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Incentives sought for $58 million LNG facility Eagle LNG Partners says the facility along Zoo Parkway in North Jacksonville would generate 12 jobs.
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BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
The final phase is 33,000 square feet. It will employ an additional 80 people with a harvest by August. Rhonda Kratz, Acreage Holdings Florida general manager, said the company has seven dispensaries in the works throughout Florida. One is planned in Northeast Florida, but Kratz declined to state where. It won’t be in Baker County. Baker County was an ideal location for Acreage’s first Florida facility because of its warm climate and the way officials wel-
Eagle LNG Partners LLC is asking the city for $23 million in incentives to begin construction on a long-planned liquid natural gas export facility in North Jacksonville. The Houston-based company plans to build a $58 million complex on 200 acres along Zoo Parkway, according to a project summary sent Nov. 4 to City Chief of Staff Brian Hughes from Office of Economic Development Executive Director Kirk Wendland. The site is near JaxPort facilities along the St. Johns River. According to the summary, Eagle LNG also will install about $484 million in manufacturing equipment at the facility. Gas shipped from the site will be transported to Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands for power generation, according to Eagle LNG spokesperson and Dalton Agency President Michael Munz. The facility also will fuel Eagle LNG marine customers globally and be used in U.S. domestic energy consumption. The economic development office wants to offer Eagle LNG up to $23 million in a Recaptured Enhanced Value grant, which would refund 50% of the increase in the site’s property taxes the first 10 years the facility is in operation. In exchange, Eagle LNG would create 12 jobs at the facility by Dec. 31, 2023, with an average wage of $85,000. On Tuesday, the Mayor’s Bud-
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Darryl Register, executive director of the Baker County Chamber of Commerce, and Acreage Holdings General Manager of Florida Rhonda Kratz take part in a groundbreaking ceremony for the Sanderson cannabis production facility.
New York-based Acreage Holdings is developing a 15.4-acre cannabis production facility in Sanderson to serve its Florida dispensaries.
BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
New York-based Acreage Holdings, a medical marijuana cultivator, processor and dispensary, chose Baker County for its first production facility in Florida. Acreage broke ground on the facility Oct. 29. Acreage will repurpose the former Hanson Roof Tile manufacturing facility for cannabis cultivation. The facility is on 15.4 acres at 13907 Arnold Rhoden Road in Sanderson. The cannabis will be grown indoors in the automated, cli-
mate-controlled facility to support Acreage’s dispensaries throughout the state. Acreage will employ 80 to 100 people. Job openings include grow specialists, extraction personnel, maintenance and security. The first phase of the project is a temporary pod-based system under a 1,500-square-foot canopy. It will employ 15 people with the first harvest expected by March. The second phase is a 7,000-square-foot canopy-covered pod-based system. It will employ another 15 people with an April harvest.
Southern Tide rising at Town Center St. Johns Town Center landlord Simon announced Thursday that Southern Tide will open a 2,000-square-foot store in mid-November along River City Drive between Dillard’s and Nordstrom. Simon described Southern Tide as a coastal lifestyle retailer selling apparel and accessories for men, women and children. Southern Tide is best known for its Skipjack Stretch Polo. Southern Tide, based in Greenville, South Carolina, was founded in 2006. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Oxford Industries.
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