Daily Record FINANCIAL NEWS &
FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2018
VOL. 105, NO. 115 • ONE SECTION
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Regency plans to start San Marco retail center, Publix within a year
Photo by Monty Zickuhr
East San Marco at Atlantic and Hendricks formerly was announced in 2006 with plans for a mixed-use development anchored by Publix. The project was derailed by the Great Recession, but the property owner now says it plans to build the shopping center starting next year.
Property owner Regency Centers plans to build retail center, forgo apartments. By Karen Brune Mathis Editor A year after a deal for apartments fell through, and 16 years after potential development first surfaced, it looks as if East San Marco will soon rise — with retail. This time, says the property owner, East San Marco at Hendricks Avenue and Atlantic Boulevard will be just Publix Super Markets Inc.
and other shops and restaurants. There will be no apartments on top, and it might not even be named East San Marco. “It’s going to be a terrific shopping center that’ll be very favorably received by the neighborhood and what the neighborhood needs,” said Regency Centers Corp. Chairman and CEO Martin E. “Hap” Stein. “It will be a very positive addition to a great neighborhood in the San Marco area,” Stein
said Thursday after the Regency Centers annual meeting of shareholders. He said construction should start within the year and be completed a year after that. East San Marco remains the name “for now,” he said. Stein said Jacksonville-based Regency Centers will develop, own and manage an estimated 50,000 square feet of retail space comprising EAST SAN MARCO
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JEA cooling towers to be imploded this summer Demolition permit issued to bring down landmark structures. By Scott Sailer Editorial Research Director Those two tall cooling towers in North Jacksonville will be imploded this summer. The city issued a permit for
Total Wrecking & Environmental LLC to implode the 464-foot-tall concrete cooling towers at the St. Johns River Power Park at 11201 New Berlin Road. Total Wrecking & Environmental is the contractor for the job, listed at a cost of $14.5 million. It did not provide details about the implosion. Photo by Scott Sailer
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The cooling towers at the St. Johns River Power Park at 11201 New Berlin Road will be imploded in June or July.
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