Daily Record Financial News &
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 058 • Two Sections
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HRO critics bring in big names Private event planned hours before first council debate
By David Chapman Staff Writer Round 2 on expanding Jacksonville’s anti-discrimination laws starts Thursday and the opposition is bringing in some heavy-hitters. A contingent of religious leaders opposing expansion of the human rights ordinance has planned a “strategic briefing” lunch Thursday titled “The Threat of the HRO and its Impact on the Church.”
It’s one being led by former City Council President Ginger Soud and at least a dozen pastors from the area, including the Rev. Mac Brunson of First Baptist Church, where the event will be hosted. They’re bringing in some wellknown guests for the effort. Baronelle Stutzman is the Washington-state florist who garnered national attention for refusing to sell flowers to a gay couple for their wedding based on her personal beliefs. Lawsuits in the
case are pending. She said Tuesday evening she’ll be in town to talk about her experience, including how she feels it infringed upon her rights. David Welch is a pastor from the Houston area and president of the U.S. Pastor Council that’s aided anti-LGBT legislative efforts around the country. That includes Houston, the last battleground city that voted against expanding LGBT protections in November. “Our role from the beginning
was basically to raise some critical questions, the purpose and the content of these ordinances,” he said Tuesday. “It’s to challenge the legitimacy and impact on the rest of the community. … It’s bad public policy.” Welch said the Jacksonville ordinance, like Houston’s and others he’s seen, “has the fingerprints of the Human Rights Campaign all over it.” The campaign, a national civil rights organization that pursues LGBT rights, has been involved
in the Jacksonville efforts. Welch said if that organization can bring resources from the national level to Jacksonville, “it’s certainly legitimate” for area pastors and faith leaders to reach out to others across the U.S. Both Stutzman and Welch, along with Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Kellie Fiedorek will be in town on a pro bono basis, they said. The luncheon is a private event and those who attend will be HRO continued on Page A-3
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Laundry is morning to almost midnight venture at the 963-room Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront. These dryers run from about 7 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. seven days a week.
No escaping laundry at the Hyatt
18 Hours a day spent doing laundry
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Gallons of laundry soap used each month
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Pounds of laundry per load
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Sheets folded per hour
10,000 Bed sheets kept on hand
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By Max Marbut Staff Writer For most of us, laundry is a weekly chore that takes a few hours — or maybe several — depending on how many people are in the household. At the 963-room Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, the washers and dryers run 18 hours a day, seven days a week. Northeast Florida’s largest hotel maintains a triple inventory of sheets, pillowcases and bath linens to ensure the housekeeping department can get rooms ready for new guests as soon as guests check out of the hotel. Each bed is made up with three sheets and a comforter, plus as
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First Coast Energy LLP, which wants to better populate San Jose Boulevard with its Daily’s gas stations and convenience stores, paid $4.25 million for property to expand along the major Southside corridor. The Jacksonville-based company bought 5 acres at 9545 San Jose Blvd., which is at southeast Sunbeam Road and San Jose Boulevard. The acquisition, in the wake of a property purchase along Hendricks Avenue and an intention to redevelop a Shell station at San Jose and University boulevards, will create three new Daily’s in the targeted area. Hendricks Avenue connects to San Jose Boulevard south of San Marco, where Daily’s opened its newest store Jan. 14. “We don’t have a lot of coverage for Daily’s between Interstate 295 and our new San Marco location,” said First Coast Energy General Counsel Keith Daw. First Coast Energy LLP bought the San Jose Boulevard and Sunbeam Road property from Solomon Properties LLC. The deed was recorded Tuesday. The property’s assessed value is almost $2.5 million. It includes a 54,077-squarefoot building that features a Bailey’s Health & Fitness center and several other tenants. Daw said the existing structures would remain on the property. First Coast Energy will build the Daily’s on open property fronting San Jose Boulevard. It is directly opposite San Jose Boulevard from a Gate Petroleum Co. gas station and convenience store and the Gate headquarters. There’s no timetable for construction of the Daily’s, Daw said. The store likely will be a 5,000-square-foot design with its signature DASH food service, fuel pumps and probably a car wash. He said plenty of tenant parking will
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2nd Daily’s planned along San Jose
It can get pretty hot in here in the summer. But in the winter, it’s nice. It can be one of the warmest rooms in the hotel. Krystal Cooper Laundry supervisor at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront
many as five pillowcases. That’s nearly 10,000 bed sheets and just as many bath towels, hand towels, washcloths and bath mats, said Kenneth McClain, assistant executive housekeeper. “We like to keep one set in circulation, one being washed and a backup,” he said. Napkins and tablecloths for the hotel’s catering and room service,
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restaurant, lounge and sports bar and staff uniforms also are part of the daily job. Since the Hyatt is pet-friendly, dog beds are washed and dried. “Everything our guests touch goes through our laundry,” said Krystal Cooper, laundry supervisor. To keep up with that much washing, drying, folding and pressing, Workspace continued on Page A-7
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