Daily Record Financial News &
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Vol. 105, No. 034 • One Section
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UniFirst to build laundry center at Perimeter West
Averitt issued permit for terminal Trucking company building $5 million facility to replace its current site, plans to add to workforce. The city issued a permit Dec. 19 for construction of the Averitt Express Inc. truck terminal and office in West Jacksonville at 7200 Commonwealth Ave. D.F. Chase Inc. of Nashville is the contractor for the $5 million construction job, comprising 56,440 square feet on almost 21 acres. A spokesman said previously Averitt, based in Cookesville, Tennessee, will build the center to better provide domestic and international distribution of domestic freight and international cargo for its customers across the country. Averitt operates a small location about 2 miles away at 723 Scotia Road that will close upon the move. It also expects to add employees to the 77-person workforce. Gresham, Smith and Partners is the architect and structural engineer. Prosser Inc. is the civil engineer and landscape architect.
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UniFirst Corp. wants to build an industrial laundry facility in Northwest Jacksonville with completion late this year.
Uniform company now leases along Haines Street, plans to expand to meet growing area demand.
By Karen Brune Mathis Editor UniFirst Corp. plans to build an industrial laundry facility in Northwest Jacksonville in the Perimeter West Industrial Park. Plans filed with the city show a 52,000-square-foot structure on 5.62 acres at 4251 Perimeter Industrial Parkway E., at northeast Interstate 295 and Pritchard Road. No contractor has been chosen for the $6
million construction job. KWJ Architects Inc. of Tampa is the architect. Adam Soreff, director of marketing and communications, said UniFirst’s current facility along Haines Street is a branch operation, which works with a larger servicing plant in Ocala to process the garments. “This new facility will be a much larger, full-fledged servicing plant operation that UniFirst
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Fields Auto Group plans to park Porsche next to Jaguar Land Rover Dealer will build, renovate facilities at dealership on Atlantic Boulevard. By Karen Brune Mathis Editor Fields Auto Group is creating a side-by-side presence along Atlantic Boulevard for two of its dealerships. Fields intends to build a Jaguar Land Rover Jacksonville dealership to the east of its existing location at 11211 Atlantic Blvd. and then redevelop the original
location for Porsche. Its Porsche dealership, in turn, will relocate from 10100 Atlantic Blvd. No decision has been made about the next use for that building. Garry Redig, vice president of operations, said Jaguar Land Rover requires Fields to build a new facility, which is common in the auto industry. “We are thinking it’s easier to
move next door,” he said. Fields owns the land and is rezoning it. Ordinance 2017-836 calls for 12.1 acres to be rezoned from one Planned Unit Development to another for the expansion. The developer is Fields PAG Inc.; the architect is The JRB Group Architects; and the civil engineer is Prosser Inc. Fields
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A rendering of the new Fields Jaguar Land Rover Jacksonville showroom. The manufacturer launched the “Arch” concept of design to build the “dualed” dealerships in conjoined structures.
The Cawton Report: Financing secured for Barnett “There are a lot of good things planned for 2018,” says developer Steve Atkins. Public
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