FRIDAY November 15, 2019
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SmartStream Technologies to open office in Jacksonville
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Construction to begin in January on new Fields Porsche dealership
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The London-based financial software and services provider leases space at Enterprise Park.
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An artist’s rendering of the Porsche dealership that Fields Auto Group will develop at 11211 Atlantic Blvd.
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The company’s existing Porsche dealership will move down the street to space next door to Jaguar Land Rover Jacksonville. Fields Auto Group is moving and improving its dealerships along Atlantic Boulevard, one of the city’s primary corridors for auto sales. The group built a new Jaguar Land Rover Jacksonville dealership at 11217 Atlantic Blvd. and demolished the old
Plans show a 41,032-square-foot, two-story building for the new Porsche dealership.
building next door at 11211 Atlantic Blvd. That’s where it will develop a new Porsche dealership. Garry Redig, vice president of operations at Fields Auto Group, said he expects construction to start in January and be completed in November. International Contractors Inc. is the contractor. Redig did not provide an investment estimate. Fields Auto Group’s existing Porsche
dealership will relocate from 10100 Atlantic Blvd. It occupies 24,450 square feet there. Redig said that site will become the Fields Collision Center, which now is behind the group’s Lexus dealership on Atlantic Boulevard. He said the existing collision center likely will be demolished and the space used for inventory. SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
London-based SmartStream Technologies says it will open a customer service center in Jacksonville in early 2020. SmartStream is a financial software and managed services provider. It has more than 1,500 clients, including BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Northern Trust and Nasdaq. It was founded in 2000. It will lease 6,908 square feet of space at Enterprise Park at 4190 Belfort Road. Scott Henley, senior vice president of global corporate services with Newmark Phoenix Realty Co., repre- Roth sented SmartStream in the site search and lease negotiations. SmartStream operates a U.S. headquarters in New York City and has offices in 17 countries. Chief Marketing Officer Mark Roth said the Jacksonville customer service center will start with 20 employees, with plans to grow the staff “exponentially.” The 20 employees will be a mix of relocated personnel and new hires. According to job postings on its website, it has several openings on its reconciliations team, and an opening for a senior application support analyst. “Being in the tech field, we’ve heard from a lot of people that it’s a great place to open up a center,” SEE SMARTSTREAM, PAGE 2
Interior demo OK’d for old FBI building The former FBI building in Arlington was approved for interior demolition. The city issued a permit Wednesday for All American Debris & Wrecking LLC to gut the interior at a cost of $275,000. The permit lists the proposed use as storage. All American Debris was cleared to demolish the interior and remove some of the exterior elements of the six-story, almost 94,000-square-foot building at 7820 Arlington Expressway. Kozman Realty Inc., with an address in Canada, paid $1.2 million for the vacant building on 4.8 acres. The FBI occupied the building from 1975 to 2009.
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