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Record & Observer BACK ON COURSE is part of the Stillwater community in St. Johns County.
Jay Stowe, the former Tennessee Valley Authority and Huntsville Utilities executive, officially starts work.
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Record & Observer BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
6,000-6,500 yard, 18-hole golf course, a restaurant and other resident amenities including a fitness center, swimming pool, tennis courts and bocce ball and pickleball facilities. The golf course and clubhouse will be open to the public, but the other amenities will be for resident use only. At the turn of the century, golf course communities were plentiful in Northeast Florida. Along Florida 210, west of Interstate 95, there are three – St. Johns Golf & Country Club, Cimarrone Golf Club and The Golf Club at South Hampton –all within a few miles of each other. The last new course built in the area was The Palencia Club, which opened in
JEA CEO Jay Stowe said he didn’t walk into the city-owned utility’s Downtown West Church Street headquarters on his first day with preconceptions. Stowe assumed the top executive role at JEA on Nov. 30, ending a 1 ½-year period that saw an attempt to sell JEA to a private company, CEO Aaron Zahn and his senior leadership team fired, a new board appointed, and City Council and U.S. Department of Justice investigations. Stowe Stowe said the situation makes his internal priority a focus on JEA employees in his first three to six months as CEO. “They’ve been through a lot as a staff,” Stowe said. “In spite of what they’ve gone through, they have kept doing fantastic work focused on the community. That becomes my first priority.” Stowe said repairing damage to JEA’s culture will be a daily task of treating employees and customers with courtesy and respect. “Well, this may sound a little odd. I don’t think we work on trust and I don’t think we work on culture. Those are outcomes of the way we do our business every day,” he said.
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An aerial view of the 18-hole golf course taking shape at the Stillwater community along Florida 210 in St. Johns County west of Cimarrone Golf Club.
BY DAN MACDONALD CONTRIBUTING WRITER
“I don’t need a 7,000yard golf course. I need a course that minimizes forced carries. Overall, I need to make it a fun and interesting golf course.” BOBBY WEED, GOLF COURSE DESIGNER
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lifestyle change is ending a drought of more than 15 years in new golf course construction in Northeast Florida. “Active adult” communities, which are subdivisions targeted at homeowners 55 years old and older, provide what has been called a cruise ship lifestyle in their own neighborhood. Along Florida 210, west of Cimarrone Golf Club, Stillwater will contain an estimated 550 housing units in St. Johns County. While pricing has not been nailed down, homes are estimated between the mid$200,000 to the high $400,000 range. The homes will be accompanied by a
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