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THE MATHIS REPORT
State Farm closing Jacksonville facility
Roosevelt Square revamp Daily Record may include apartments JACKSONVILLE
600 people work at the Baymeadows Way office that does billing, customer service.
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DO SIGNS REVEAL WHAT’S TO COME?
Signs at the Roosevelt Square shopping center display renderings with the property named Ortega Park. They show what appears to be an apartment building near the former Belk store site and a retail plaza called Ortega Alley near what is now Metro Diner,
BY MARK BASCH CONTRIBUTING WRITER
JACKSONVILLE
Photos by Karen Brune Mathis
Redeveloped shopping center also would get new name.
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Roosevelt Square’s third redevelopment under current ownership not only will result in a new look for the shopping center but also a new name – Ortega Park – and a new use – the addition of apartments. Atlanta-based Dewberry Capital Corp. posted signs around the 29-acre Roosevelt Boulevard shopping center that show the renderings. The biggest change is what appears to be an apartment complex on the south end of the property near the vacant site where the Belk store was demolished.
“Coming soon: Ortega Park” says one sign, which also shows the logo for “Dewberry Living.” Another sign posted near Metro Diner shows what appears to be a retail plaza called “Ortega Alley.” “All shops open during construction,” say all the signs. The renderings include existing anchors Stein Mart and Publix Super Markets Inc. as well as new tenant Ulta Beauty, which is under construction next to Stein Mart. SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
State Farm, which has been downsizing its Jacksonville operations center for the past four years, said Wednesday it will close the facility at 8001 Baymeadows Way next year. The insurance company currently employs 600 people who work in billing and customer service, State Farm spokeswoman Michal Brower said. Brower had said in early 2014 the com- Brower pany employed 1,160 at the site before it began downsizing. Some of the work from the Jacksonville office will be moved to State Farm’s headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois, and at other large operations centers in Atlanta, Dallas and Phoenix. State Farm said it will be working to assist employees who are being displaced in Jacksonville, but Brower could not say if any of them will be offered positions in the other facilities. She also could not say exactly when the company will shut down operations in Jacksonville, only that it is expected to be sometime in 2019. State Farm said in a news release the closure is part of a process as it adapts to “the rapidly changing needs and expectations of our customers” and tries to “optimize available space in our current facilities.”
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ParkerVision cutting jobs A week after reporting disappointing quarterly financial results, Jacksonville-based ParkerVision Inc. said Thursday it is closing its second office in Lake Mary and cutting 30 jobs. The company said in its annual report that it had 45 full-time and five part-time employees at the end of 2017. CEO Jeff Parker and three other executives will also reduce their base salaries by at least 20 percent. Parker’s base salary was $325,000 last year. More at JaxDailyRecord.com
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