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Amazon.com Inc. continues its Jacksonville expansion with a 477,946-square-foot package delivery hub in North Jacksonville that is being built-out for $15 million. It is the Seattle-based online retailer’s ninth identified facility in Northeast Florida. The city issued a permit Oct. 13 for Threecore LLC in Sarasota to build-out the interior of a new warehouse at 250 Busch Drive E. in Imeson International Industrial Park. Baker Barrios Architects Inc. of Orlando is the architect. Plans show the project is an Amazon.com package delivery service with employees in two shifts – days and evenings – and a possible third seasonal shift. No job count was stated. It is labeled DJX3, an Amazon code. Packages arriving at the facility will be labeled for shipping within local neighborhoods and surrounding areas by vans. The city approved construction of the shell building in May 2019 for Webb Southeast Construction Corp. to build the distribution center on 30.69 acres at a construction cost of almost $13.7 million. The developer was Orlando-based Industrial Park Investments Inc. JEA and city Planning Department documents show the property will have 102 loading bays, 337 parking spaces and 133 spaces for trailer parking.
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Darrin Mueller is operations center director at the Bacardi Bottling Corp. plant at 12200 N. Main St. in North Jacksonville. He began the role in June.
The operations director of the Jacksonville plant is responsible for the bottling and distribution of all the Bacardi rum sold in the U.S. and globally.
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s Darrin Mueller passed through the Bacardi Bottling Corp. plant Sept. 24, he greeted employees as thousands of bottles raced around the facility. They start as empty glass containers, then are filled with Bacardi rum, capped and boxed into cases. Mueller, 44, a five-year Bacardi employee, started in the plant’s top position in June. He
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calls it his dream job, something he’s wanted since starting in the industry more than 20 years ago. He is responsible for the bottling and distribution of about 8.6 million cases of Bacardi rum a year, along with leading 200 employees at the company’s 12200 N. Main St. facility in North Jacksonville. “I knew when I started in manufacturing and having the opportunity to work with senior SEE MUELLER, PAGE 6
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Repairs planned for Downtown Central Fire Station Micheladas to West Jacksonville: Tenant renovations are in review for Micheladas Restaurant at 5353 Firestone Road. Rescue Roofing & Construction LLC is shown as the contractor for the 1,796-square-foot buildout at a cost of $30,000.
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Paul and Farley Grainger are beginning to prepare the 117-year-old Central Fire Station building Downtown for tenants. “We just wanted to start the process,” said Paul Grainger, a partner with his father, Farley Grainger, in Iconic Real Estate Investments LLC. They submitted documents to the city for a certificate of appropriateness for exterior repairs. Robbins Design Studio is the applicant and agent for the project. The Jacksonville Planning and Development Department staff approved the certificate with conditions. The 10,000-square-foot building is designated historic. The former fire station is at 39 E. Adams St. at northwest Adams and Ocean streets. The exterior repairs will include replacement of the rollup doors, new exterior personnel doors, stucco and structural repairs, window replacement, new exterior decorative lighting fixtures and new roofing. The interior scope will provide an interior lift for accessibility and new secondary egress stairs for a future tenant. The interior will be turned into shell space for future tenants. On Oct. 9, Paul Grainger cited new incentives from the Downtown Investment Authority as an opportunity to contribute to the city’s historic inventory. He said he will meet with DIA to make sure his group is interpreting the rules for historic work. Grainger said the top floor
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Iconic Real Estate Investments LLC, owner of the Central Fire Station building Downtown at 39 E. Adams St., plans to begin exterior repairs on the 117-year-old structure.
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has potential for creative office use and he has been talking with potential tenants. He said the building could be leased to a single tenant or to single users on each floor. The rollup door on the first floor would be conducive for a coffee shop or cafe, he said. Grainger said exterior work probably will start in a few months. He did not have an investment estimate, saying he was receiving updated costs. After 5½ years of owning the Central Fire Station building, John VanPelt sold the historic Downtown property in June 2019 for $700,000 to Iconic Real Estate Investments. VanPelt paid $600,000 for it in January 2014 and lived there with his teenage son. The fire station, built in 1903, was one of the first new structures after the 1901 fire that destroyed Downtown. The building is at the corner of two major Downtown thoroughfares, at the end of a block anchored by the Burrito Gallery and Indochine restaurants. Across Adams Street sits the former Haydon Burns Public Library that was renovated into the Jessie Ball duPont Center for nonprofits. The Graingers said when they bought it that they were talking to tenants but the structure has deferred maintenance.
The fire station’s first floor is about 5,000 square feet of garage space, while the second floor, with views of Downtown, is about the same size and has been used as living quarters. Grainger said upon buying the building that his group would talk to the city’s historic planners about preservation and facade improvements. Iconic has been active Downtown. On Sept. 30, Iconic Real Estate Investments sold the George Doro Fixture Co. property at 102 A Philip Randolph Blvd. to Rise: A Real Estate Company, for $5.2 million. Rise, based in Valdosta, Georgia, plans apartments.
Permits in review for Lane Industrial Park Lane Industrial Park is taking shape in northwest Jacksonville. Foresight Construction Group Inc. of Jacksonville is the contractor for the proposed $15.71 million construction project at 2282 Lane Ave. N. Kasper Architects is the architect for the two industrial buildings that total 322,670 square feet of warehouse space. The city is reviewing building permit applications. Building 100 comprises 161,335 square feet with office space totaling $9.16 million. Building 200 also is shown at 161,335 square feet at a cost of $6.55 million. Colliers International Executive Director Guy Preston and Senior Associate Seda Preston said in July they expect groundbreaking in October.
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The Preston team is the leasing agent for the property at northwest West 12th Street and Lane Avenue North. The team expects the buildings to be ready for occupancy in August. A site brochure says the project offers multitenant industrial warehouse buildings that can offer spaces from 20,000 square feet to the entire structure. The brochure says there are dock-high doors, a shared concrete truck court, and parking expandable to 468 autos. Pan American Companies is listed as the developer. Seda Preston said previously Pan American expects to buy the property by year-end. Regulatory agencies have been reviewing plans for the 23.85-acre project. Jax Industrial One Ltd. of Coral Gables is shown as the developer. Pan American Equity Partners 3 LLC is its general partner. State records show that Pan American Equity Partners 3’s director is former Florida Lt. Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera. Civil engineering firm GAI Consultants Inc. prepared plans for Pan American Companies of Coral Gables, at the same address as Jax Industrial One. Legacy Industries of Jax LLC is the land owner. Led by managing member Deno Hicks, it paid $300,000 for the property in April 2018.
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Telescope Health CEO: ‘Telemedicine is here to stay’
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As health systems add more telehealth capabilities, CEO Matthew Rill says the hospital environment could change forever. The longer the pandemic continues, the more likely it is that telemedicine permanently will impact emergency room volumes and how hospitals operate, said Telescope Health CEO and co-founder Matthew Rill. For two months following the start of COVID-19 shutdowns, Rill said Telescope Health, a Jacksonville-based telemedicine provider, grew from seeing about 15 patients a day to 300 a day. Its volume has remained higher than usual, and now, Rill said Telescope Health is seeing a higher percentage of non-COVID patients. Telescope began partnering with the city of Jacksonville in March to provide COVID-19 testing.
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Telescope Health CEO and co-founder Matthew Rill says many conditions can be treated via telemedicine, and the system can treat more patients with fewer resources.
“People were fearful during the spring and not coming into traditional brick-and-mortar spots,” he said. “I think that the hospitals have done a great job of responding to the threat, so people are returning back to brick-and-mortar spaces. But at the same time, I think there’s been a lot of folks who have enjoyed this new access to
health care.” At UF Health Jacksonville, ER volumes hit their lowest points in May. The Downtown hospital’s ER volume was down 28% from May 2019 and UF Health North’s was down about the same at 27%. Around 20% of visits at local health systems still are via telemedicine, Rill said. He
doesn’t expect hospitals to stop providing it, but rather expand their virtual offerings. “I think all health systems will be looking for ways to expand their network via telemedicine,” he said. Rill started Telescope Health in May 2019 from Emergency Resources Group, a Jacksonville-based company that provides emergency room services for Baptist Health and Flagler Hospital. Rill is an emergency physician. The goal was to provide a more accessible and affordable health care option. “We were looking at the future of medicine and could see that the landscape for emergency medicine was changing, and we knew that it would be important to not only care for people in the hospital but provide services outside the hospital,” Rill said. Most conditions can be treated in some way through telemedicine, he said. For ailments that would typically require an ER visit, telemedicine can speed up the process once the patient arrives at the hospital or eliminate the need for a trip. Rill said Telescope Health treats stroke and heart attack patients by helping them call 911 and then coordinating with the ER team to increase efficiency. With fewer in-person visits at ERs, health systems would need less physical space for hospitals and ERs in the future. “So many conditions can
be started or managed via telemedicine and we use the brick-and-mortar space for important physical exams that need to be done in person or testing that needs to be done in person,” Rill said. Telehealth visits also can reduce chronically ill patients’ hospital visits. A doctor can prescribe a medication virtually, and schedule more frequent virtual follow-up appointments to make adjustments to a patient’s care plan. When health systems expand their telehealth usage, they’re able to treat more patients with fewer resources. “Now you can make microadjustments to improve their health with very little increased cost to anyone,” he said. The average cost of ER visits in 2017 was $1,389, according to the Health Cost Institute. Telescope Health charges $69 a visit. The only issue is that some insurance companies don’t cover telehealth visits, but Rill said he does not think that’s far away. “It will only work longterm if the reimbursement structures catch up to support it,” he said. “It’s better for the patient, it’s better for the health system, it’s better for the insurance companies.” “I think telemedicine is here to stay,” he said. KGARWOOD@ JAXDAILYRECORD.COM (904) 356-2466
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Here are the top 10 commercial real estate sales in Northeast Florida, comprising Clay, Duval and St. Johns counties. The sales were recorded Oct. 5-11.
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$10,500,000
$7,719,000
$5,181,508
$4,300,000
$4,200,000
4653 U.S. 17, Fleming Island
6561 San Juan Ave., Jacksonville
Sapphire Lane, St. Augustine
4843 Victor St., Jacksonville
311 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park
Type: Extra Space Storage Parcel size: 3.82 acres Building size: Not available Buyer: ESS Storage Acquisition Thirty One LLC Seller: Fleming Property Holdings LLC
Type: Noble House assisted living Parcel size: 2.17 acres Building size: Three buildings totaling 45,000 square feet Buyer: Noble House Senior Living LLC Seller: Noble House Retirement of Jacksonville LLC Previous sale: $1,410,000 in 2014
Type: 20 single-family for-rent homes in Shearwater Phase 2C Parcel size: Not available Building size: Not available Buyer: SW Jax SFR Owner LLC Seller: Dream Finders Homes LLC
Type: Warehouse Parcel size: 3.87 acres Building size: Two buildings totaling 123,130 square feet Buyer: Levin Corp. Seller: Jacksonville ECommerce Properties LLC
Type: Shopping center Parcel size: 8.09 acres Building size: 88,450 square feet Buyer: Blanding Plaza LLC Seller: Orange Blanding LLC Previous sale: $4,600,000 in 2014
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$4,015,000
$3,987,512
$3,000,000
$2,650,302
$2,328,450
4297 Oldfield Crossing Drive, Jacksonville
Old Kings, Acree and Plummer roads, Jacksonville
St. Augustine
Boylston and Appleton courts, St. Augustine
Aralia Lane, Jacksonville
Type: Walgreens Parcel size: 1.75 acres Buyer: Cardinal Green Investments LLC Seller: Surfcomber Jacksonville Associates LLC Previous sale: $2,905,000 in 1997
Type: Timberland Parcel size: 1,543.63 acres Buyer: H&W Timber LLC Seller: Farm Credit of Florida ACA
Type: 10 single-family forrent homes in Shearwater Phase 2C Parcel size: Not available Building size: Not available Buyer: SW Jax SFR Owner LLC Seller: AM Owner VII LLC
Type: 57 residential lots in Aralia Place Parcel size: Not available Buyer: D.R. Horton Inc., Jacksonville Seller: CLDG Aralia LLC
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Extra Space Storage at 4653 U.S. 17 in Fleming Island was sold for $10.5 million. The buyer was ESS Storage Acquisition Thirty One LLC.
Type: Undeveloped commercial shopping center Parcel size: 32.85 acres Buyer: 207 Development LLC Seller: Benchip LLP
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Cases of Barcardi rum are moved along the conveyor system. The plant is on pace to ship more than 9 million cases in 2020. Don Facundo Bacardi Masso founded Bacardi in 1862 in Cuba. The company says the founder’s wife, Dona Amalia, noticed a colony of fruit bats hanging in the rafters of the distillery and suggested adopting the bat as the symbol of Bacardi rum. The rum is now distilled in Puerto Rico and bottled in Jacksonville.
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managers that is something that I wanted to do,” he said. “How I was going to get there was always a mystery.” He started as a summer employee at Anheuser-Bush in Colorado, working part-time while in college at the University of Northern Colorado. He took on more hours, eventually becoming an intern. While he was studying mass communication, Mueller said his work in the beverage industry intrigued him. “I thought, wow, this is a lot of fun,” he said. “It’s very competitive, it’s a product that millions of people enjoy, and it’s just something grandiose to be a part of. And so, I wanted to be a part of it.” After graduating, he moved to Jacksonville with his wife and started a job at Anheuser-Busch in Jacksonville. He held manufacturing roles at Metal Container Corp. in Jacksonville and Georgia-Pacific in Palatka. Metal Container Corp. manufactures aluminum cans and bottles for Anheuser-Busch. He left Metal Container Corp. several years after InBev acquired AnheuserBusch in 2008. In 2015, he joined Bacardi as a senior bottling operations manager. A year later, he was promoted to manufacturing director. Now, as director of the operations center, his responsibilities at the plant
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Since Mueller took the lead role at Bacardi in June, the plant has been busy, he said. Although COVID-19 had an adverse effect on most industries, Bacardi’s U.S. sales have been on the rise. The Jacksonville Bacardi plant ships out more than 8.6 million cases of rum each year. Mueller said they are on track to exceed that by almost 1 million cases in 2020. Of that, 95% is shipped domestically. “What we’re seeing is a vast shift in our forecasts, and that’s really where a lot of our efforts have been focused,” he said. “One of the things that we don’t want to have happen is to not be able to supply our customers and our consumers.” To respond to the increase in demand, and to reduce costs and increase safety, the plant is installing a $6 million upgrade to its packing equipment. The first phase began in July. The second phase is set to begin in December and be completed in March. Before the installation of the machine, it took five pieces of equipment to build a box, pack the bottles and complete the case. Now, that can be done with one machine, Mueller said. There also were issues with bottles breaking in transit to the retailers. Mueller said that the boxes made from the new system are much stronger and can prevent breakage. Mueller said he also is seeing a slight change in the popularity of Bacardi’s products. The ready-to-drink category is growing in the U.S. and Canada. Bacardi sells its lime and soda, limon and lemonade and rum punch in cans. About 80% of what the Jacksonville plant bottles is Bacardi Superior rum, which comes in white, gold, black and spiced varieties. About 15% of its vol-
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These are the largest commercial building permits by job cost issued Oct. 13 by the city of Jacksonville.
Jacksonville Housing Authority, 11815 Alden Road, contractor is Xeye Inc., 13 permits for siding replacement with cementitious material at Carrington Place apartments, $50,515. INDUSTRIAL Amazon, 250 Busch Drive E., contractor is Threecore LLC, 477,946 square feet, tenant build-out, $15 million. SIGNS
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Darrin Mueller, second from left, leads 200 workers at the Jacksonville Bacardi plant.
ume is its limon-flavored rum, which is a blend of lemon, lime and grapefruit. Mueller said Bacardi covers the rum sector well. His personal favorite is the Bacardi Reserva Ocho, an eight-year aged gold rum. “Quite honestly, there’s not much that I don’t like,” Mueller said. “That’s part of having the luck of this dream job, you get the opportunities to really taste a lot of great spirits. Clearly, rum is one of my favorite spirits.” Lake Ray, president of the First Coast Manufacturers Association, said he has met with Mueller several times since he started as director. “He’s very open-minded about his management, he’s got a number of years of experience and he’s used those years of experience to understand how to bring a team of people together,” Ray said. As the leader of the Jacksonville plant,
Mueller wants his facility to be wellknown, both in the community and around the world. During the pandemic, Bacardi produced 120,000 bottles of hand sanitizer to donate to first responders in every county in Florida. Mueller said the facility also was recognized for its environmental conservation efforts. A team of employees volunteer to plant and maintain 21 acres of native plants and wildflowers at plant’s North Jacksonville campus. Bacardi employees help with a bat and Eastern Bluebird conservation program on campus as well. “We want to be that center of excellence,” Mueller said. “We have the right talent in place.”
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The cancellation of clinics and other events is impacting local legal aid providers. In a year when legal practices are limited because of COVID-19, slightly more lawyers reported providing pro bono services in 2019-20 than the previous year, although the amount of assistance declined, reports The Florida Bar. According to figures provided to the Pro Bono Legal Services Committee on Oct. 7 during the Bar’s fall meeting, 40,344 lawyers reported individually donating 1.293 million hours of pro bono work in the 2019-20 Bar year. Another 643 provided 19,531 hours through law firm pro bono plans. That compares with 40,002 lawyers who did 1.6 million hours of individual pro bono work and 577 who did 24,149 hours through law firm plans in 2018-19. Another 24,368 attorneys
Missy Davenport, pro bono director at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, said financial contributions to the organization are lower than last year as events promoting donations have been canceled.
reported donating almost $6.4 million to legal aid programs in 2019-20, compared with 22,228 lawyers who donated $6.2 million the previous year. Local legal aid providers say the state statistics mirror what’s happening in Northeast Florida from consequences of COVID-19 shutdowns and social distancing. “Our numbers are lower because so many of our events have been canceled,” said Missy Davenport, pro bono director at Jacksonville Area Legal Aid. Before COVID-19, JALA hosted weekly in-person legal clinics at its office Downtown and at senior centers and other facilities, connecting volunteer attorneys with people who need help. With the office closed to the public and JALA attorneys mostly working remotely, only a few in-person appointments are available each week, Dav-
enport said. “We’re making the transition to virtual with telephone consultations and Zoom clinics,” she said. Financial contributions to JALA are lower than last year because events promoting donations have been canceled, Davenport said. The loss of personal contact hasn’t reduced the public’s demand for civil legal aid, however. “We have seen an increased need for bankruptcy, foreclosure and eviction defense. This makes sense because the Florida eviction moratorium is lifted, people have been out of work, temporary furloughs are becoming permanent layoffs and people have been unable to pay bills for several months,” said Sarah Sullivan, pro bono director at Three Rivers Legal Services in Jacksonville. “Our pro bono attorneys have been especially engaged, knowing all of the legal turmoil after several months of decline due to the pandemic. They have reached out and raised their hands to help, but we always need more volunteers,” Sullivan said. Visit jaxlegalaid.org or trls. org for more information or to donate.
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education lecture to our alumni and friends at Jacksonville University. Her lecture was on the Thursday before the 2016 presidential election. Barrett discussed different judicial philosophies and the candidates who might be appointed to the federal courts under a Hillary Clinton administration. She also touched on who might be appointed should Trump, the underdog Republican nominee, somehow prevail. It is inconceivable to me – and probably to Barrett – that just a few months after that lecture at JU and Trump’s election she would be nominated and confirmed by the Senate to serve as a judge on the federal 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. After her confirmation, Trump amended his list of candidates he would consider appointing to the Supreme Court to include Barrett. He considered her as a finalist for the highest court in 2018 when Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy retired. I am proud of my former professor and I think we are lucky that Barrett is willing to answer the call to serve as a Supreme Court justice. She will faithfully adhere to her oath and objectively apply the law. Her self-described judicial philosophy is of the originalist and textualist origin. While U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and others are vilifying her for being “bad” for health care, women’s rights, LGBTQ rights, etc., I believe Barrett views her limited role as a judge to exclude policymaking. Her decisions will be based on where the law takes her without regard for whether she personally agrees or disagrees with the result. Many of us feel strongly about controversial issues. Barrett has a threeyear record on the federal appellate court, demonstrating that she objectively adjudicates the issues presented to her. Barrett should be given the same benefit of the doubt that Justice Ginsburg was given in 1993 during her confirmation hearings. Assuming she is confirmed by the Senate, I have no doubt historians will look at Barrett’s time on the court with as much acclaim as they do Justice Ginsburg’s. PATRICK KILBANE IS DIRECTOR OF THE DIVORCE ADVISORY GROUP AND GENERAL COUNSEL AT ULLMANN WEALTH PARTNERS, CHAIR OF THE JACKSONVILLE AVIATION AUTHORITY BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND A MEMBER OF THE 4TH CIRCUIT JUDICIAL NOMINATING COMMISSION.
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U.S. contact lens sales are strong but pandemic delays hurt sales of its vision surgery products. Johnson & Johnson said sales at its Jacksonville-based Vision Care unit dropped in the third quarter, with sales gains in U.S. contact lenses offset by declines in international sales and vision surgeries. Total Vision Care sales fell 9.4% in the quarter to $1.08 billion. That was mainly caused by a 16.3% drop in sales of vision surgery products. Johnson & Johnson said deferral of surgeries because of the COVID-19 pandemic is causing sales declines throughout its medical device business, which fell by an adjusted 3.3%. U.S. sales of Acuvue contact lenses made in Jacksonville jumped 10.9% to $375 million in the quarter, but with a big drop in international sales, total contact lens sales fell 7.1% to $830 million. Chris DelOrefice, vice president of investor relations, said in Johnson & Johnson’s quarterly conference call the U.S. sales gain resulted from restocking in the quarter. The company expects
stocks of contact lenses to return to more normalized levels in the fourth quarter. DelOrefice said the company is optimistic about new products as business returns to normal. “We continue to advance our contact lens pipeline with the world’s first and only drug-releasing contact lens for patients with allergic eye itch having received approval from Health Canada,” he said. DelOrefice also said the company expects better results throughout the medical device segment as surgical procedures resume. “Overall, we saw more stable results in total across each month this quarter,” he said. New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson said total global sales rose 1.7% in the quarter to $21.1 billion. Adjusted earnings of $2.20 a share were 8 DelOrefice cents higher than the third quarter of 2019, and were 21 cents higher than the consensus forecast of analysts, according to Zacks Investment Research. Despite the earnings beating forecasts, Johnson & Johnson’s stock fell $2.84 to $149 when the market opened Oct. 13 after the earnings report. Before releasing its earnings, Johnson & Johnson said it had to pause clinical trials of its COVID-19 vaccine because of illness in a trial participant.
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“The successful rollout of curbside delivery and Front Porch outdoor dining, as well as the aggressive repositioning of the retail offering to support current nesting trends, whereby consumers are spending on decorating their homes during the pandemic, are all examples of the aggressive actions taken to help the Cracker Barrel brand weather the current environment,” he wrote. Brooks is optimistic about the company’s Maple Street Biscuit Company subsidiary. Cracker Barrel acquired the restaurant chain founded in Jacksonville a year ago. “Cracker Barrel’s second brand, Maple Street Biscuit Company, has performed admirably during the pandemic, and is positioned to become the next growth vehicle for the company,” he said. “The existing base of 35 units was tracking at $1 million-plus average unit volumes and greater than 17% restaurant-level operating margins prepandemic.” Cracker Barrel intends to open 15 new Maple Street restaurants in this fiscal year. “The openings will be focused on infill locations where the brand enjoys existing awareness with consumers,” Brooks said.
FIS promotes Gileadi to chief operating officer Fidelity National Information Services Inc., or FIS, said in an SEC filing last week that Ido Gileadi was promoted to chief operating officer. Gileadi joined Jacksonville-based FIS as chief information officer in 2014. Before that, he was a senior partner at The Capital Markets Company, or Capco, which was acquired by FIS and became a subsidiary of the company in 2010.
CSX adds new director CSX Corp. last week said retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick has been appointed to its board of directors. Bostick fills an opening created when Pamela Carter retired in May for personal reasons after 10 years on the board. The Jacksonvillebased railroad company added former AK Steel Holding Corp. CEO James Wainscott to its board in July, but said that appointBostick ment filled a potential vacancy of an unnamed director who is contemplating retirement next year. Bostick’s appointment gives CSX 12 directors. Bostick spent 38 years in the Army and served as the Chief of Engineers and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. After retiring from the military, Bostick became chief operating officer of Intrexon Corp. in 2017. He left Intrexon in February after that company restructured into a new company called Precigen Inc.
Eqip acquired by Swedish company Stockholm-based Mentice AB said last week it agreed to buy the assets of Jacksonville-based Eqip Inc., a health care IT company. Mentice, which is publicly traded on the Nasdaq Stockholm exchange, provides software and hardware simulation solutions for cardiovascular therapies. Eqip offers a product that allows doctors to record intervention procedure data, Mentice said. The acquisition expands the company’s portfolio of cloud solutions, it said. Terms of the deal were not announced. MBASCH@JAXDAILYRECORD.COM
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Here are the top 10 single-family residential real estate sales in Northeast Florida, comprising Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties. The sales were recorded Oct. 5-11.
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$1,425,000
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3 S. Roscoe Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach
141 Crane Island Drive, Fernandina Beach
Type: Single-family Lot size: 1.15 acres House size: 2,117 square feet Buyer: William J. and Bonnie B. Donovan Seller: John F. and Celeste A. Burger
Type: Single-family lot Lot size: 0.67 acres Buyer: Rea Family Home Revocable Trust Seller: The Range at Crane Island LLC
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$1,356,500 134 Pelican Reef Drive, St. Augustine
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$2,800,000
Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.57 acres House size: 3,775 square feet Buyer: Erik W. and Christine B. Worthmann Seller: Terry T. Agnew and Margaret G. Edmiston
3529 Beauclerc Wood Lane W., Jacksonville Type: Single-family Lot size: 1.43 acres House size: 5,651 square feet Buyer: Craig M. and Lisa D. Roberts Seller: Henry K. and Jennifer M. Brown Previous sale: $1,400,000 in 2016
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$1,150,000 9411 Old A1A, St. Augustine Type: Single-family Lot size: 1.27 acres House size: 2,788 square feet Buyer: Gregory S. and Lesley A. Spowart Seller: Judson M. and Carolyn Connor
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$1,720,000
$1,460,000
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Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.28 acres House size: 5,229 square feet Buyer: Robert D. and Kathleen M. Supina Seller: Andrew D. and Andrea L. McBride Previous sale: $955,000 in 2012
Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.08 acres House size: 3,168 square feet Buyer: Nickolas and Alixe Stamatogiannakis Seller: Robert J. and Susan L. Branley
Type: Single-family Lot size: 1 acre House size: 3,887 square feet Buyer: Jordan K. and Vicky A. Post Seller: Joseph Andrews Homes LLC
Type: Single-family Lot size: 1.22 acres House size: 3,969 square feet Buyer: Benjamin F. and Caroline E. Gruenbaum Seller: 730 PVB LLC Previous sale: $825,000 in 2011
Type: Acquilus II Condominium Condominium size: 2,471 square feet Buyer: Michael W. and Lori B. Bruman Seller: The Claudette K. Dill Revocable Trust Previous sale: $715,000 in 2013
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