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The Torrance, Californiabased company says the facility will open in the first quarter of 2022. BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
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An artist’s rendering of the Four Seasons Hotel and Residences along the St. Johns River south of TIAA Bank Field. Room rates at the luxury hotel chain can exceed $1,000 a night.
Jaguars President Mark Lamping says he is confident that a licensing agreement will be reached with the luxury hotel chain before a groundbreaking in June 2022.
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s of now, some of the highest room rates in Jacksonville-area hotels are $373 to $564 per night, although one of the highest is listed at $5,000 per night for the club level, one-bedroom presidential suite at The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island. Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan will challenge those rates if his deal works to develop a Four Seasons hotel on the Downtown riverfront. The Four Seasons Resort at Walt Disney World, the closest to Jacksonville, is listed at $1,015 per night.
“If we didn’t think it could be successful, Shad certainly wouldn’t be investing this amount of money and Four Seasons wouldn’t be interested in coming here,” Jaguars President Mark Lamping told the Meninak Club of Jacksonville on June 28. “If executed properly, it can be successful.” Lamping says he is confident his organization will have a licensing agreement with the Four Seasons hotel brand before the team’s development company breaks ground on the proposed Downtown luxury hotel in June 2022. Lamping told Downtown Investment AuthorSEE HOTEL, PAGE 8
CarParts.com Inc., based in Torrance, California, announced June 29 it will open a 180,000-squarefoot distribution center in Northwest Jacksonville and create 150 full-time positions. The center will open in the first quarter of 2022 at 6610 Pritchard Road, Building 300, in Crossroads Distribution Center. CarParts.com said the Jacksonville distribution center will stock and allow for expansion of auto parts categories, including mechanical, replacement and Certified Automotive Parts Association-certified collision parts. CarParts.com Chief Operating Officer David Meniane said Jacksonville is positioned to support the Southeastern U.S. market. “Our new warehouse will play a key role in helping us keep its drivers on the road with confidence,” Meniane said in a news release. “The Jacksonville distribution center will let us cover 55% of the country with 1-day shipping and over 98% of the country with a 2-day transit time including both the Miami and Atlanta metropolitan areas,” he said in the release. “Jacksonville has a talented workforce and its proximity to the port also increases efficiencies and decreases lead times. In the first quarter of this year, we grew revenues 65% and our continued investment in our supply chain will help us further disrupt the auto industry.”
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