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Ash Properties adds Exchange Building to Downtown holdings
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A Hyatt Place hotel is proposed Downtown along Independent Drive at Hogan Street.
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Downtown Hyatt Place hotel plans face first look
Proposed Brooklyn Residence Inn also will seek final approval from Downtown Development Review Board. BY DAVID CAWTON STAFF WRITER
deed was recorded Wednesday. Randall Whitfield, Ash Properties chief operating officer, confirmed the purchase Monday but did not Whitfield immediately provide more information. The seven-story, almost 35,000-square-foot vacant building, developed in 1930, sits on 0.15 acres
The Downtown Development Review Board will review a pair of hotel projects at its monthly meeting Aug. 30. It will be the first time the board has a chance to look at conceptual renderings for the Hyatt Place hotel proposed Downtown along Independent Drive at Hogan Street. The board meets 2 p.m. Aug. 30 in a first-floor conference room at City Hall at 117 W. Duval St. Mainstreet CV 76 S Laura St. LLC proposes a nine-story, 128room, 102,256-square-foot hotel for a 0.27-acre property also known as the Sister Cities Parcel. According to plans submitted Friday to the DDRB, the limited-service hotel will have a mix of double queen and single king rooms on seven floors. The main entrance would face
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SEE HYATT PLACE, PAGE 3
Photo by Karen Brune Mathis
BB&T Tower looms behind the Exchange Building, right, in Downtown Jacksonville. Ash Properties, which recently bought the BB&T Tower, paid $825,000 for the Exchange Building at 218 W. Adams St.
Company that recently bought the BB&T Tower paid $825,000 for property at 218 W. Adams St.
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Ash Properties already is adding to its Downtown holdings, less than three weeks after buying the BB&T Tower and its parking garage. Jacksonville-based Ash Properties bought the Exchange Building at 218 W. Adams St. on Aug. 9 for $825,000. The
Baptist’s San Marco cancer center plans September opening The new Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center building in San Marco expects to open and see its first patient Sept. 4, its medical director said Monday. Dr. Bill Putnam told the Meninak Club of Jacksonville the cancer center opened Oct. 1, 2015, in a Baptist Medical Center outpatient facility and broke ground for the nine-story expansion at 1301 Palm Ave. in June 2016.
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