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THE MATHIS REPORT
JEA gets more time to opt out of new HQ
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Publix might be anchor for new shopping center near Wildlight
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The city-owned utility, which is considering a sale or privatization, gets until Oct. 23 to decide whether to proceed with Downtown building.
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anchored by a grocery store. Parking calculations identify the supermarket as Publix. Sleiman Enterprises Chief Operating Officer Michael McNaughton said Monday his company could not comment. “We are not in a position to discuss any information about the Wildlight project at this time,” he said by email. Dwaine Stevens, regional media and community relations manager for Pub-
Ryan Companies US. Inc. extended JEA’s deadline to opt out of a lease agreement for the utility’s planned $72.2 million Downtown headquarters. A Sept. 9 interoffice memorandum written by JEA Managing Director and CEO Aaron Zahn says the Minneapolis-based developer will give JEA until Oct. 23 to decide whether to cancel plans for the headquarters as the public utility’s board considers a possible sale or path to privatization. The memo says the additional time will allow JEA’s financial consultants to review initial responses to an invitation to private companies and organizations to negotiate a sale. JEA issued the invitation Aug. 2. JEA staff cited declining sales and regulatory hurdles to diversifying its business offerings as reasons to explore privatization. The utility could scrap its Downtown plans in favor of a smaller office space in South Jacksonville should a “recapitalization” not happen. The JEA board approved the lease for the 325 W. Adams St. building on June 25, which held the utility to a Sept. 30 deadline to cancel the agreement. City Council, which also approved the $2.6 million sale of the West Adams Street property to Ryan that same day, included a
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CROSSINGS AT WILDLIGHT Sleiman Enterprises proposes the Crossings at Wildlight at southwest Florida A1A and William Burgess Boulevard in Nassau County. Plans show the 17.43-acre center anchored by a 48,387-square-foot grocery store.
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Crossings at Wildlight shopping center to be anchored by a grocery store.
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
It looks like Publix Super Markets Inc. might add a third grocery store in Nassau County. Developer Sleiman Enterprises filed plans with the St. Johns River Water Management District for the Crossings at Wildlight shopping center to be
Hines sells McKesson HQ for $42.3M The Hines real estate development company sold the McKesson Corp. headquarters it built in Southside Quarter for almost $42.3 million. Hines sold the four-story, 122,880-square-foot building on 7.73 acres at 6651 Gate Parkway to Real Capital Solutions of Colorado. Bank of America financed the Real Capital Solutions mortgage at almost $32 million. Hines sold the property through SSQ Office 1 Ltd. Real Capital Solutions bought it through RCS – Southside Quarter LLC.
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