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BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
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Orange Park Medical Center adding patient tower. BY MONTY ZICKUHR MANAGING EDITOR
Orange Park Medical Center is adding a patient tower that will house 48 beds, the hospital announced Monday. The 101,435-square-foot, four-story addition above the center’s emergency room will include two floors of private patient rooms and two floors built as shell space for expansion.
Hedge fund pays $7.7 million for Orange Park Mall location.
The addition will increase Orange Park Medical Center’s licensed beds to 365. The tower is part of a $126 million project that includes a new electrophysiology lab, dining room and kitchen, medical office building and NICU expansion. Orange Park Medical Center said the addition will create more than 100 jobs. Orange Park Medical Center CEO Chad
Baptist is building an emergency center at Oakleaf Town Center.
Baptist Health Properties Inc. is expanding into Southwest Jacksonville with a freestanding 20-bed emergency center scheduled to open in early 2020. Jacksonville-based Baptist Health said last week the $23 million facility will offer adult and pediatric emergency care at the Oakleaf Town Center at Argyle Forest Boulevard and Merchants Way next to the First Coast Expressway. The center also will serve Northern Clay County and is designed to meet the needs of the growing population between Interstate 10 and Florida 16.
New Sears owner buying properties Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert won the bid to buy the Sears Holding Corp.’s assets, and those appear to include two properties in Northeast Florida. ESL Investments Inc., led by Lampert, is buying the Sears assets for about $5.2 billion. The hedge fund bought the Sears store at Orange Park Mall at 1910 Wells Road on Feb. 11 for $7.7 million, Clay County records show. TF Orange Pk LLC bought the 18-acre property from Sears, Roebuck & Co. The deed was recorded Thursday. TF Orange Pk is led by Transform Dove Holdco LLC, whose address is the same as ESL Investments Inc. Bloomberg says ESL Investments was founded in 1988 and based in Bay Harbour, Michigan. Edward Scott Lampert is its chairman and CEO. The almost 200,000-squarefoot Orange Park Mall Sears store was built in 1975. The property includes an auto center. Transform Dove registered 11 LLCs with the state Feb. 14 for Sears properties in Florida. Among those are TF Jacksonville LLC. Sears bankruptcy
Orange Park Medical Center will build four floors above its emergency room and add 48 beds.
Baptist plans a $24 million emergency center with a helipad to serve growth in Southwest Jacksonville and Clay County.
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Fanatics approved to build-out satellite office Tenant improvements were approved for Fanatics, the global e-commerce company that sells licensed sports merchandise, to build-out a satellite office in Jacksonville, almost next door to its East Coast headquarters. The city issued a permit for Auld & White Constructors LLC to remodel 40,583 square feet of space for Fanatics at 8301 Cypress Plaza Drive, Building 5, in Cypress Business Center, at a cost of $1.81 million. Gresham Smith is the architect. Fanatics operates its East Coast headquarters nearby at 8100 Nations Way in Cypress Point Business Park.
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