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JU converting Virginia College space for health care training
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The former Independent Life and Accident Insurance Co. home office building at 233 W. Duval St. Downtown.
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The former Virginia College building at 5940 Beach Blvd. will become the Jacksonville University Healthcare Simulation Center.
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Healthcare Simulation Center will use high-tech tools to train professionals. Jacksonville University is converting part of the former Virginia College space at Beach and University boulevards into a health care training center. Construction is underway. “This is a service-oriented operation with the intent to help our health-care partners in the area,” said Dr. Christine Sapienza, interim provost and senior vice president of academic affairs. “This is just the beginning.” In 2014, Sapienza led the formation of the Brooks Rehabilitation College of Healthcare Sciences and served as the dean.
She expects the Jacksonville University Healthcare Simulation Center will open Oct. 21 with a grand opening in January. The goal of the center is “to help elevate the quality of patient care in Northeast Florida by offering interactive, skills-based training to healthcare professionals using high-fidelity simulation tools in a safe, controlled environment,” JU said in a statement. It will work with its philanthropic supporters and business partners, such as Baptist Health, Florida Blue, CAE and the Cascone Family Foundation. The center will offer customized curriculum and continuing education courses for health care professionals, particularly nurses. It also “will focus on inter-professional training to improve communication and teamwork across disciplines as a simulated patient progresses through care.” A simulation center at the university’s Arlington campus at 2800 University Blvd. N. trains JU students. The new community center will serve professionals from hospitals and other health care organizations. It will use high-tech simulator manikins, a prevalent practice in health-care
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Apartments planned for Independent Life building High-end sushi and seafood restaurant, grocery also are part of redevelopment project.
BY SCOTT SAILER STAFF WRITER
Virginia College closed in December after its parent, Birmingham, Alabama-based Education Corporation of America, went out of business.
Another Downtown office building is slated for redevelopment. St. Augustine-based Augustine Development Group bought the former Independent Life and Accident Insurance Co. home office building at 233 W. Duval St. Downtown for $3.7 million. Bryan Greiner, president of Augustine Development Group, said Tuesday his group bought the 64-year-old building last week and plans to invest about $28 million in the 180,000-square-foot, 19-story structure. The group plans to develop 140 market-rate apartments on the second through 18th floors, a grocery store on the 21,000-squarefoot ground floor and basement, and a rooftop terrace with a pool, lounge and a high-end sushi and SEE APARTMENTS, PAGE 2
City Ridge Apartments sold A Fort Lauderdale real estate company bought an Arlington apartment complex last week for $24.7 million. City Ridge Realty LLC, a subsidiary of New Jersey-based Jacksonville Partners LLC, sold the 288-unit City Ridge Apartments to South Florida-based Nathan Holdings, under the name Oaks at Red Bay LLC. Nathan Holdings is a real estate investment company focusing on multifamily properties across the U.S. Most of its properties are in South Florida. The community is at 7528 Arlington Expressway, east of Arlington Road.
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