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Commercial real estate is hopeful that the COVID-19 vaccine will revive the industry.
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Dr. Bridget Edkin is the owner of Sláinte Chiropractic in Jacksonville Beach. The inscription “Cead Mile Failte” means “a hundred thousand welcomes” and “Sláinte” is a toast to good health in Ireland and Scotland.
After deciding her career path, Dr. Bridget Edkin was determined to start a practice of her own and founded Sláinte Chiropractic.
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s the daughter of two chiropractors, Dr. Bridget Edkin initially wasn’t sold on following in her parents’ footsteps, or those of six other chiropractors in the family. “Everyone was a chiropractor and I just like to be different,” Edkin said. “So I ran from it.” The Sláinte Chiropractic owner had plans to become a music teacher, but when she could
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no longer pay for school, she took time off and became a manager of Cold Stone Creamery, running nine stores in the Northeast. It became clear her passion was not running ice cream stores. “Everywhere I went, I would just get people to go to a chiropractor,” she said. “I’d be like, ‘if you have that, you should go to a chiropractor.’ And people said ‘why don’t you just become a chiropractor?’”
Commercial real estate companies say the economy needs a specific shot in the arm to recover in 2021. “The most important stimulus tool(s) are the vaccines that are being deployed,” said CBRE in its Q4 Marketview report. “They will not prevent a difficult winter but should allow for some normalization of activity by the mid-Q2 2021,” it said. With the travel and hospitality industries likely to operate below their potential, technology and manufacturing should see a quicker path to recovery, it said. Last year began with the November elections anticipated to be the economic unknown. SEE MATHIS, PAGE 4
MORE INSIDE ■ Office, industrial and expert outlooks. Page 3 ■ Retail outlook. Page 4
SEE EDKIN, PAGE 7
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The attorney who wrote JEA investigation report Kevin Blodgett spent months on effort. PAGE 10 VOLUME 3, NO. 36 • ONE SECTION
