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Web.com CEO expects new owner to stay the course CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Web.com Group Inc. spent the summer finalizing a $2.2 billion buyout agreement but that didn’t slow down the company’s other plans, like construction of a new 218,700-square-foot headquarters building on Jacksonville’s Southside. “The sixth floor is going up right as we speak,” CEO David Brown said during an interview Wednesday at the Atlantic Beach Country Club,
Downtown Investment Authority CEO will succeed Jerry Mallot at JAX Chamber.
the site of this month’s Web. com Tour Championship golf tournament. Affiliates of private equity firm Siris Capital Group LLC agreed to buy Web.com, a deal that is targeted to close in the Brown fourth quarter. Brown expects Siris to help the company continue with its growth, including plans to offer
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Wallace says he’ll keep up fight for jobs
JAX Chamber’s next economic-development leader assured the almost 570 people gathered Thursday to pay tribute to his predecessor that he will continue the quest to create jobs. Downtown Investment Authority CEO Aundra Wallace becomes president of JAXUSA Partnership Oct. Wallace 1. He succeeds Jerry Mallot, 70, who retired Saturday after 24 years of leading the chamber’s economic-development division. In his more than 20 years of economic development, Wallace said, there’s one constant. “People want the opportunity to earn meaningful, gainful employment so they can accomplish whatever it is that they want in their life,” he told the JAXUSA meeting at which Mallot made his farewell presentation.
Baptist MD Anderson Cancer Center officials Keith Tickell, vice president of strategic assets/real estate, and LeeAnn Mengel, administrator for oncology services, show off the lobby of the new center in San Marco in a media preview. The nine-story, $184 million facility features open spaces that take advantage of the natural light, as well as the work of local and national artists. It’s scheduled to open Tuesday. More photos at JaxDailyRecord.com.
“It’s easier to transform a company when you’re private than when you’re public,” CEO David Brown says of the impending buyout by Siris.
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‘Food desert’ contract awarded The city’s Professional Services Evaluation Committee selected T. Brown Consulting Group LLC to perform a Northwest Jacksonville Food Desert & Grocery Store Study. The city says Northwest Jacksonville is a “food desert,” an area where residents have limited places to buy fresh fruits, vegetables and other healthy food, and is seeking help to correct it. The contract is not to exceed $105,000, with a completion date of March 31. More at JaxDailyRecord.com
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