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JEA wants to learn ‘best use’ for property
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Cultural facility, workforce housing selected for Armory
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Utility says the request for proposals is not directly related to its privatization efforts.
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BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
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Photos by Monty Zickuhr
The back of the three-story, 80,826-square-feet Gothic Revival-style armory at 815 N. Market St. on the edge of Downtown.
Plan by Fort Lauderdalebased REVA Development Corp. will need City Council, mayoral approval. BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
A city committee approved Fort Lauderdale-based REVA Development Corp.’s bid to purchase the Armory Building. The Competitive Sealed Proposal Evaluation Committee voted 3-0 Thursday to approve the bid, which was chosen by the city Office of Economic Development and sent to the committee. The committee will negotiate a sale, lease or both with REVA Development, after which the deal will go to City Coun-
cil for a vote and then to Mayor Lenny Curry for final approval. REVA Development proposes 100 units of workforce housing with 4,000 square feet Patterson of community space and a cultural arts facility at the former Florida National Guard armory at 815 N. Market St. “MADE at the ARMORY” would be an adaptive reuse of the Armory Building, said Don Patterson, president of REVA Development. It would include working art studios, a performance stage and facility, art galleries and event space. It would create “a hub/destination that brings arts, entertainment, entrepreneurship and educaSEE ARMORY, PAGE 2
The city-owned former Florida National Guard armory was designated a local landmark in 2001.
In an effort to shed surplus properties, JEA officials want to hire an outside professional real estate firm to determine the “best use” of the public utility’s property holdings. JEA released a request for proposals for professional real estate, land planning and civil engineering firms to implement best use plans for all JEA-owned property in Duval, Clay, Nassau and St. Johns counties. Online documents published by JEA’s procurement department state any firm awarded a contract could also be responsible for an evaluation and assessment of JEA properties, creation of development alternatives and marketing support information. JEA media relations manager Gina Kyle said Thursday the move is not related directly to the public utility’s recent push to explore privatization. Kyle said the need for outside real estate services is an expansion of a program JEA outlined in March to liquidate “non-core” assets. At the utility’s March 26 board meeting, JEA Vice President and Chief of Energy and Water Planning Steve McInall identified four properties JEA could sell with an estimated combined market value of $40 million to $65 million. n 9201 Atlantic Blvd. The former Coggin Pontiac auto dealership; 5.088 acres; estimated sales price $5 million to $7.8 million. The July, Grunthal & Schueth Properties Inc. bid $3.21 million SEE JEA, PAGE 2
Driver named 2021 JAX Chamber chair The JAX Chamber board Thursday named lawyer G. Ray Driver Jr. as its 2021 chair. Driver is a founding partner of the Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow firm. He is a member of JAX Chamber’s board of directors and chair of JAXUSA Partnership, the group’s economic development arm. “Ray has served in nearly every volunteer role we have – he knows the chamber inside and out,” JAX Chamber President and CEO Daniel Davis said in a news release. “He’s well-prepared to serve as our chair and will be an outstanding leader for our 3,000 members.”
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