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Friday, August 12, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 195 • One Section
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Church of Eleven22 expanding again San Pablo-based church pays $3.4M for 11-acre Mandarin site
The Church of Eleven22 Inc. continues to expand, buying church property in Mandarin last week. Duval County Clerk of Court records show it paid $3.4 million for a location at 4911 Losco Road. It acquired the site from Lutheran Church Extension Fund-Missouri Synod, based in St. Louis. The Church of Eleven22 opened its main campus at 14286 Beach Blvd. and in January expanded into Baymeadows.
A deed and mortgage recorded Wednesday with the Duval County Clerk of Court show the church bought the Losco Road property Aug. 3 and received a $2.89 million mortgage Tuesday from Compass Bank. The 11-acre property comprises an almost 21,200-square-foot, one-story church developed in 2004 and a 2,143-square-foot converted residence built in 1979. The Access Church website says it meets at the property at
Council to decide on money for Downtown
9 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Accesschurch.org says the church is a strategic partner of North Point Ministries, whose website says it is based in Alpharetta, Ga. Access Church did not return calls late Wednesday or Thurs-
day. The Church of Eleven22 did not respond with information Thursday. Its website, coe22.com, says the church plans to launch locations three and four in 2017, but does not identify them. The Church of Eleven22 began in 2008 as a single service at Beach United Methodist Church in Jacksonville Beach. Beach United launched The Church of Eleven22 as a nondenominational church.
Eleven22 stands for Mark 11:22 in the New Testament book of the Bible. The Church of Eleven22 opened its main campus and worship center in September 2012 at 14286 Beach Blvd., in a former Walmart. It leases about 65,000 square feet in that center for its worship center and another 23,400 square feet for a thrift store and other uses, according to site plans with landlord Sleiman Enterprises. Mathis continued on Page A-3
Curry administration mistakenly sweeps $4.6M from DIA
By David Chapman Staff Writer
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Building custom homes is in my blood. I was nervous, at first, after taking so much time off, that things had changed too much.
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The first day of City Council budget reviews often have “uh-oh” moments. That is, surprises — sometimes worth millions of dollars — that require members to make tough decisions on the city’s spending plan. Council members are facing one early that could either end up taking several million dollars away from future Downtown development or leaving that same size hole in the budget. Mayor Lenny Curry’s team swept $4.6 million in unused Downtown Community Redevelopment Area funding from the end of fiscal 2015 to balance next year’s budget. Pulling yearend funds from it and other such redevelopment areas across the city is required by state law. However, council members and former Mayor Alvin Brown approved a local ordinance that placed the Mousa Downtown redevelopment money into a designated fund for the Downtown Investment Authority. “We were unaware of that,” said Sam Mousa, Curry’s chief administrative officer who helped craft the mayor’s spending plan. Mousa told the council Finance Committee on Thursday the decision was not intentional or malicious toward Downtown. Instead, it was an “honest oversight” that happened in the administration’s “overzealousness” in budget-making. And when Mousa was told days after Curry presented his budget to council, he said it was an “uh-oh.” Now, council members will have to make a decision: Should they waive the ordinance code and sweep the unused Downtown funding? Or do they leave it
Alan Fixel Custom builder on his return to town
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Alan Fixel
Custom builder returns to Jacksonville to ‘make mark’
By Jamie Swann, Contributing Writer
Like many boys growing up in Brooklyn, N.Y., young Alan Fixel had dreams of playing professional baseball. In the early 1970s, Fixel left Brooklyn at age 20, his dream still in tow and his sights set on Florida. “I was headed straight for Miami,” said Fixel. “I had my mind set on playing college baseball at the University of Miami.” While at college, Fixel soon realized professional baseball wasn’t in his future. After graduating with two master’s degrees — one in education and the other in education science — Fixel began teaching at Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Seven years later, Fixel was left wanting more. “A job teaching in the late ’70s really wasn’t a big moneymaker,” he said. “I was 30 years old and it was time to start making some money.”
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At that time, Jacksonville was seeing a spike in population, including some members of Fixel’s family. Seeing the potential in the residential construction business, Fixel made the five-hour drive north to make Jacksonville his new home. “I was basically starting from scratch again at 30 years old,” he said. Fixel began as a framer, but in 1983, in a partnership with his family, he began building homes in Jacksonville. Determined to pursue his passion of building custom homes, he left the family business in 1994 and formed AF Alan Custom Homes. Using his eye for detail and his talent for residential construction, Fixel’s next 17 years were spent pursing his passion. His custom-built homes can be found in Marsh Landing and the north side of Jacksonville, where he Fixel
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