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Term-limited City Council member says she wants to bring more housing Downtown. BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
Zillow’s analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data found the percentage of young adults aged 23 to 37 (roughly equivalent to the millennial generation) living with their mothers was 21.9% in 2017, up from 13% in 2005. Young adults in Jacksonville were less likely to live with mom than the rest of the country in 2005, at 10.3%. But the percentage grew to 21% in 2017,
Jacksonville City Council member Lori Boyer was selected as the Downtown Investment Authority’s next CEO. The DIA board’s unanimous decision Wednesday was delivered after three hours of public interviews at City Hall with Boyer and two other finalists for the job. Also interviewed was Gregory Flisram, senior Boyer vice president of the Economic Development Corp. of Kansas City and Kevin Hanna, a private developer and former New Orleans Redevelopment Authority real estate development director. Boyer will now enter a 30- to 60-day contract negotiation with the DIA board. Boyer, who is term-limited, will leave the City Council on June 30. She will replace interim CEO Brian Hughes, who has filled the position since October when CEO Aundra Wallace left to become president of JAXUSA Partnership, the economic development division of JAX Chamber. Hughes also is Mayor Lenny Curry’s chief of staff. Boyer’s selection came down to her knowledge of Downtown Jacksonville — legislation Boyer authored simplifying zoning and redrafting Downtown overlay
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The city is moving to tear down The Jacksonville Landing at 2 Independent Drive W. on the Downtown Northbank.
Sealed proposals are due June 14 for contractors who want to tear down and clear the site.
BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Two weeks after taking ownership of the riverfront Jacksonville Landing, the city issued a bid notice Tuesday to tear it down. The city posted an invitation to bid to contractors interested in “The Jacksonville Landing
Demolition.” Sealed bids are due by 2 p.m. June 14 to the city procurement division on the first floor of the Ed Ball Building at 214 N. Hogan St. A mandatory prebid conference is scheduled at 10 a.m. May 23 in the eighth-floor conference room at the Ed Ball Building. Bid documents are $40.
“Work consists of furnishing all labor, materials, equipment & performing all operations necessary for the demolition of the Jacksonville Landing,” says the notice. “The work includes, but is not limited to the complete demolition, debris removal, erosion SEE LANDING, PAGE 3
Millennials living with mom up 13% since 2005 Zillow economist blames the trend on “rising housing costs and deteriorating affordability.”
BY MARK BASCH CONTRIBUTING WRITER
If you’re a millennial, hopefully you showed your appreciation for mom last weekend. According to real estate search and data firm Zillow Group Inc., more of you are living with mom these days. Anyone born between 1981 and 1996 is considered part of the millennial generation.
Hillwood plans Cecil Commerce Center warehouse AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center master developer Hillwood is proposing another speculative warehouse. Dallas-based Hillwood proposes the 450,000-square-foot Building A-2 in the 13000 block of 103rd Street in the Westside business park owned by the city. The building site is next to the Wayfair distribution center under development. A site plan shows the structure backs up to the General Electric Oil & Gas valve manufacturing plant. Hillwood Senior Vice President Dan Tatsch said construction of the spec building will depend on how quickly other warehouses lease around Northeast Florida.
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