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REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION
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Vendors showcase products for RNC Daily Record At an event for the host committee to choose preferred businesses, owners say they’re seeking opportunity, want to make up for COVID-19 losses.
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BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
About 77 business owners gathered at the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center on July 9 to showcase their products in hopes of being selected as vendors for the Republican National Convention. The RNC is planned for Aug. 24-27 Downtown at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena. Vendors at the showcase said they did not know what the planned marketplace would look like, where it would be, or how many businesses would participate, but welcomed the opportunity for a boost in revenue. “I look at it as tourism coming to the city,” said Lee Livingston, owner of The 3 G’s Grill & Soul Food Catering in Jacksonville. “If they need our services, we want to be available to them. I just look at it as a great opportunity for our company.” The RNC Host Committee invited some businesses that applied to be vendors at the convention to the showcase. The first 75 or so businesses that responded to the invitation could attend the showcase. Convention planners invited those that fit the needs they said they would have. The showcase featured caterers, bakeries, florists, event planners and breweries, among others. Members of the host committee and delegations walked
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Amy Hales, the owner of Rummies & Yummies, sells rum cakes online. After seeing revenue decline because of COVID-19, she hopes to use the convention as an opportunity to make up for some of the losses.
About 77 businesses attended the vendor showcase at the Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center on July 9.
Lee Livingston, owner of The 3 G’s Grill & Soul Food Catering in Jacksonville, offers food samples.
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Terracon Consultants consolidating its offices
Company is taking space in the former State Farm Operations Center in Baymeadows. An environmental engineering firm is moving toward reusing part of the closed State Farm Jacksonville Operations Center in Baymeadows. The city is reviewing a permit application for Terracon Consultants Inc. to use 35,112 square feet at 8001 Baymeadows Way. Holtsinger Construction Inc. is shown as the contractor for the estimated $909,362 buildout. David Haynes AIA Architect is the architect. Corporate spokesperson Brenda Kramer said July 8 that Terracon likely will move in the fourth quarter and consolidate two Jacksonville office locations. The move will result in slightly more space, she said. The company has 85 employees in the Jacksonville area. She said Terracon expects to have one of the largest materials testing labs in the area at 7,100 square feet. It will include new combined lab space for Terracon and Environmental Services Inc., which Terracon acquired in 2019. Insurer State Farm had 1,160 SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
Gunster law firm moving to Wells Fargo Center After 12 years at Enterprise Center at 225 Water St., the Jacksonville office of the Gunster, Yoakley & Stewart law firm is moving to Wells Fargo Center. Dav-Lin Interior Contractors Inc. will build-out 38,562 square feet of space on the 22nd and 23rd floors at 1 Independent Drive at a job cost of nearly $2.7 million, according to permits issued July 4 and July 6 by the city. “We are committed to Jacksonville, obviously,” said Bill Adams, managing partner in Jacksonville. The new space is designed for up to 35 attorneys and staff. The firm plans to move by the end of the year, he said.
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