Daily Record Financial News &
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Vol. 105, No. 088 • One Section
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Walmart adds online order pickup areas
PICKUP AT WALMART The Walmart Supercenter at 8808 Beach Blvd. has six parking spots reseserved for customers picking up merchandise. For grocery items, customers can stay in their cars while Walmart workers bring out their orders.
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Retailer adding pickup stalls, merchandise storage and signage at several stores. Walmart Inc. is further preparing at least 10 Walmart Supercenters and Neighborhood Markets in Jacksonville
for online pickup of groceries and possibly merchandise. The retailer has been updating its services as it competes with Amazon. com Inc. and other competitors that offer consumer conveniences. The city approved or is reviewing renovation work that includes pickup services at Walmart Supercenters at 8808 Beach Blvd., 13490 Beach Blvd., 9890 Hutchinson Park Drive, 10991 San Jose Blvd., 7075 Collins Road and 10251 Shops Lane. It also is reviewing work for pickup at Neighborhood Markets at 6855 Wilson Blvd. and at 1650 San Pablo Road. In addition, the Walmart website shows two more Supercenters also are
providing pickup services. Some Supercenter renovations include overall remodeling throughout the stores. Walmart media contacts did not respond to an email or phone message to discuss the plans. The Walmart website shows that grocery pickup already is available at five Supercenters, comprising 8808 Beach Blvd. and the stores at Hutchinson Park Drive and Shops Lane as well as 6830 Normandy Blvd. and 12100 Lem Turner Road. For the pickup work, Walmart wants to renovate the space for pickup stall striping outside, grocery and merchandise storage, checkout and build-
ing signage. Plans show that for online grocery orders, customers would pull up to the designated parking stalls after their orders are placed. Walmart associates will be notified when the customer arrives and deliver the order to the customer at the car. Customers won’t need to leave their vehicles. Plans show that stores that offer general merchandise pickup will arrange for that to take place inside the store. Customers will check in and be notified their online merchandise — nongrocery — items are available for pickup. Mathis
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DIA to consider JU expansion, Jones Brothers building restoration
iFly Indoor Skydiving preparing for construction
University wants film program at WJCT; furniture store could become apartments.
City reviewing permits for site work at venue going in near Topgolf. By Karen Brune Mathis Editor
By David Cawton Staff Writer Jacksonville University intends to expand its Downtown presence by moving a film program to the WJCT station, while owners of the historic Jones Brothers Furniture Building want to restore it for apartments, retail and office use. The Downtown Investment Authority is scheduled to review both proposals Wednesday. Arlington-based JU wants to expand its Downtown campus by moving its Bachelor of Arts
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The Downtown historic Jones Brothers Furniture Building could be transformed into apartments, retail and office space.
in Film program to the WJCT television offices at 100 Festival Park Ave. near EverBank Field. The school set up its first Downtown programs at the SunTrust
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Tower. The school seeks a five-year, interest-free $100,000 loan DIA
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Foundation work is about to take off for the iFly Indoor Skydiving venue near St. Johns Town Center. The city is reviewing permits for site work and construction of the foundation and building on 1.14 acres at 10579 Brightman Blvd., south of Topgolf and west of Interstate 295. ARCO/Murray Construction Co. of Tampa is the contractor. Plans show the 5,000-squarefoot enclosed building will rise 59 feet and 6 inches that make way
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for the fans and tunnel that allow patrons to simulate skydiving. Sky Entertainment paid $738,644 for the site, which is next to a proposed Holiday Inn Express & Suites, on Jan. 10. Construction costs and the land purchase total almost $9 million. Managing Partner Chester Schwartz said in July he estimated the development cost at $10 million to $12 million. Sky Entertainment LLC of St. Augustine will develop the project. The architect is GMA Architects Inc. of St. Louis. Austin, Texas-based iFly calls itself “the experiential entertainment company that created modern indoor skydiving.” It developed technology that iFly continued on
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