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Mayo Clinic to build $233M proton beam therapy facility
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Collins Aerospace plant on way to Imeson
Company matches Project Turtle, which would hire more than 100 people and receive $1.64 million in city and state incentives.
equipment and proton beam will cost $211 million. Parking and walkways will cost $22 million. Mayo Clinic’s Proton Beam Therapy Program will be the third in Jacksonville, the most of any city in the United States. UF Health and the Ackerman Cancer Center also offer proton beam therapy. When the project is completed, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville will become the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Florida to offer proton therapy, Thielen said. Mayo Clinic is one of only two NCI Com-
Collins Aerospace Corp. appears to be on the brink of opening its marine composites manufacturing plant in North Jacksonville that could employ more than 100 people. The company will open the plant in a 140,400-square-foot building it will lease at 10531 Busch Drive N. in Imeson International Industrial Park. Collins Aerospace applied to the city for a certificate of use to operate the center. Building plans approved in January showed tenant improvements in two phases of offices and manufacturing space to make polyurethane parts for clients that include the U.S. Department of Defense. The company is the combined UTC Aerospace Systems and Rockwell Collins. Collins Aerospace did not respond to questions. Webb Southeast Corp. obtained a permit in January to
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An artist’s rendering of the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville’s planned $233 million proton beam therapy facility, which will be near the Mangurian Building that opened in 2018.
The facility will be Jacksonville’s third proton treatment facility, the most of any city in the U.S. BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
Mayo Clinic announced Monday it would construct a 140,000-square-foot, $233 million integrated oncology facility that will include proton beam therapy at its Jacksonville campus. Building design for the project will begin later this year, with construction to be completed by late 2022. The goal is by the end of 2023, the facility will be ready for patients. “This facility will give us the ability to offer our patients the full spectrum of cancer treatment options, including
chemotherapy, immunotherapy, CAR-T cell therapy (chimeric antigen receptor therapy T cell therapy), surgery, proton beam therapy, gamma knife radiosurgery and tra- Thielen ditional radiotherapy,” said Kent Thielen, CEO of Mayo Clinic in Florida. “It will also give patients access to proton beam therapy clinical trials offered through our National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center.” The building, advanced radiation
Zoning exception for Brewz The Jacksonville Planning Commission approved a zoning exception to allow Brewz at 2695 Post St. to serve beer and wine for on- and off-premise consumption. A companion waiver was approved to reduce the required minimum distance from Brewz to Riverside Baptist Church at 2650 Park St. from 1,500 feet to 868 feet. Brewz founder Brian Slucker purchased the former Dahlia’s Pour House in April. He owns two other Brewz locations in Atlantic Beach and Bartram Park.
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