Daily Record Financial News &
Thursday, January 7, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 039 • One Section
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Brown receives federal subpoena
Says issue is linked to politics
The Northbank Riverwalk between Hogan and Newnan streets is closed while JEA performs maintenance on a sewer pipe beneath the Jacksonville Landing. The project is scheduled for completion in early March.
Photo by Max Marbut
By David Chapman Staff Writer
Take a new route until March JEA sewer project closes Northbank Riverwalk at Landing
By Max Marbut Staff Writer If you’re contemplating a stroll Downtown along the Northbank Riverwalk in front of the Jacksonville Landing, you’ll have to put it on your calendar for March. That section of the walkway was closed Monday because JEA is performing maintenance on the 40-year-old, 54-inch sanitary sewer pipe that runs directly under the courtyard at the riverfront entertainment and retail center. The pipe is not in danger of failing, but it’s a critical piece of infrastructure, said Greg Corcoran, JEA manager of Project Outreach, the utility’s community involvement department.
“We want to add another 20 years to its life,” he said. The pipe carries about 4.5 million gallons of sewage each day from Downtown and Riverside to the Buckman Wastewater Treatment Plant along Talleyrand Corcoran Avenue. Instead of digging a trench through the Landing from Hogan Street almost to Newnan Street, a liner will be installed inside the pipe. The other alternative, Corcoran said,
would be to install a replacement pipe underneath Independent Drive. But that also would have involved digging a trench and closing the street while the work was underway. The Riverwalk is closed so a 24-inch temporary bypass line to carry the wastewater can be installed to continue carrying the wastewater to the treatment facility. “All people will see on the Riverwalk is a black pipe. It will be sealed and there will be no odor,” Corcoran said. Most of the two-month schedule for the $1.05 million project will be devoted to setting up the temporary pipe and the relining equipment and then removing both. Installation of the liner will take only about Riverwalk
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U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was served a federal subpoena Monday evening during dinner at a Northside barbecue restaurant, but little is known publicly about the reasons behind it. Brown’s only response Wednesday afternoon brought up redistricting — an issue she’s been fighting for months. She said the “unfounded and politically motivated actions” from the subpoena wouldn’t distract her on the job. “The 5th congressional district is under attack through the redistricting process, and now it is under siege by other political forces,” the longtime Congress member said in the statement. She went on to say it “is not surprising” that when a redistricting process happens, some “tangential investigation comes up.” A longtime supporter and oftenhired hand, Von Brown Alexander, also was served a subpoena this week. Brown has been embroiled in the redistricting issue after the Florida Supreme Court last year ruled her district had to be redrawn. The snakelike district had run north to south, curving from Jacksonville to Orlando. A new map running east to west from Jacksonville to Tallahassee has been upheld, but Brown has filed a challenge in federal court. Her complaint alleges the new maps deprive black voters the opportunity to elect a representative of their choice. On Wednesday, an order was issued for Brown continued on Page A-4
Contract on 12.9-acre Southside industrial site
What the owner calls one of the last available tracts of heavyindustrial zoned land in Southside could soon have a buyer and a development. Jody O’Donnell, director of LMI East Inc., said Wednesday he has a contract to sell a 12.9acre site off Greenland Road to a Jacksonville material handling company. He declined to identify the prospective buyer or purchase price. The land near Greenland Industrial Park can accommodate up to 100,000 square feet of warehousing space. He said the prospective buyer wants to expand on the property. O’Donnell owns and is presi-
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dent of LMI Landscapes in Carrollton, Texas, near Dallas, with additional operations in Austin and Denver. He operated a commercial landscaping company on the Southside property but closed it about 2008 as the recession took hold. He wasn’t marketing the Jacksonville land, which is largely undeveloped except for some small buildings used in his former venture. Instead, he said prospective buyers sought him out, which is an indication of the market’s activity. “It’s certainly picking up and more encouraging than it’s been,” he said.
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ing either developing it in a joint venture for retail use or selling it.
He continues to follow the Jacksonville market, “keeping a pulse of what’s going on.” O’Donnell bought the Southside property, at 11901 Fayal Drive, for $262,500 in February 1999 and invested in it to create the landscape operation. It is assessed at $845,458 by the Duval County Property Appraiser. He also owns 8 acres in St. Johns County with frontage on County Road 210. He is consider-
Clothes Mentor considers Jacksonville a multistore market
The Clothes Mentor women’s clothing re-sale chain could open up to four stores in Jacksonville. Jenny Mann, director of marketing for NTY Franchise Co., said a lease was signed for a second store, this one at 9922 Old Baymeadows Road in Deerwood Village Mall. Mann expects an early spring opening and referred questions to franchise owner Guy Hanna. He has not responded to emailed
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questions. The first Clothes Mentor announced for Jacksonville is in the Claire Lane Center in Mandarin at 11112 San Jose Blvd. Franchise owner Dayna Cerullo said in December the 3,207-squarefoot store should open in the spring. Mann said franchises haven’t been sold for the next one or two Jacksonville stores. Clothes Mentor stores buy and resell designer and name-brand women’s clothing and accessories. The stores buy used clothing outright, paying cash immediately to sellers. Mann, at NTY’s headquarters Mathis continued on Page A-2
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