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Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 052 • One Section
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One Spark dropping to one-day Deadline for registration extended through February
San Jose, Hendricks Daily’s planned First Coast Energy LLP is adding to its footprint in Jacksonville by redeveloping properties along Hendricks Avenue and San Jose Boulevard, as well as putting in a new location in St. Johns County. In Duval County, the Jacksonville-based owner and operator of Daily’s convenience stores and gas stations, applied for a mobility fee certificate to redevelop 1.04 acres at 3973 Hendricks Ave. and to rebuild its Shell station at 5640 San Jose Blvd., just 1.5 miles south. “We look at our customer profile, our market and that is such a great, active, growing, strong area,” said First Coast Energy General Counsel Keith Daw. “The traffic is definitely there and that is an area we hadn’t served well before,” he said. All three sites would be the Daily’s brand. Daw said the Hendricks location would include a Daily’s DASH, the banner’s fastcasual restaurant that offers made-to-order breakfast and lunch items. Construction could start in the second quarter and be completed by early next year. The Hendricks site comprises three parcels acquired by First Coast Energy in December. Those properties comprise a rug store, a single-family residence and a tire store-auto repair shop that would be removed. The mobility-fee application states the First Coast Energy was buying the land and proposes a 5,000-square-foot store with eight pumps and 16 fueling positions. The city calculated the mobility fee at $93,139. The city’s mobility fee is the cost for a new development based upon the link between land development and transportation. The San Jose site is a 0.64-acre property that First Coast Energy would rebuild as a new 5,000-squre-foot service station, keeping the existing count of four pumps and Mathis continued on Page A-2
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being changed to make it simpler and more open, but a yet to-bedetermined limit on the number of exhibits will be maintained, as will the jury process to select which projects will be showcased. “However many we end up announcing will be the best they can be,” he said. After three years of losing money, organizers are making what Byers called a “late pivot” that hopefully will lower the risk and increase the chance of stability.
Terrell Newberry enjoys pets, boating and grilling out. He’ s pictured here with his Big Green Egg grill, which he uses to slow-cook a pork butt or fast-cook a pizza.
The prize structure will remain based on contributions to projects from attendees, unless a sponsor comes forward. “We are not in a place to be able to offer prizes,” said Byers. A new incentive plan for exhibitors will be part of the upcoming announcement. “I think the creators will be no less happy than they were,” he said. mmarbut@jaxdailyrecord.com (904) 356-2466
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Proven recipe for success: Be yourself
Photo by Carole Hawkins
One Spark 2016 will be a oneday festival sometime in early April. That was the announcement made this morning by Chris Byers, festival chief operating officer. Admitting he would have to be “somewhat vague” ahead of a formal announcement “in a week, or maybe two,” Byers said the festival will be different than the
downsized version of the event announced a few months ago. Last year’s festival was six days, including the speaker series. Byers assured attendees at Downtown Vision Inc.’s quarterly stakeholder meeting the festival will happen again. “We are absolutely planning to have an event this April,” he said. He also said the deadline for exhibitors to register has been pushed back from Friday to the end of February. The registration process is
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By Max Marbut Staff Writer
Terrell Newberry, broker/owner of Century 21 Atkins Realty, is NEFAR’s 2016 president.
Relationships are key for NEFAR president By Carole Hawkins Staff Writer Terrell Newberry doesn’t know how to be a stranger. Asked to share “the story you don’t want to tell,” he launches without hesitation into a tale about Brownie, a pet goat he had as a child. There aren’t too many things cuter than a goat, he recalls. They have oddly rectangular pupils and they’re curious about everything. The story has a sad ending, though. His family returned Brownie when the neighbors complained about the bleating.
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They checked back six months later and he was no more — Brownie the goat had been eaten. It’s five minutes into the conversation and Newberry has already been friendly, vulnerable, funny, poignant. The 63-year-old real estate broker is president of the Northeast Florida Association of Realtors for 2016. Newberry isn’t a guy who’ll surprise you with the latest new trick for how to succeed in the business. Instead an old truism: Businesses grow because of relationships. The best way to build relationships is through transparency. Just be yourself. He grew up in Pelham, Ga., a town that
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still has fewer than 4,000 residents. A place as unassuming as Newberry, Pelham was a waypoint for The Goat Man, an itinerant who lived out of a wagon and raised a herd of goats. When Newberry was 11 his father, an electrician, committed suicide. The instant loss was surreal at first and then, a void and sense of guilt followed. It was that moment Newberry became the man of the house. His mother, more dependent and more protective, held onto the family she had left. It was a small circle that included Newberry and a half-sister, who was six years Newberry continued on Page A-3
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