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ECONOMIC TRENDS
THE MATHIS REPORT
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Jacksonville labor market looking stronger in 2019
JACKSONVILLE
Jacksonville business hiring expectations for the first quarter of 2019:
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
Daily Record Daily Record JACKSONVILLE Who’s hiring
U.S. companies planning staff increases in the first quarter of 2019:
Maintain staff level
66%
Increase staff
30%
Leisure and hospitality
JACKSONVILLE 33% Transportation and utilities
30%
That produces a net employment outlook of 29 percent, the company said. The only metro areas with a brighter net outlook than Jacksonville are three others in Florida: Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach at 37 percent, Cape Coral-Fort Myers at 32 percent and Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater at 31 SEE JOBS, PAGE 3
SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
29% Unsure
3%
Decreasing staff
1%
Source: ManPowerGroup
Survey finds region has fourth-best employment outlook in the U.S. for the first quarter. CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Jacksonville’s labor market is ending 2018 in strong shape, with unemployment at its lowest level since at least 1990. According to a quarterly survey released last week by staffing firm ManpowerGroup, the news may even be bet-
ter next year. ManpowerGroup’s quarterly survey of hiring expectations of the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas found Jacksonville has the fourth-best employment outlook for the first quarter of 2019. According to its survey of Jacksonville area businesses, 30 percent expect to increase staff in the first quarter while only 1 percent anticipate shedding jobs.
Regency Park Shopping Center campus planned to open in the summer. Celebration Church is preparing to open an Arlington campus at the Regency Park Shopping Center in the former Hobby Lobby space. Pastor Drew King, chief business officer of Celebration Church, said the church will open in the summer. “We have always wanted to have a Celebration Church campus in the Regency/Arlington area of Jacksonville but haven’t found the perfect location until now,” King said by email. He said Celebration Church has a large number of congregants in the Arlington area who now drive to the main location on RG Skinner Parkway. The Regency Park church will be a closer option for them. “But we also look forward to serving the entire community who may not be familiar with Celebration yet,” King said. The Jacksonville-based church will lease almost 40,000 square feet of space adjacent to and behind Books-A-Million, according to a site plan by landlord Brixmor Property Group
Wholesale and retail trade
BY MARK BASCH
Celebration Church taking former Hobby Lobby space
Forum at Greenbriar planned in St. Johns St. Johns County issued a permit for a two-story, almost 52,000-square-foot retail building for the Forum at Greenbriar planned at 206 Ashourian Way in St. Augustine at a construction cost of $529,665. Jacksonville-based Ash Properties says on ashproperties.com that the 81,000-squarefoot shopping center includes an almost 57,000-square-foot multistory office-retail building, along with a build-to-suit pad. It lists the address as 2703 County Road 210.
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