Daily Record Financial News &
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Vol. 105, No. 142 • One Section
New kosher restaurant finds a fit in urban core
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Woody’s taking spot of Sticky Fingers Barbecue restaurant to employ 80 people in Baymeadows. By Karen Brune Mathis Editor Woody’s Bar-B-Q is taking over the former Sticky Fingers Ribhouse in Baymeadows. Woody’s franchise owner Jack Dunsmoor said Monday the restaurant is scheduled to open June 18 and employ 80 people. “It’s a great area for growth and development,” Dunsmoor said. Job openings on Craigslist seek employees for all positions, including cooks, servers, bartenders, cashiers and dishwashers at the location. The city approved three sign permits by Custom Graphics & Sign Design for Woody’s at 8129 Woody’s
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Ricki Ben Simon opened Gili’s Kitchen at 126 W. Adams St. Downtown on April 13. The restaurant features kosher preparation of international and American dishes.
Ricki Ben Simon said she had long wanted to open a restaurant based on food prepared in the kosher tradition. Gili’s Kitchen Catering and Bakery at 126 W. Adams St. in Downtown Jacksonville is the embodiment of Ben Simon’s objective. The restaurant offers all kosher food and features international cuisine mixed with some Americana. “We want as many customers as possible,” Ben Simon said. “We are the kosher restaurant and the Jewish community is pretty big. So, there was a need for that.” Ben Simon, who practices Orthodox Judaism, said she and her husband, Yehuda Ben Simon,
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considered opening the restaurant along San Jose Boulevard near the Jewish Community Alliance and the Jacksonville Jewish Center. But she said they couldn’t quite pinpoint the right building. Then Downtown came into view. Ben Simon, who lives in Ponte Vedra Beach, said she initially was hesitant to locate in Jacksonville’s urban core. She admitted she had her doubts. Then she realized more residential apartments and homes were being developed Downtown and the business crowd for lunch service couldn’t be ignored. Gili’s Kitchen opened April 13. “We have the lunchtime rush here. We have many people from the offices,” Ben Simon said.
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Foundation work to begin at St. Vincent’s Heart and vascular pavilion in Riverside projected to open in 2019.
Gili’s Kitchen Catering and Bakery offers American and international cuisine in location that surprised owner. By Drew Dixon Contributing Writer
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Ricki Ben Simon, who practices Orthodox Judaism, oversees the accuracy of an order in the kitchen of her new restaurant.
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St. Vincent’s HealthCare will soon lay the foundation for its riverfront heart and vascular pavilion in Riverside. The city is reviewing a permit application for The Haskell Co. to put in the foundation at a project cost of $1.85 million for the fourstory tower at 1 Shircliff Way off Riverside Avenue. The $55 million riverfront project is designed at 82,863 square feet, a spokesman said previously. It will be developed where Seton Hall was demolished. St. Vincent’s HealthCare is part of Ascension Jacksonville. It announced in November it would break ground this summer with a projected opening in fall 2019. The pavilion will include 30 medical and surgical rooms and 30 intensive care rooms. It primarily will be used for heart and Mathis
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