WEDNESDAY August 14, 2019
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REDEVELOPMENT
JACKSONVILLE Oceanfront hotel, mixed-use space planned for Jacksonville Beach
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An artist’s rending of 221 N. First St. in Jacksonville Beach. The property was once the Perkins Hotel and Bathhouse and Bukkets Grill & Bar restaurant.
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SoFi looking for workers in Jacksonville
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221 Surfside Holdings LLC plans to redevelop the 221 N. First St. property north of the Seawalk Pavilion. BY MONTY ZICKUHR MANAGING EDITOR
221 Surfside Holdings LLC plans to redevelop a 25,000-square-foot oceanfront property at 221 N. First St. in Jacksonville Beach into a boutique hotel, restaurant, retail and office space. The project is planned for completion in 2020, the company announced Monday. Records show that 221 Surfside Holdings LLC purchased the property in December for $3.4 million from MKD Realty Capital LLC. The 221 Surfside Holdings group said it is held by the owners of Sky Enterprises LLC, a Neptune Beach-based investment company. MKD Realty Capital issued an almost $2.65 million mortgage to 221 Surfside Holdings. “This property has so much history and in an effort to revitalize Jacksonville Beach, we are committed to its redevelopment,” said Sky Enterprises CEO Jean Bakkes in a news release. “We share in the privilege and responsibility to invest in the area we live.” SEE HOTEL, PAGE 2
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Above: A rendering of the project from the ocean side of the property. Below, the property from along First Street.
San Francisco-based provider of personal finance products matches the description of Project Quail. SoFi, a San Francisco-based provider of personal finance products, is advertising for jobs for what appears to be a Jacksonville operations center. At SoFi.com, the company is posting for job titles that include senior director of DevOps and its team that “works on challenging product and infrastructurefocused problems;” technical support analyst; consumer loan reviewer; executive assistant; financial crimes investigator; associate manager of financial crimes, fraud detection and prevention; and trainer. The Trainer I listing said trainers “facilitate the new hire and skills-based training to the front-line call center agents in all the product lines SoFi offers,” it said. The Executive Assistant listing said it would support executives “in our Jacksonville, FL site.” SoFi did not immediately return emails for comment Tuesday morning and afternoon. The company matches the description of Project Quail, an economic development project
Renderings provided by Level Architecture + Interiors
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Downtown VyStar branch on the move VyStar Credit Union will move its Downtown branch from the first floor of the Ed Ball Building, at 214 N. Hogan St., to the former SunTrust Bank branch on the first floor of VyStar Tower by early 2020. Jacksonvillebased VyStar intends to make the tower, at 76 S. Laura St., its headquarters. VyStar has moved 250 employees Downtown since buying the SunTrust Tower last year and another 250 will relocate by the end of 2019, said VyStar Vice President of Community Engagement and Sponsorship Amanda Crawford.
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