WEDNESDAY December 4, 2019
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City issues permit for Blue Bamboo II
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Christie Jones Bird is the founder of Jones and Rose Skin Care, now open at St. Johns Town Center. She said it is was a “really big deal” being able to open a store in the “shopping mecca of Jacksonville.”
The locally owned company sells handmade, naturally derived skin care products. BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
Christie Jones Bird, founder of Jones and Rose Skin Care, said she didn’t expect her company to find space at St. Johns Town Center. Her 13-year-old, locally owned company with a four-person staff occupied a small building on Christopher Road, a largely residential area of Lakewood. Jones Bird said she was hoping to find a space near the Town Center, or have a pop-up shop there. The mall had a few openings, so she was able to work out a
one-year lease. The storefront is at 10281 Midtown Parkway, No. 123. It’s the former Tervis store next to P.F. Chang’s and Kilwins. It opened Nov. 15. She said she considers the area the “shopping mecca of Jacksonville.” “We’ve been relatively unknown and being at the Town Center gives us the opportunity that we’re a local business, come and see us,” Jones Bird said. “We can actually share the types of products we create with the city of Jacksonville. It was really a big deal for us.” Jones and Rose sells skin care products with natural ingredients. The products mostly are used from the neck down, she said. SEE STORE, PAGE 2
Jones and Rose Skin Care is at 10281 Midtown Parkway, No. 123 in St. Johns Town Center. It’s the former Tervis space.
Chef Dennis Chan plans to open the Mandarin restaurant by summer. The city issued a permit Monday for chef Dennis Chan to renovate and expand a former law office he bought in Mandarin for Blue Bamboo II, his second area restaurant. Chan said previously he hoped to open Blue Bamboo II next summer. The Angelo Group Inc. is the contractor for the $2.19 million project to convert and expand the building at 10110 San Jose Blvd. into a 7,401-square-foot restaurant for Chan. Chan, through Blue Bamboo Land LLC, paid $899,000 for the property in November. Chan bought the property from William H. Jeter Jr., John S. Duss IV, Theresa M. Kenney and Michael Taylor Bowlus, the deed shows. The 4,300-square-foot building was built in 1978 on 1.05 acres at northwest San Jose Boulevard and Haley Road. Construction and site-clearing permits for Blue Bamboo II total almost $2.25 million. Chan will add a kitchen and bar. Tom Ranney is designing the interior. Chan said Meek Development Group Inc., which is managing the project, brought in a team that includes Doherty SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
Tru by Hilton to begin construction Tru by Hilton is cleared for construction in Mandarin. The city approved site clearing and construction Nov. 21 of a four-story, 106-room Tru by Hilton hotel at 2970 Hartley Road at a cost of almost $12.6 million. Stellar Group Inc. is the contractor for the almost 48,300-squarefoot hotel on 2.08 acres at San Jose Boulevard and Interstate 295. The Tru Hotel Mandarin site is under development on property owned by affiliates of Stellar, a Jacksonville-based global design, engineering, construction and mechanical services company.
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