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CoolRoom approved for build-out
Morris family taking steps Daily Record to redevelop T-U property JACKSONVILLE
Tapestry Park CoolSculpting business is owned by former Jacksonville Jaguars punter and his wife.
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The Morris family provided these artist’s renderings to the city as it works to develop the property it owns at 1 Riverside Ave. The renderings are outdated, but the Morris director of real estate says “everything is on the table.”
BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
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KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Georgia company that sold the newspaper in 2017 is talking to the city about infrastructure and the future of McCoys Creek, which runs under the site.
As The Florida-Times Union staff prepares to move Downtown in the second quarter, the Morris family is laying the groundwork to redevelop the 1 Riverside Ave. riverfront property the newspaper has anchored since 1967. Upon the move, the fivestory office building and adjacent production center most likely will remain vacant until the Morrises decide the next step for what could become a mix of apartments, retail and hotel uses. Office space also is a possibility. “The Morrises love Jacksonville,” said Allen Grinalds, director of real estate for Augusta, Georgia-based Morris Communications Co. LLC. “They know they have a key piece of property,” he said. “They don’t want to leave a
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vacant industrial site on the river.” The Morris family acquired the Times-Union and the property in 1982. The family sold the newspaper in October 2017 but retains the 18.8-acre site, which is west of the Acosta Bridge along the 2-mile Northbank Riverwalk that links Interstate 95 to Berkman Plaza. The property sits next to the Haskell headquarters and faces the resurging Brooklyn neighborhood where apartments, restaurants, retailers and a hotel are open or in
development. It also is within the Downtown Investment Authority boundaries, raising the option of incentives to assist in the redevelopment. Before pursuing redevelopment, Grinalds and land-use lawyer Steve Diebenow are talking with the city about infrastructure at the property. Diebenow, a partner with Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow, focuses his practice on real estate, land use, zoning, and government law.
CoolRoom, a venture owned by former Jacksonville Jaguars punter Adam Podlesh and his wife, Miranda, was approved for tenant build-out in Tapestry Park. Platinum Construction Southeast Inc. is the contractor for the almost $92,000 build-out of almost 1,500 square feet of space in Tapestry Park. Podlesh, now a private wealth manager with Merrill Lynch, and his wife, Miranda, a former emergency room nurse, are launching CoolRoom. The CoolSculpting process focuses on a technological procedure that freezes a patient’s fat cells so that the body can shed them naturally and permanently. Adam Podlesh functions as the business financial officer. He said the couple considered several endeavors. “Nothing really made sense to me as far as being a realistic way of delving into the business world until now. Looking at the business model, it just made sense,” he said. Miranda Podlesh is the operator of CoolRoom. “We love helping patients and making them feel good about themselves, and this has provided me with an unexpected and very different way of fulfilling that from what I was previously used to, which was helping very sick people,” she said. She said Thursday she expects the business to open in March.
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Wayfair warehouse wins permit Wayfair Inc.’s Cecil Commerce Center warehouse is taking shape. The city issued a permit Wednesday for The Conlan Co. to build the foundation of the 1 million-square-foot warehouse at 13483 103rd St. at a cost of $1.63 million. The city also is reviewing permit applications for Conlan to build the center at a cost of $49 million and to build-out 16,280 square feet of office space at a cost of $3.5 million. Developer Hillwood is building the distribution center for the online retailer of home furnishings. The city said the building will be completed by year-end 2020 and the 250 jobs created by the end of 2021.
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