Daily Record Financial News &
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Vol. 102, No. 169 • One Section
A game worth waiting for
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Deutsche Bank close to leasing PHH site
Photo by Wes Lester/City of Jacksonville
By Karen Brune Mathis Managing Editor
Jacksonville Sports Council CEO Rick Catlett talks about Jacksonville hosting Notre Dame-Navy next year at EverBank Field. He was joined at the Wednesday news conference by, from left, retired U.S. Navy Adm. Bob Natter, Mayor Lenny Curry and sports council Chairman Carl Cannon.
How Jacksonville secured the N.D.-Navy game
By David Chapman Staff Writer Rick Catlett stood at the podium Wednesday, the EverBank Field scoreboards behind him displaying two teams that will make their way to town next November for a signature event. Notre Dame and Navy, two of college football’s iconic brands playing their annual tilt in a city steeped in naval tradition. Catlett, CEO of the Jacksonville Sports Council, later called the game “the worst kept secret in Jacksonville.” It had been rumored for months and was
made official Wednesday with a news conference attended by Mayor Lenny Curry, the Navy athletic director and other officials. The work led by Catlett came well before that rain-stricken press event. It’s been in the making for a couple of years now, actually coming to fruition after rumors of another game sprung up several years back and a little misfortune elsewhere. “We all worked very hard to make this happen,” said Catlett, sitting in his office well after the TV cameras left. Those efforts started with him.
Years in the making
Catlett said he’s been working on the game for a couple of years now. His right-hand man and friend, Alan Verlander, said Catlett has been thinking about it for maybe 20 years. The game fans heard about Wednesday grew legs six to eight years ago, when rumors of another highly decorated game — Army-Navy — was rumored to come to Jacksonville. “We investigated that back in the ‘80s,” Catlett said. “It’s financially not feasible.” Game
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Deutsche Bank is finalizing plans to lease the PHH Mortgage building in Southside, according to sources familiar with the deal but who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the transaction. The lease would provide Deutsche Bank with a three-story, 150,000-square-foot building near its campus at Meridian Business Park, where it leases about 200,000 square feet. Deutsche Bank declined to respond to questions about a PHH Mortgage building lease, re-issuing its statement that “Jacksonville continues to be a critical component of our location footprint in the Americas.” Deutsche Bank has been building its Jacksonville presence since 2008 and employs about 1,700 people in the city. It has leased the entire single-story, five-building Meridian Business Park at 5022 Gate Parkway, a little more than a mile from the PHH building at 5201 Gate Parkway. In addition to Meridian, Deutsche Bank leases another 110,000 square feet of space at Butler Plaza along Belfort Road. It’s unclear if Deutsche Bank would keep that space or relocate those functions to the PHH Mortgage building. The PHH Mortgage building is managed by Lingerfelt CommonWealth Partners, which has a large portfolio of properties in Jacksonville. That includes Butler Plaza. Dan Santinga, Jacksonville director of leasing for Lingerfelt CommonWealth Partners, declined comment Tuesday when asked about a Deutsche Bank lease at the PHH building. He said previously that tenant PHH Mortgage is planning to downsize to 80,000 to 100,000 square feet and exploring its options where to locate. The PHH lease expires Nov. 30, 2016, which would give Deutsche Bank time to phase in its operations. kmathis@jaxdailyrecord.com @MathisKb (904) 356-2466
K9s for Warriors: ‘These dogs work miracles’
Nonprofit’s new facility can pair more veterans with dogs By Kevin Hogencamp Contributing Writer U.S. Navy veteran Matt Masingill was in the early moments of one of his periodic anxiety attacks — and didn’t know it. But Dozer, his canine companion, did. It was July 2013 — about two weeks after Masingill and his Labrador-mastiff mix were matched through K9s for Warriors, a St. Johns County-based nonprofit. The episode at a crowded farmer’s market was an epiphany for the duo. Masingill, 42, has post-traumatic stress disorder after being deployed in Iraq, Kosovo, Somalia and the Indian Ocean. “Matt kept saying that Dozer was acting up,” says Masingill’s wife, Danique. “I said to Matt, ‘Feel your forehead.’” He was in a cold sweat. “That’s when we knew that Dozer
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knows exactly what is going on with Matt — before Matt knows, himself,” she said. Shari and Bobby Duval founded K9s for Warriors in 2011 to bring aid and comfort to their son and other U.S. military veterans with PTSD or traumatic brain injury resulting from serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, the organization, which doesn’t charge for its services, also assists veterans who have military sexual trauma. On Wednesday, K9s for Warriors unveiled Camp K9 — its new $6 million, 27-kennel Nocatee campus. The organization connected 170 service dogs and veterans in four years at its modest five-kennel
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Palm Valley campus. Now, it can serve up to 192 “warriors” per year. Nearly all of the agency’s service dogs are trained after being rescued from shelters. “These dogs work miracles,” Shari Duval said. Camp K9’s 17,000-square-foot headquarters has living facilities for 16 program participants; a clubhouse with a full kitchen, dining hall, communal area, exercise room and library, and staff offices. The nine-acre campus across from Palm Valley Golf Club also has five enclosed dog parks for training exercises and a boneshaped pool for the newly hitched K9s and warriors. K9s continued on Page A-3
Hugh Borchers, the kennel master for K9s For Warriors, and his partner, Guinness. They are graduates of the program.
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