Daily Record Financial News &
Friday, June 24, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 160 • One Section
How The Bridge could look at night, left, and on weekends with an outdoor market.
Renderings from the Office of Architecture and Design
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Appeal denied for new Gate site DIA votes 5-2 in favor of Brooklyn design plan
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By Max Marbut Staff Writer
Brook Busey is redeveloping the former Pier 1 store at Sadler Point Marina on Roosevelt Boulevard.
Building The Bridge Restaurant to launch multiuse development at Sadler Point Marina
By Karen Brune Mathis Managing Editor Any day now, Brooks Busey expects to sign a lease for a restaurant at his new development at Sadler Point Marine Center in Jacksonville’s Westside. That restaurant, which he declines to identify pending the lease, will launch The Bridge, an 18,000-square-foot former furniture and marine retail store to be converted into retail, office and restaurant space. The property sits next to Sadler Point Marina at 4669 Roosevelt Blvd., along the Ortega River behind Roosevelt Square. Busey has been thinking about it
for about 17 years, since he started working at the marina property under its former owner. “I’ve been here since 1999 and have wanted to do something with this space,” he said. Sadler Point Marina Inc., led by Busey, includes his dad, lawyer Stephen Busey, and his sister, Durell Myers. The group bought the marina in January 2002, then the retail store in June 2010, which had been operating for years as the Pier 17 and Ship’s Locker nautical store. The building was developed in 1964. After owner Grace Rogers died in 2009, her daughter, Cynthia Segraves, continued to operate a Bridge continued on Page A-4
After nearly four hours, the Downtown Investment Authority board of directors on Thursday denied the appeal of the approval of the site design for Gate Petroleum Co’s. convenience store and gas station in Brooklyn. The authority is the appellate body for protest of approvals granted by the Downtown Development Review Board. In favor of denying the appeal were Craig Gibbs, Jack Meeks, Ron Moody, Kay Harper Williams and board Chair Jim Bailey, publisher of the Daily Record. Oliver Barakat and Brenna Durden supported the appeal. The action was brought by Riverside resident Kay Ehas, who disagreed with the review board’s decision to grant deviations to the city’s urban core design standards. She particularly objected to the store being built away from the street, which she described as “Gate applying a typical suburban design” to the site at Forest and Park streets near the Interstate 10-Interstate 95 interchange. “Downtown rules need to be applied consistently,” she said. The review board considered conceptual approval of the design March 10, but deferred action pending a workshop, after “a lot of debate” over the plan, said board member Roland Udenze. Conceptual approval was granted at a March 24 workshop, after more than 20 alternative designs were created, discussed and rejected, he said. The board supported bringing the store closer to Park Street, but how people and vehicles would move around the site was the “Achilles’ heel” of the project, said Udenze. Positioning the store away from the Gate continued on Page A-2
Choosing the right door for new career
NEFBA membership director comes from four generations of dairy farmers
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Unexpected factors put us in over our heads pretty quick — and there was no stopping the fall.
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Hans Krieg about his family dairy farm shutting down
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By Kevin Hogencamp Contributing Writer The cards seemed to have been dealt at birth for fourth-generation dairyman Hans Krieg. At age 6, he was handling farm chores; by high school graduation, he had a key role in his family’s flourishing agribusiness. His mother’s family also was in the dairy business, operating Skinners’ Dairy until the mid-1990s. Krieg recently joked that milk was in his blood. “I grew up believing that I would be a dairy producer like my father and grandfathers,” the Jacksonville native said. “I was groomed to handle the profession.”
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But the family business hit hard times — and everything changed. After pumping about $8.5 million into a new state-of-the-art dairy facility at the turn of the century, Mecklenburg Farms folded in 2004. Krieg said looking back, the company probably tried to expand too fast. “Unexpected factors put us in over our heads pretty quick — and there was no stopping the fall,” Krieg said. At Mecklenburg Farms, Krieg had advanced to operations director and vice president. Now 37, he is the Northeast Florida Builders Association’s member services director. Far removed from milking cows and 18 months into a job he never antici-
pated, Krieg says he’s in a great place in his career and his life. “God closes doors and opens new ones for good reasons,” he said.
Down but not out
For Krieg, starting over is a family trait. His paternal grandfather, PaulFriedrich Krieg, was a prolific East German dairy producer and cattle breeder whose assets and livelihood were seized by the Soviet government after World War II. He fought in the German Army on the Russian front, Krieg continued on Page A-3
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