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Friday, March 2, 2018
Vol. 105, No. 075 • One Section
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Toll Brothers buys land in E-Town
A YEAR OF CHANGE AND ADJUSTMENT
Luxury homebuilder pays $4.9 million for 113 acres. By Karen Brune Mathis Editor
Luxury homebuilder Toll Brothers is the second singlefamily residential developer to buy property at E-Town, the undeveloped Southside property along Florida 9B in southern Duval County. Toll Southeast LP Co. Inc. paid almost $4.9 million for 113 acres along R.G. Skinner Parkway in a sale completed Wednesday. There was no statement of how many homesites that would comprise, although David Weekley Homes, the first builder to buy in E-Town, bought 111 acres and plans 143 homes. Toll Brothers bought the property from Eastland Timber LLC, led by Vice President Jed Davis. The site is east of Interstate 295 and Florida 9B along E-Town Parkway, also known as R.G. Skinner Parkway. Roger O’Steen with The PARC Group, which is developing E-Town on property owned by the Davis family, said Toll Brothers planned a single-family community. A Toll Brothers spokesman had no comment Thursday. Toll Brothers, based in Horsham, Pennsylvania, calls itself America’s Luxury Home Builder. In Northeast Florida, it is developing in nine communities and
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4th Judicial Circuit Public Defender Charlie Cofer and State Attorney Melissa Nelson have been in office for 14 months.
State Attorney Melissa Nelson and Public Defender Charlie Cofer reflect on their first year in office.
By Max Marbut Associate Editor
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n the 14 months since they took office, 4th Judicial Circuit State Attorney Melissa Nelson and Public Defender Charlie Cofer have changed how their offices operate. They also are working to change how the public perceives the work done by the state’s prosecutors and defense attorneys who represent defendants with criminal charges who
can’t afford to hire an attorney. And they’re adjusting to professional lives with responsibilities far different than those they had before being elected. Nelson, who began her legal career as an assistant state attorney, was in private civil practice for seven years before her election. She had no interest in seeking public office until she decided it was time for a change in how defendants are prosecuted in Clay, Reflect
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Former Goodwill store on Blanding could become ChenMed It would be the third area location for medical center that serves senior citizens.
ChenMed, which plans to open a Dedicated Senior Medical Center in the Regency area of Arlington and in Northwest Jacksonville, appears to have chosen a third location. A Goodwill store at 6841 Blanding Blvd. in Southwest Jacksonville was sold Jan. 17 to TH Jacksonville 6841 Blanding LLC of Santa Monica, California. TH Jacksonville 6841 Bland-
ing shares the same address as TH Jacksonville 3059 Edgewood LLC, which bought a former ABC Liquors store in Northwest Jacksonville to develop a ChenMed Center. The 11,000-square-foot Goodwill store was built in 2004 on 1.38 acres. Karen Phillips, chief operating officer of Goodwill Industries of Northeast Florida, said it was
one of the nonprofit’s first stores. Goodwill is working with a developer to build a new site to allow for more parking, a larger production room and a donation drivethru that is visible from the road. The first identified site for ChenMed is in Arlington. CBJ Construction Inc. is the contractor for the 13,500-square-foot build-out at a cost of $600,000 at 9420 and 9422 Arlington
Expressway in the center of the Regency Pointe shopping center. The property owner is Sandor Development. The business owner is Chen Central Florida Holdings of Miami Gardens. In Northwest Jacksonville, a Dedicated Senior Medical Center is planned in the former ABC Liquors at 3059 Edgewood Ave. Mathis
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