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IT’S NO FISH TALE

VyStar buying SunTrust Tower

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Harry Frisch built Beaver Street Fisheries into a $500 million business. Now he shares the lessons of his success.

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Credit union plans to move HQ and 700 employees Downtown. BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR

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VyStar Credit Union intends to buy the SunTrust Tower Downtown and move its headquarters and up to 700 employees into the 23-story building. When anchor tenant SunTrust’s lease expires in July 2019, Jacksonville-based VyStar intends to put its name on the building at 76 S. Laura St. Employees might start moving there within six months. VyStar President and CEO Brian Wolfburg said Wednesday the SEE VYSTAR, PAGE 9

Ash Properties winning bidder for BB&T Tower BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR Photo by Dede Smith

Harry Frisch, 94, is the chairman of Beaver Street Fisheries. The company, whose flagship brand is Sea Best, employs about 400 people and annually imports more than 100 million pounds of seafood. In the photo behind him, he is at the left next to his mother.

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arry Frisch intends to retire July 5, 2023, the day he turns 100. “I’m taking the day off,” states the chairman of Beaver Street Fisheries Inc., who turns 95 in four weeks and comes to work every weekday.

He aims to return the day after his “retirement” and thereafter. Born in Vienna, Austria, Hans “Harry” Frisch came to Jacksonville in 1953 and worked as an auto mechanic. He and his brother took over a fish market that his mother and stepfather bought in 1950. With just seven grades of education before he had to leave Austria when Hitler invaded, Frisch and his brother,

Alfred, built the fish business. Today, the enterprise imports, manufactures and distributes seafood products worldwide to wholesale distributors and retail stores. It employs about 400 people and counts annual sales of more than $500 million. SEE FRISCH, PAGE 8

Jacksonville-based Ash Properties won the bidding last week for the BB&T Tower Downtown and hopes to buy the property this summer and quickly start renovations. Randall Whitfield, COO of the commercial real estate developer, said Wednesday the tower’s 64 percent occupancy presents a “total upside” to attracting more tenants. “We’ve always been interested SEE ASH PROPERTIES, PAGE 9

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