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The bank is renovating space in the Bank of America Tower, where it will move its Jacksonville offices this summer.
ville, but the ones that are there are performing very well for us,” he said. Bhagwandat said Jacksonville can handle about 25 restaurants, a number the company plans to pursue over the next decade. He said those locations will use the company’s prefabricated modular restaurant format. “They’re only about 1,000 square feet and conservatively, I’d say cost between $750,000 and $800,000 to open,” Bhag-
SunTrust Banks Inc. is making its initial moves to relocate from the Downtown tower that bears its name into the nearby Bank of America Tower. The city is reviewing plans for SunTrust to build-out 15,529 square feet of space, which is the bulk of the 32nd floor of the 42-story high-rise, at a cost of $1.01 million. The floor size is listed at almost 17,200 square feet. The space now is occupied by U.S. Trust Bank of America Private Wealth Management. Called the SunTrust financial center on some of the plans, the space will comprise offices, open office space, conference rooms, a “social center” break room and other functions. SunTrust will move a block north from the SunTrust Tower at 76 S. Laura St. to the Bank of America Tower at 50 N. Laura St. The building plans do not show a ground-floor SunTrust
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Checkers drive-thru restaurants are prefabricated in Ormond Beach. “It saves our franchisees about eight to 10 weeks of job site work, labor and other costs so they can get open quicker and have less overhead,” says Robert Bhagwandat, Checkers’ director of franchise development.
Fast-food chain with seven restaurants in Duval County says it plans to open four more in 2019. BY DAVID CAWTON STAFF WRITER
More Checkers drive-thru fast food restaurants are coming to Jacksonville as part of the brand’s push into the Northeast Florida market.
Ta m p a - b a s e d Checkers & Rally’s Restaurants Inc. plans to open at least four Jacksonville locations in 2019, according to the company’s director of franchise devel- Bhagwandat opment. Robert Bhagwandat said the company is under capacity in Jacksonville with seven locations. “We don’t have nearly as many restaurants as we would like to have in Jackson-
JinkSolar factory building sold Hillwood sold the JinkoSolar/Industry West building in AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center on Dec. 19 for $30.7 million to Richardson Logistics Assets LLC, whose directors are based in Singapore. Richardson Logistics Assets has a U.S. address in New York City. Dallas-based Hillwood developed the 407,435-square-foot building on 35.5 acres at 4660 POW-MIA Memorial Parkway in the Westside business park. Hillwood bought the land from the city for $322,600 in December 2016. The building was completed recently.
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