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2,000-acre commerce center near JIA planned
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The JAA wants to rezone the property to include hotel, commercial, flex industrial and specialty entertainment uses.
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BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
in this office a long time.” He’s been there 26 years. The sign was off the Southbank building. Liquidators were down to the “Last 9 days!” of selling the remaining HQ furniture and fixtures. A handful of executives and IT specialists prepared to move to a Baymeadows satellite office as they wrapped up busi-
The Jacksonville Aviation Authority is seeking City Council approval to rezone more than 2,000 acres near Jacksonville International Airport for a twophase, mixed-use development called JAX Commerce Center. The property is at northwest Interstate 95 and I-295. One area of the development, called JAX Commerce Center North on the master plan, is at Pecan Park Road and International Airport Boulevard. The other area, JAX Commerce Center South, is south of it, along International Airport Boulevard north of I-295. JAA wants to rezone the 2,014 acres for a planned unit development to include commercial, flex industrial, hotel and specialty entertainment. The goal would be to eventually lease the land to developers, who could only build in accordance with the zoning. Those developments would need to be compatible with the nearby airport, meaning they wouldn’t draw heavy traffic to the area. “The JAA is not going to be developing any nonaeronautical properties on our property,” said JAA Director of External Affairs Michael Stewart. “This is an effort to make it a little easier in the process when development will start to take place.” According to the PUD writ-
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CEO D. Hunt Hawkins shares insight into the fall of the Jacksonville-based retailer.
Photo by Karen Brune Mathis
Stein Mart CEO D. Hunt Hawkins shows what’s left in the office lobby at the bankrupt company’s headquarters on the Downtown Southbank at 1200 Riverplace Blvd. “That was a difficult day, getting my personal belongings out of here,” he said. His office furniture was sold in the liquidation.
BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
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. Hunt Hawkins spent his last full day in his 10th-floor office at the former Stein Mart Inc. building dressed casually and waiting for his office furniture to be moved out. It was Nov. 13, three months and a day after Stein Mart’s Chapter 11 filing in U.S.
Bankruptcy Court, and time to leave the Downtown Southbank headquarters at 1200 Riverplace Blvd. Hawkins, as CEO of the Jacksonvillebased off-price fashion and home-goods retailer, already had removed his personal belongings. A backpack and coffee cup remained, along with other miscellany. “Mine’s all gone,” Hawkins said. “That was a difficult day, getting my personal belongings out of here, because I’ve been
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