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Ulta Beauty confirms Jacksonville facility
Company CEO says the e-commerce fulfillment center will open in 2020.
tion and expansion to take up to five years and will seek city approvals and landlease amendments this spring. It will remain open during construction. MOSH announced that the changes are expected to more than double the number of people it can serve annually from 229,239 in 2017 to an estimated 468,000 by 2023. It also said the project would position the museum for public use for lifelong learning and experiential education. In an interview Thursday, MOSH President Maria Hane and board of trustees Chair Parvez Ahmed said the museum will increase its outreach in science, technology, engineering and math. The improvements also will increase
Ulta Beauty Inc. confirmed Thursday that it will open a fulfillment center in Jacksonville in 2020. Mary Dillon, CEO of the Bolingbrook, Illinois-based beauty products retailer, announced the center – its second fast fulfillment center to serve its e-commerce business – during its conference call Thursday afternoon with analysts and investors to discuss Ulta Beauty’s fourth-quarter and annual financial results. A second fast fulfillment center “is in the works and expected to open in the summer of 2020 in Jacksonville, Florida,” she said. The first will open in a remodeled Ulta distribution center in Romeoville, Illinois, she announced. Fast fulfillment centers serve only e-commerce orders. Dillon said the company is increasing its network capacity for two-day e-commerce shipping. Ulta previously said it would open its first fast fulfillment center in the Southeast but said
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The extensive renovation planned at the Museum of Science & History includes a redesigned entrance that will face the St. Johns River on the Downtown Southbank.
The Southbank museum wants to raise up to $25 million from private sources. BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
The Museum of Science & History intends to renovate and expand its Downtown Southbank campus and increase its ability to serve the community. It launched an $80 million campaign, “MOSH 2.0: Expanding the Capacity to Inspire Innovation,” in January to raise private and public funding for the project at 1025 Museum Circle, near Friendship Park. Of that total, MOSH intends to seek at
least $20 million from individuals, businesses, corporations, foundations and other community supporters. Public funding comprises local, state and federal sources. MOSH said the cost of MOSH 2.0 could be up to $90 million, with up to $25 million from private contributions. It established the Nucleus Fund for the campaign’s startup and administrative costs, projected at $2 million that is included in the $25 million in private contributions. The MOSH board of trustees financially supported the fund “with full participation in pledge commitments,” MOSH announced Friday. MOSH is selling naming rights to all or parts of the project. The organization expects the renova-
Cinemark work to start this fall Sleiman Enterprises intends to break ground in September for a 14-screen Cinemark Holdings Inc. theater at northwest Kernan and Atlantic boulevards in the Atlantic North shopping center. Cinemark expects to open the 1,300-seat theater in summer 2020.
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