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in this office a long time.” He’s been there 26 years. The sign was off the Southbank building. Liquidators were down to the “Last 9 days!” of selling the remaining HQ furniture and fixtures. A handful of executives and IT specialists prepared to move to a Baymeadows satellite office as they wrapped up busi-

The Jacksonville Aviation Authority is seeking City Council approval to rezone more than 2,000 acres near Jacksonville International Airport for a twophase, mixed-use development called JAX Commerce Center. The property is at northwest Interstate 95 and I-295. One area of the development, called JAX Commerce Center North on the master plan, is at Pecan Park Road and International Airport Boulevard. The other area, JAX Commerce Center South, is south of it, along International Airport Boulevard north of I-295. JAA wants to rezone the 2,014 acres for a planned unit development to include commercial, flex industrial, hotel and specialty entertainment. The goal would be to eventually lease the land to developers, who could only build in accordance with the zoning. Those developments would need to be compatible with the nearby airport, meaning they wouldn’t draw heavy traffic to the area. “The JAA is not going to be developing any nonaeronautical properties on our property,” said JAA Director of External Affairs Michael Stewart. “This is an effort to make it a little easier in the process when development will start to take place.” According to the PUD writ-

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Stein Mart CEO D. Hunt Hawkins shows what’s left in the office lobby at the bankrupt company’s headquarters on the Downtown Southbank at 1200 Riverplace Blvd. “That was a difficult day, getting my personal belongings out of here,” he said. His office furniture was sold in the liquidation.

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. Hunt Hawkins spent his last full day in his 10th-floor office at the former Stein Mart Inc. building dressed casually and waiting for his office furniture to be moved out. It was Nov. 13, three months and a day after Stein Mart’s Chapter 11 filing in U.S.

Bankruptcy Court, and time to leave the Downtown Southbank headquarters at 1200 Riverplace Blvd. Hawkins, as CEO of the Jacksonvillebased off-price fashion and home-goods retailer, already had removed his personal belongings. A backpack and coffee cup remained, along with other miscellany. “Mine’s all gone,” Hawkins said. “That was a difficult day, getting my personal belongings out of here, because I’ve been

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COVID cases affecting CSX employees

After the initial COVID-19 outbreak slowed freight traffic in the spring, CSX Corp. has seen increased business on its rail lines as the economy recovers. However, the recent spike in COVID cases in the U.S. is affecting operations, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing Mark Wallace said last week. “We’re dealing with sort of, I don’t know if you call it a second wave, but more cases popping up and that’s affecting our employee population,” Wallace said at an investor conference presented by Robert W. Baird. “We’re seeing a lot of Wallace cases around the network, specifically right now in the Midwest. We’ve seen some hot spots of employees that are having to go out because they’ve got the disease, and so we’re dealing with it,” he said. Jacksonville-based CSX’s rail network operates throughout the Eastern half of the U.S. Wallace said CSX learned valuable lessons during the first wave of the pandemic in the spring that are helping the company deal with a resurgence of the virus. “We dispatched a lot of PPE across the network to ensure that those employees who remained and were working were safe,” he said. “They masked. They had the sanitizers, everything they needed to continue working in a safe manner.” Wallace said the company

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CSX Vice President of Sales and Marketing Mark Wallace said lessons the company learned during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic are helping it now.

also learned lessons about communicating with customers during the crisis. “The way we’re working with our customers is impressive, and I think that gives us a lot of confidence,” he said. The communication included “sitting down with our customers and showing them that we didn’t drop the ball. In some cases, we had some difficult times but that was to be expected,” he said. Wallace said recent news about COVID vaccines has him optimistic about improving conditions in 2021. “The news is great news for us and for everybody else,” he said. “We think, hopefully into the new year, things start to settle down a little bit. We can get back to normal railroading here, but we’re continuing to watch the situation.”

Analyst says CSX a ‘Top Rail Pick’ Credit Suisse analyst Allison Landry on Nov. 16 named CSX as her “Top Rail Pick,” citing the success of its precision scheduled railroading initiative on improving operations. “The prevailing view for the last year has been that the PSR cost-cutting efforts have largely begun to bottom out,” Landry said in a research note. “But considering that CSX is the furthest along of its U.S. Class I peers as far as implementation, in conjunction with apparent share gains and recent volume trends that are

tracking the furthest above our estimates, we can see a scenario whereby investors start to re-consider the growth narrative – setting the stock up for continued relative outperformance as we head into 2021,” she said.

PNC seeks national footprint with BBVA acquisition

PNC Financial Services Group Inc.’s $11.6 billion agreement to buy BBVA USA Bancshares Inc. is part of a plan to create a national footprint for the Pittsburgh-based banking company, PNC officials said Nov. 16. “Starting with the RBC acquisition that established our presence in the Southeast, we’ve been consistently focused on expanding into new markets with the ultimate strategic objective of building a national franchise,” PNC Chief Executive Bill Demchak said in a conference call with analysts. PNC acquired the U.S. banking operations of Royal Bank of Canada in 2012, giving it about 400 branches in six Southeastern states. “BBVA is going to supercharge these national expansion efforts with its highly attractive and complementary franchise,” Demchak said. PNC has about 2,200 branches, most in a region between Chicago and New York. Acquiring BBVA adds more than 600 offices in Florida, Texas, Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado and New Mexico.

Landstar CFO Kevin Stout leaves Landstar System Inc. said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing that Chief Financial Officer Kevin Stout stepped down as chief financial officer Nov. 2. Stout was promoted to CFO at the end of 2014, when then-Chief Financial Officer James Gattoni was promoted to CEO. Gattoni The Jacksonvillebased trucking company did not give a reason for Stout’s departure as an executive officer. Landstar said Stout will serve as a special adviser to the CEO until December 2021. Gattoni will serve as principal financial officer of Landstar until a successor is named.

Georgia Senate runoff ads boost TV station revenue

Political advertising reached record levels this year for Tegna Inc., and it’s a gift for the television station operator that keeps on giving. “As you may have heard, we’re not done” with political ads, Tegna CEO David Lougee said last week in the company’s quarterly conference call with analysts, according to a transcript posted by the company. “We now have not one, but two, U.S. Senate runoff (elections) scheduled for early January in Georgia, where we have

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two stations in Atlanta and our strong CBS affiliate in Macon, and the spending has already begun,” he said. Lougee did not mention Tegna’s two Jacksonville stations, WTLV TV-12 and WJXX TV-25. With Southeast Georgia included in the Jacksonville television market, ads for the Georgia runoffs already are appearing on local stations. Lougee said Tegna took in $395 million in political ad revenue this year through Election Day, which was 70% higher than the 2018 election season. That big increase is partially due to acquisitions that increased Tegna’s station count to 63, from 47 during the 2018 election season. Lougee did not want to make any predictions for the additional spending from Georgia. “We don’t have, frankly, a good answer other than we know it will be very, very large for obvious reasons,” he said. The other public company operating Jacksonville television stations, Graham Holdings Co., said third-quarter revenue from its broadcasting division rose 16% to $133.8 million, helped by a $24.8 million increase in political ads. Graham operates seven television stations, including WJXT TV-4 and WCWJ TV-17 in Jacksonville.

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BBVA has 43 Florida offices, including 24 in the Jacksonville market, making it the fourthlargest bank in the Northeast Florida market. PNC has an office in Jacksonville but no bank branches. It has 170 branches in Central and South Florida, with the nearest to Jacksonville in Palm Coast and Gainesville. PNC said the merger will make it the fifth largest U.S. bank with $564 billion in assets and 2,844 branches. BBVA, owned by Spainbased Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A., changed its U.S. brand name from BBVA Compass to just BBVA last year. It had been using the old name since acquiring Compass Bancshares Inc. in 2007.

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The Harbour Village center will be the Jacksonville company’s third location. The closed Retro Fitness at Harbour Village is becoming LionShare Cowork. The city is reviewing a permit application for First Coast Walls and Ceilings Inc. to build-out 17,018 square feet for the coworking space at 13475 Atlantic Blvd., No. 8, at a cost of $91,000. LionShare Cowork owner Michael Januzzi said Nov. 13 he hopes to open Jan. 1. “COVID delayed our materials etc. by 3 months,” he said by email. JAA Archi- Januzzi tecture is the architect. Codes-ABC Inc. is handling code compliance. Retro Fitness closed in May 2019. Harbour Village is at Atlantic Boulevard and San Pablo Road. Jacksonville-based Lion-

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LionShare Cowork operates in Pablo Station and intends to open a second location at the former Retro Fitness at 13475 Atlantic Blvd., No. 8, in the Harbour Village shipping center.

Share says on its website that it will open the flagship location “designed with a ton of amenities including spacious conference, podcast and private zoom rooms, 30+ offices and a variety of dedicated and shared workspaces.” It calls the space an option for freelancers and startups with flexible schedules on a budget. It offers business addresses, hourly meeting rooms and packages that include workstations, offices, snacks and drinks. Its first location is at 14333 Beach Blvd., Suite 33, in Pablo

Station at Beach Boulevard and atSan Pablo Road. “We look forward to delivering another next generation workspace that will continue to provide our clients all the comforts of working from home, while producing a productive environment to get work done,” said Januzzi in the February announcement about the new location. He said the 11,000-squarefoot Pablo Station location, which opened in 2017, is doing well. “We lost a few customers from March-May. But by June we were again full.”

Interior work is in review at the LionShare Cowork planned in the Harbour Village shopping center.

DEVELOPMENT NOTES Fire Station No. 63: The city is reviewing a permit application for construction of Fire Station No. 63 at 7300 Gate Parkway at a cost of $2.4 million. ACON Construction Co. Inc. is the contractor for the 9,390-squarefoot station on 3.77 acres. VRL Architects is the architect. In August, the city approved site clearing at a cost of $100,000 and the foundation construction for $60,000. Airport hotels: The city issued a concurrency reservation certificate for a 60,000-square-foot, 102-room

TownePlace Suites by Marriott and a 52,000-square-foot, 105-room Tru by Hilton on 4.03 acres at northeast Airport and Ranch roads. Taylor & White Inc. is the civil engineer.

RETAIL NOTES Scrubbles to Atlantic North: Scrubbles 3 Minute Express Wash will soon take shape in the Atlantic North shopping center. The city is reviewing permit applications for Scrubbles to build a car wash, pay canopy and a dumpster enclosure at 11991 Atlantic

Blvd. at a cost of $690,000. Atlantic North Scrubbles Express Wash LLC of Tifton, Georgia, is the owner. Dollar General to Nassau: The St. Johns River Water Management District is reviewing plans for a retail store by Concept Development Inc. at southwest South 14th and Lime streets in Fernandina Beach in Nassau County. The proposed 10,810-squarefoot building is planned on 1.19 acres. Gillette & Associates Inc. is the civil engineer. No retail name is identified, but Concept Development builds

Dollar General stores. Gate on San Pablo: The city issued a concurrency reservation certificate for Gate Petroleum Co. to develop a 6,536-square-foot gas station and convenience store on 2.92 acres east along San Pablo Parkway, south of Crosswater Boulevard. It will have 20 fueling positions. Prosser Inc. is the civil engineer. The St. Johns River Water Management District issued a permit Oct. 6 for the project to landowner Estuary LLC.

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RESTAURANT NOTES Pepper’s to Durbin Creek Crossing: Pepper’s Mexican Grill wants to open a 180seat restaurant and cantina on the 1.3-acre Outparcel 2 at Durbin Creek Crossing at southwest Race Track Road and St. Johns Parkway in St. Johns County. ShayCore is the representative. The St. Johns County Growth Management Department is reviewing the application. Colliers International, the leasing broker, shows on a marketing brochure that Pepper’s Cocina Mexican will be on the site. The Peppers Cocina Mexicana & Tequila Bar site shows two locations in Fernandina Beach and Fleming Island.

Whataburger to Oakleaf: Whataburger filed civil engineering plans with the city for a 3,198-square-foot restaurant in Oakleaf Corner at northeast Old Middleburg Road and Argyle Forest Boulevard. Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. is the civil engineer. Popeyes to West Jacksonville: The city issued a concurrency reservation certificate for Popeyes to build a 2,107-square-foot, 28-seat restaurant and drive-thru on 1.89 acres at southeast 103rd Street and Rockola Road in West Jacksonville. Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. is the civil engineer.

Paradise Grills wants to take Newk’s space at Town Center Paradise Grills wants to build-out the former Newk’s Eatery space at Town Center Promenade. The city is reviewing a permit application for Paradise Grills in 4,380 square feet of space at 4520 Town Center Parkway, No. 101, at a cost of $286,529. It is next to Aspen Dental. Tenant Contractors Inc. is the contractor. Hota Design Studio is the architect. Orlando-based Paradise Grills calls itself the largest outdoor kitchen manufacturer. It produces commercial barbecue grills, stainless appliances, prebuilt outdoor kitchens, fireplaces, and tiki huts and island bars. Its first Jacksonville location is at 8206 Philips Highway, Unit 20, in Baymeadows Junc-

tion at Baymeadows Road and Philips Highway. Newk’s closed last year at Town Center Promenade a little more than two years after it opened. It continues to operate three Jacksonville locations.

Shipley targets Dec. 2 opening Shipley Do-Nuts Jacksonville tentatively expects to open the week of Dec. 2. “A few last minute items happening now, but fingers crossed all will go as planned,” said Jacksonville franchise owner Robb Hamlett by email Nov. 13. Shipley Do-Nuts is buildingout space at 12667 Beach Blvd., No. 101, in Tamaya Market.

The city issued a permit July 29 for Equity Builders of Florida L.L.C. to build-out 1,576 square feet for the shop at a cost of $228,759. Hamlett is the Jacksonville franchise owner for Houstonbased Shipley Do-Nuts with his wife, Tracy Hamlett, and his brother and sister-in-law, Eddie and Kristen Jones. Shipley Do-Nuts is known for its glazed yeast doughnuts, “and they have been a hit wherever they have gone,” Hamlett said. The chain sells iced and filled doughnuts; cinnamon, iced nut, apple cinnamon, and cream cheese rolls; donut holes; and other pastries, such as apple fritters. It also sells kolaches, and drinks like coffee, milk and juices. Pastries

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ness. Hawkins is down to two days a week, “just to help close things out.” He wasn’t taking the desk, credenza and other office furniture, by the way. A buyer picked those up the next day. Stein Mart leased about half of the 10-story building. What’s left of the headquarters tables, chairs, lamps, artwork and other furnishings is on that top executive floor. The sale is open to the public 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 19 and the liquidator wraps up Nov. 20. What’s not sold stays with the building landlord. “Then we’ll abandon the offices, probably the week of Thanksgiving, but no later than the end of the month,” Hawkins said. “The only thing required under bankruptcy is that we take the sign down, which we did.” It came down Nov. 5. “That was probably one of the saddest things, watching the sign come down.” A ‘GUT-WRENCHING’ ZOOM

Hawkins considered his last full day with mixed emotions. “The reality was, I’m almost 62 years old and I was really working toward retirement anyway,” he said. He hadn’t expected to be there. In January before the pandemic, Stein Mart’s board had agreed to sell the company to Kingswood Capital Management LLC and to an entity managed by Chairman Jay Stein. “They pretty well indicated that I was going to be heading off into the sunset,” Hawkins said. Then the pandemic forced nationwide shutdowns in March, which crushed retail sales. The merger was called off in April. Talks resumed, unsuccessfully. “You didn’t expect to go out this way. You prepare for a lot of contingencies, you look at a lot of different things and you think you’ve got everything under control and then suddenly a pandemic comes and they shut you down,” he said. Stein Mart operated 281 stores in 30 states, with most locations in the South and the Sunbelt. The stores closed at the end of business March 18 and started reopening in April. “The vendor community, once we reopened, they were working with us pretty well,” Hawkins said. He, Stein Mart President MaryAnne Morin and Chief Financial Officer James Brown were optimistic they would pull through.

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Stein Mart CEO D. Hunt Hawkins with the cash register used in the original Stein Mart store in Greenville, Mississippi, during the 1940s and 1950s. Former Chairman Jay Stein and his wife, Deanie, donated it to the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in North Orleans.

They thought it might take a year to “come around the corner,” but that it was possible. Instead, what was around the bend was another surge of COVID-19. “When the resurgence hit Florida, hit Texas, hit Arizona and California, and that’s almost 45% of our stores, sales just plummeted and we just couldn’t keep up at that point,” Hawkins said. He, Morin and Brown kept the board apprised. They had talked with Wells Fargo, the lead banker, and Gordon Brothers, the term loan holder. “We were looking to them for a little bit more time, and they were looking and going, ‘Nah, it’s not going to work, guys.’” Hawkins said he and Brown knew it. “MaryAnne really was trying desperately to make it work. It’s not that James and I weren’t trying desperately to make it work, but you could read the cards, and the cards did not say it was going to work,” Hawkins said. “The cash flow indicated we would need more help from our lenders or other third party.” Stein Mart sent Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act notices for the headquarters and the Atlanta distribution facility late Aug. 11 about impending layoffs. The company filed for bankruptcy protection the next day. Hawkins spoke to the manage-

ment staff upon the filing. “It was difficult. That was the hardest part. I wasn’t going to do it via email. I was going to talk to them,” he said. Stein Mart set up two Zoom meetings to tell associates “we had to file.” One was with the corporate office and the other was with store managers and assistant managers. Corporate employees heard first and those in the field were told about a half-hour later. “I wanted them to see my face. I wanted them to hear the emotion in my voice because it wasn’t something that I was relishing doing,” Hawkins said. “But it also wasn’t something that I wasn’t going to tell them personally.” Because of Zoom’s logistics, Stein Mart didn’t take questions at those meetings. It sent out questions and answers soon after, and associates could log onto an internal site to ask more. The company gave news releases and information to distribution and store managers to share with their associates. “The HR staff has been fabulous. They have answered more questions and provided more unemployment documents, provided more letters for landlords and all the things that have to go on to help folks get on with their lives, and give them as much help as we could possibly give them,” Hawkins said.

Stein Mart was not permitted to pay severance or accrued vacation because of the bankruptcy filing. It was limited to helping with HR support and to explain unemployment benefits. “The lack of severance or vacation pay that had been accrued was a sore spot,” Hawkins said. As of Feb. 1, Stein Mart’s workforce comprised about 9,000 employees, including about 350 based at the headquarters as well as the stores and three distribution centers. “We had somewhere around 9,300 associates, and I feel like in some ways we let them down,” Hawkins said. The store liquidation sales started with the filing and concluded Oct. 26. Of the original 280 managers, about 240 – a “very loyal employee base” – still were on board when the stores closed. “I’m sad for them,” Hawkins said, “But as I told everybody, you can’t look at anything you did that caused this. Our people, everybody from MaryAnne to everybody in the stores, did everything right,” he said. “It’s just when you get shut down from a pandemic it becomes incredibly difficult,” he said. “It’s nothing to hang their head about.” Advertising Manager Melissa Cummings, who was with Stein Mart for almost seven years, was in the main Zoom meeting, where

Hawkins appeared by video and Morin by audio. “You could tell it was painful for him, gut-wrenching,” she said. Cummings said the employees were in shock, having been told as recently as late June that Stein Mart leaders felt good about survival. “Many of us had just been given promotions,” she said. “But the one thing about Hunt is that he always seemed more down-to-earth and friendly toward employees than any other CEO I’ve worked for,” she said. “Those calls that morning were hard for him,” she said. “The decisions weren’t made lightly.” Stein Mart’s Chapter 11 petition, filed Aug. 12 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville Division, outlines the reasons for the decision. Retailers, especially those selling apparel and accessories, lost sales and market share the past several years to e-commerce retailers. That drove down profits. From 2016 through August, Stein Mart’s sales declined and the company faced “the difficult task of growing sales while significantly reducing expenses in a difficult retail environment,” said the filing. Stein Mart listed assets of almost $723.5 million and liabilities of $770.5 million in the bankruptcy filing.

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Jay Stein’s grandfather, Sam Stein, founded the company in 1908 in Greenville, Mississippi. His son, Jake, took over in 1932 and Jay Stein became CEO in 1977. Expansion followed. Stein opened the first of six Jacksonville area stores in 1983, moved the headquarters to Jacksonville in 1984 and took the company public in an initial public offering in 1992. Meanwhile, Hawkins, a Knoxville, Tennessee, native, earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee and a graduate degree in industrial/ organization psychology from the University of West Florida. Hawkins spent the first decade of his career with specialty retailer Genesco Inc., the Journeys men’s, women’s and children’s footwear chain. At the age of 34, he came to Stein Mart in 1994 on the senior management team as senior vice

president of human resources. “I was always part of that five or six folks that was able to help form strategies of the company,” he said. “That was fun.” When he arrived, Stein Mart had 68 stores, on its way to 293 at the peak in 2017. Over his 26 years, Hawkins served as executive vice president, co-president and CEO as well as chief operating officer and chief administrative officer. “You learn as an HR guy to be able to be flexible enough to work with anybody,” he said. He lists two leadership challenges: The three-year CEO tenure from 2008-11 of former Belk Inc. executive David Stovall, who reduced inventories and generated cash but experienced difficulty driving up sales, and the six-month leadership in 2016 of CEO Dawn Robertson, who moved quickly but “maybe not as cautiously” with sales initiatives. Hawkins counts the heyday as 2012-15, after Stovall left and Stein returned as CEO and named Hawkins and Brian Morrow as copresidents. Comparable store sales – sales at stores opened for more than a year – increased in each of those years, and the company’s financial health improved. Net sales rose from $1.2 billion in 2012 to $1.36 billion in 2015 and 2016. When Morrow left, Stein retired as CEO, remaining chairman, and brought in Robertson. After she left, Hawkins took over as CEO in January 2017, bringing on Morin as president. But those heyday years also had problems. “We became way too department store-like,” Hawkins said. Stein Mart filled its calendar with promotions, from coupons

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to 12- and 14-hour sales that required advertising and other “margin-erosive” actions. “That kind of took the customer’s eye off the fact that we were really off-price,” he said. Morin “was astonished” that about 70% of the products moved at the ticketed price, yet the company spent money on promotions that cut into margins. “When we tested going full offprice, no promotions whatsoever, we tested that in Richmond and in Detroit, and it worked beautifully,” Hawkins said. “I wish we had done that sooner.” Hawkins doesn’t blame the internet as much as other retailers might. “Everybody wants to blame Amazon and say that Amazon is a big bully. Years ago it was Walmart. Walmart was the big bully,” he said. Both are big and powerful, but not the only factor. “I think retailers can in some respects blame themselves because the fact is America is way over-retailed,” he said. “What we’re seeing is the fact that consumers’ tastes are changing. It’s become a casual world and the pandemic has made that even more powerful with the fact that more and more people are working from home.” Hawkins said Stein Mart was one of the first off-price retailers to create an internet presence and a website, which ended up accounting for about 8% of its sales volume. Off-price retailers generally buy excess inventory from brands and profit by selling it to consumers at prices lower than in boutiques, department stores and other full-price retailers. Hawkins said Stein Mart also was the first off-price retailer to

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offer in-store pickup and shipfrom-store. Stein Mart’s targeted customer was a style- and value-conscious woman age 45-65, and that was being driven lower. Morin focused on more modern and contemporary inventory, and the company began advertising steadily on TV and digitally. “That was helping us get a more younger-minded customer,” Hawkins said. The sales breakdown ended up as 49% for women’s apparel; 18% for men’s; 10% for home goods; 9% each for accessories and shoes; and 5% for other. In an effort to boost sales and customer traffic, Stein Mart reintroduced children’s clothing, which appealed to the core female customer, in 2019 and added fine jewelry. It even set up Amazon.com Hub Lockers in some locations. At the end, home goods became its strongest business during the pandemic. “The customer was stuck at home,” Hawkins said. “It was our highest margin and highest sales business, and it had not been for a long time. It was really fascinating to see a virus fix home,” he said, referring to that business category. The moves weren’t enough, and the leadership and board decided on bankruptcy. Asked about Hawkins, Richard Sisisky, Stein Mart’s lead independent director, said the board “felt fortunate to have him as our CEO.” “While we were all disappointed by the bankruptcy of Stein Mart caused by COVID-19 and the resulting inability to sell the business as planned, Hunt Hawkins provided steady and solid leadership as the company

navigated its way through the complicated process,” Sisisky said in an emailed statement. “Despite all the challenges, Hunt managed the myriad of different interests with care and concern for all impacted by the proceedings.” Stein Mart’s sales peaked at $1.5 billion in 2006. Since 2016, they slid to $1.22 billion by 2019. The last time Stein Mart posted an annual net income was $23.7 million in 2015. It reported net losses after that. THE NEXT MOVE

If Stein Mart doesn’t wind up the bankruptcy by February, Hawkins will have 27 years with the company. He turns 62 in March, when he and his wife, Sherri, will celebrate their 39th anniversary. They have two adult sons, five grandchildren, and consider a young woman they mentored to be a daughter. She has three children. The couple intends to relocate to their Palm Coast condo for retirement. Hawkins is thinking of consulting, but not in retail. He also has health to consider. He endured two open-heart surgeries – one at age 50 to replace a genetic bicuspid aortic valve. Seven years ago at the age of 54, four weeks after dental work and travel, he ran 6 miles on a Saturday morning and didn’t wake up on Sunday. Full-blown septic shock destroyed the valve and he had emergency surgery Nov. 17, 2013. “Knock on wood, all is well,” he said. “Which is a good reason to retire at 62.”

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The pandemic then sealed the deal. Stein Mart lost $66 million in the quarter that ended in May. Stein Mart received a $10 million loan June 30 from the federal Paycheck Protection Program for payroll and rent and is applying for loan forgiveness. Some employees privately say that they thought management knew more about the impending bankruptcy and closures than they shared with the associates, who did not have time to prepare, and they are disappointed that they received no severance, continued health benefits or other assistance. They say that longtime employees thought they deserved better. “I understand their frustration,” Hawkins said. “It was tough.”

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These are the largest commercial building permits by job cost issued Nov. 17 by the city of Jacksonville. OFFICE, BANK, PROFESSIONAL The CSI Companies, 7807 Baymeadows Road E., contractor is Marand Builders Inc., 52,971 square feet, three permits for tenant build-out, $548,324. Freedom Mortgage Corp., 8787 Baypine Road, contractor is Adams Interior Contractors Inc., 46,200 square feet, tenant build-out, $469,920. Atlantic-Lay LLC, 13891 Atlantic Blvd., contractor is Duckworth Construction Co., 4,220 square feet, interior renovation, $33,000. SIGNS Town Center Storage, 904123-4567, 3555 St. Johns Bluff Road S., contractor is Taylor Sign & Design Inc., four permits for wall signs, $17,200. Jacksonville Classical Academy, 2043 Forest St., contractor is Brown Enterprises, wall sign, $8,050. Aldi, 3650 Philips Highway, contractor is Shark Signs of NE FL Inc., two permits for wall signs, $4,700. Southern Athletica, 4663 River City Drive, No. 119, contractor is Harbinger LLC, two permits for wall and projection signs, $3,900. Taco Bell, 11270 Old St. Augustine Road, contractor is Maximum Maintenance of Tampa Inc., three permits for wall signs, $3,600. UF Health – Family Medicine Murray Hill, 5205 Normandy Blvd., No. 13, contractor is Liberty Lighting Inc., wall sign, $2,300.

Medtown Pharmacy, Daily Dose, 11643 Beach Blvd., contractor is Liberty Lighting Inc., two permits for wall signs, $2,201. VidaCann Premium Cannabis Products, 4339 Roosevelt Blvd., contractor is Coastline Wholesale Signs and LED Displays LLC, wall sign, $2,100. Stellers Gallery Est. 1985, 3562 St. Johns Ave., contractor is Harbinger LLC, wall sign, $2,000. Bullseye Holsters, 6300 Yukon Road, contractor is Liberty Lighting Inc., wall sign, $1,800. Juicy Seafood & Wings, 4368 University Blvd. S., No. 1, contractor is Advanced Electrical Contractors inc., wall sign, $1,500. One Main, 8102 Blanding Blvd., No. 7, contractor is Taylor Sign & Design Inc., wall sign, $1,200. Lululemon, 2006 San Marco Blvd., contractor is Shark Signs of NE FL Inc., wall sign, $1,000. STORES, MERCANTILE Kenworth of Jacksonville Inc., 1121 Suemac Road, contractor is Auld & White Constructors LLC, 67,582 square feet, two permits for new truck dealership and garage, $7 million. New Vision Properties Inc., 3484 Saland Way, contractor is North Coast Construction Co., 37,520 square feet, new building for granite shop, $2.75 million. Bodegon Super Market LLC, 5808 Normandy Blvd., No. 17, contractor is Landmark Builders LLC, 3,034 square feet, tenant build-out, $50,000. Compiled by Daily Record Staff

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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 Nov. 9-15.

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$14,862,342

$2,700,000

$2,525,000

$1,809,000

8540 Homeplace Drive, Jacksonville

4030 Deerpark Blvd., Elkton

100 Corridor Road, Ponte Vedra Beach

15202 Max Leggett Parkway, Jacksonville

Oakleaf Plantation Parkway, Orange Park

Type: Spyglass apartments Parcel size: 12.59 acres No. of units: 252 Buyer: CA Spyglass Owner LLC Seller: Spyglass-Fort LLC

Type: First Coast Distribution Center Parcel size: 13.09 acres Building size: 203,320 square feet Buyer: ES 4030 Deer Park LLC Seller: GCP-FCDC LLC Previous sale: $10,237,200 in 2013

Type: Office Parcel size: 1.44 acres Building size: 14,341 square feet Buyer: 100 Corridor Road Partnership LLC Seller: South State Bank N.A. Previous sale: $2,660,000 in 2013

Type: Express Oil Change & Tire Engineers Parcel size: 0.72 acres Building size: 3,995 square feet Buyer: Nazemi Express Oil LLC Seller: JWC Land LLC Previous sale: $680,000 in 2014

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$1,500,000

$1,300,000

$1,274,000

$1,050,000

800 Dunn Ave., Jacksonville

4600 Tropea Way, Jacksonville

2821 Bolton Road, Orange Park

Cape Fox Drive, Jacksonville

200 Blanding Blvd., Orange Park

Type: Affordable Dentures & Implants Parcel size: 1.17 acres Building size: 5,667 square feet Buyer: 21400 Office LLC Seller: Economy Dentures of Jacksonville LLC Previous sale: $875,000 in 2010

Type: 5.11 Tactical and other retail Parcel size: 1.92 acres Building size: Two buildings totaling 13,670 square feet Buyer: Scaninvest II LLC Seller: CPC Jacksonville Hospitality LLC

Type: Lakeside Business Center Parcel size: Not available Building size: Not available Buyer: Mukhi Holdings 1 LLC Seller: Sara L. Stubbe, Martha J. Creamer, Susan M. Babb and the Louise H. Saunders Revocable Living Trust

Type: 20 residential lots in Fox Chase Phase 3B Parcel size: Not available Buyer: D.R. Horton Inc.Jacksonville Seller: Forestar (USA) Real Estate Group Inc.

Type: Service station Parcel size: 0.91 acres Building size: Two buildings totaling 1,632 square feet Buyer: Plaza Street Fund 110 LLC Seller: ORFEU USA LLC Previous sale: $1,530,000 in 2017

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Pajcic & Pajcic supports Clara White Mission co-chair, said the group is discussing the logistics of personal delivery to older people, a high-risk group for coronavirus, while following COVID-19 safety precautions. “We may have to leave the gifts on the doorstep this year,” she said. For more information, contact Alina Vinci at avinci@ orrcook.com; Maura McCafferty at mmccafferty@orrcook. com; or Jolly at chandler.jolly@ adblegal.com.

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The law firm’s $100,000 donation will provide an early Thanksgiving dinner and support other programs. The Law Firm of Pajcic & Pajcic donated $100,000 to the Clara White Mission on Nov. 16. The money will be used to provide an early Thanksgiving dinner to 1,200 people Nov. 21 and also to support the nonprofit’s year-round programs. Accepting the gift, Clara White Mission CEO and President Ju’Coby Pittman called the contribution a “game changer.” “The gift will allow the Clara White Mission an opportunity to continue to do all the good that we can, in all the ways that we can, to all the people we can, while we can, ” Pittman said. Firm partner Seth Pajcic said it is important to the Pajcic family to give back to the community and now in the coronavirus pandemic, the need is even more urgent. “The Law Firm of Pajcic & Pajcic has been a longtime supporter of the Clara White Mission and its goal of job training and employment solutions to reduce homelessness,” he said. “While the coronavirus is taking a toll on all of us, the devastation of the pandemic on the community served by Clara White is even more drastic. With the holidays upon us, we felt this was an important time to do our part to help those who are struggling on so many fronts.” Clients of the nonprofit and their families come to the mission at 613 W. Ashley St. daily, seeking a hot meal and packaged food. To ensure the safety of those needing assistance by

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$1,570,900

$1,220,551

3790 Coastal Highway, St. Augustine

800 Old Bluff Drive, Ponte Vedra

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.3 acres House size: 2,488 square feet Buyer: Tracey L. and Steven Piotrowski Seller: William Griffin Holdings LLC Previous sale: $625,000 in 2020

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.39 acres House size: 4,224 square feet Buyer: Jason D. and Courtney B. Boroff Seller: Toll Brothers Jacksonville LP

ST. JOHNS

$1,125,000

DUVAL

$1,550,000

2733 S. Ponte Vedra Blvd., Ponte Vedra Beach

1314 Charter Court E., Jacksonville

ST. JOHNS

$2,200,000 8864 Old A1A, St. Augustine Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.99 acres House size: 3,678 square feet Buyer: Marisma Investments LLC Seller: Edgar L. and Donna McLean Previous sale: $1,200,000 in 2008

About the property: Oceanfront three-story home between the Fort Matanzas National Monument and Marineland. Features five bedrooms, three full baths and two halfbaths, balconies, porch, paver patio and garage.

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.42 acres House size: 4,014 square feet Buyer: Daniel M. and Amy M. Fields Seller: Tyson A. and Desire Alualu Previous sale: $875,000 in 2011

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.38 acres House size: 3,645 square feet Buyer: Hector Jurado Seller: The Basavarajappa Jagadish Living Trust and the Udaya P. Jagadish Living Trust

ST. JOHNS

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$1,689,000

$1,630,000

$1,600,000

$1,505,000

204 Twelve Oaks Lane, Ponte Vedra Beach

1632 Beach Ave., Atlantic Beach

1340 Trailwood Drive, Neptune Beach

119 Grand Palm Court, Ponte Vedra Beach

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.5 acres House size: 5,108 square feet Buyer: Mark and Leslie Mechlowitz Seller: Bob E. and Alma S. Hillin

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.13 acres House size: 3,143 square feet Buyer: Patrick C. Emans Seller: Henry P. Osborne, Rena M. Coughlin and the Osborne/Coughlin Trust

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.69 acres House size: 4,818 square feet Buyer: Michelle A. Harold Seller: Michael T. and Sharon A. Porter

$1,052,874 356 Port Charlotte Drive, Ponte Vedra

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.31 acres House size: 3,435 square feet Buyer: The Ortbals Family Trust Seller: Dream Finders Homes LLC TRMK-20001 TRAILMARK AD__JACKSONVILLE DAILY RECORD__10.375x8__AUGUST2020.qxp_Layout 1 8/21/20 2:29 PM Page 1

Type: Single-family Lot size: 0.31 acres House size: 4,250 square feet Buyer: David J. and Lise L. Mattice Seller: Toll Brothers Jacksonville LP

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I-95 | EXIT 323 | 10 MINUTES FROM WORLD GOLF VILLAGE | 805 TRAILMARK DRIVE | ST. AUGUSTINE , FLORIDA Site plans, community maps, photos and depictions are for illustration purposes only, are conceptual in nature, and should not be relied upon. GreenPointe Communities, LLC reserves the right to make changes to the foregoing at any time without notice. Home design, pricing, terms and oﬀers are subject to change. See Home Builders’ Sales Consultant for details.

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