bradstreet Inc. announced June 30 it has completed the purchase of Town Center Two, its new global headquarters office in Jacksonville. The 218,700-square-foot building is on 14.38 acres at 5335 Gate Parkway across Butler Boulevard from St. Johns Town Center. Dun & Bradstreet said in a news release it chose the building, developed in 2019, with the company’s growth and sustainability plans in mind. Dun & Bradstreet did not say how much it
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY The Jacksonville Daily Record will not be published July 5 because of the Independence Day holiday. We will resume publication July 6. VOLUME 108, NO. 161 • ONE SECTION