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Thursday, December 14, 2017
Vol. 105, No. 021 • One Section
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Champion Brands plans new HQ Beverage distributor would build office on property it owns south of Shad Road near The Avenues. While the plans are tentative, Champion Brands Inc. applied to the city to build an almost 36,000-square-foot office headquarters at its Southside campus. No contractor is listed for the one-story building on 6.02 acres at 5520 Florida Mining Blvd S. Horton, Harley & Carter Inc. of Tampa is the architect. The project cost is listed at $9 million. Champion Brands leadership declined comment pending bids, meaning that costs and design plans can change. Champion Brands, which distributes American and imported beverages, is based at 5571 Florida Mining Blvd. S. The site is south of Shad Road west of Interstate 95 and Philips Highway. Tentative plans show offices; a boardroom; sales, conference and training rooms, a fitness center and a break room. There’s also an outdoor area with seating, a fire pit, a beer Mathis
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Champion Brands is based at 5571 Florida Mining Blvd. S., where it maintains a distribution center for beer and other beverages. It is It is considering building an office headquarters there.
Lawsuit looms after appeal denied for Southbank tower Ventures Development Group can proceed with plan for apartments that’s opposed by owner of Aetna Building next door. By David Cawton Staff Writer Downtown property owners could be headed to court after an appeal of a new Southbank residential tower to the Downtown Development Review Board failed at a special meeting Tuesday. The board upheld a decision it made last summer allowing Ventures Development Group to move forward with a 13-story apartment building planned
on 2.9 acres along Prudential Drive between the Aetna Building and the Acosta Bridge by approving five zoning code deviations. GV-IP Jacksonville Owner LLC, which owns the neighboring Aetna Building property through IP Capital Partners LLC, is trying to block the project. The Boca Raton-based private equity firm purchased the 6.5 acres of land that includes the Aetna Building in 2013 “We plan to take it to court, because legally, you can’t do this,” said Jason Isaacson, president of IP Capital Partners. “This is not the end of it,” he said. Isaacson said Wednesday his group would take legal action “very soon,” but deferred any legal questions to his attorney, Daniel Bean of Holland & Knight. Ventures
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Ventures Development Group wants to build a residential tower on the Downtown Southbank between the Acosta Bridge and the Aetna Building.
The Cawton Report: Visit Jacksonville making plans Tourism agency seeking new contract, wants to leave Laura Street location. Public
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