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The University of Virginia softball ace will next lead shopping center giant Regency Centers Corp. as it navigates the challenges of the internet era.
BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS & MARK BASCH RECORD & OBSERVER
Bill moves Metro Park toward development
A deal still would need to be worked out with National Park Service.
L Daily Record isa Palmer recalls meeting Albert Ernest, president of Jacksonville-based Barnett Banks Inc., for lunch at his country club in Charlottesville, Virginia. It was at the suggestion of her father, Jon Palmer, a C-suite Barnett executive who had moved to Jacksonville, hired by Ernest. A Philadelphia native, Lisa Palmer had just graduated from the University of Virginia, class of 1989, with a degree in economics and several softball records as the school’s star pitcher. “He was my network connection,” she said of Ernest, a UVA graduate who now lives in Charlottesville. Six years later, after working her first career jobs and earning an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, she called Ernest to network for positions in Jacksonville. He referred her to several companies, including Stein Mart Inc. and CSX Corp., saying her dad had her covered at Barnett, and to Regency Centers Corp. All are Jacksonville-based except for Barnett, which was absorbed into Bank of America in 1998. It came down to CSX and Regency. She chose Regency, because, at the time, it wasn’t big. Having worked at General Electric and Anderson Consulting Strategic Services, Palmer wasn’t looking for another large company, like CSX. “It was more about joining a smaller company, which I felt was a little more entrepreneurial and had more of an opportunity to make an impact more quickly,” Palmer said this week. She did.
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BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
As Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan focuses on the proposed mixed-use development of Lot J next to TIAA Bank Field, the city is taking another step in the broader proposed development of the riverfront Metropolitan Park and the Shipyards next door. City Council President Scott Wilson introduced Ordinance 2019-555 on behalf of Mayor Lenny Curry that refunds $1.72 million in unused grant money to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection intended for improvements along the St. Johns River linked to the park. The bill also would give Curry the authority to terminate the agreement with FDEP. Another Metropolitan Park stakeholder is the federal government. The property is designated federal parkland and any private development has to be approved by the National Park Service. Specifically, a suitable replacement for Metropolitan Park in both location and acreage must be located. Wilson said Tuesday that this legislation does not address the National Park Service requirement. Curry said The Jacksonville Landing is not a possible replacement site for Metropolitan Park in an interview Aug 1. “That is not happening,” Curry said. Artist renderings of Khan’s proposed $450 million Lot J project show buildings in the Metropolitan Park space.
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Regency Centers Corp. President Lisa Palmer, who will become the company’s next CEO in January, shows off her collection of sports memorabilia in her office in the Wells Fargo Center. Palmer was a star pitcher for the University of Virginia softball team and still holds all-time records for the school.
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