Daily Record Financial News &
TUESDAY, JANUARY 17, 2017
Vol. 104, No. 046 • oNe SectioN
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Plan ties power cost to when it is used
Sprucing up Ribault on King’s Day of Service
Bills can be lower by avoiding peak times
Photos by Fran Ruchalski
By Max Marbut Staff Writer
Volunteers paint a mural of a downtown skyline with figures dancing in the streets on a courtyard wall at Jean Ribault High School on Monday as part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service. Volunteers from several area organizations, businesses and the AmeriCorps City Year program participated in beautifying the school’s campus.
A pilot program for a new way to bill residential customers for electricity will be considered today by JEA’s board of directors. SmartSavings would allow customers to control their monthly bill by reducing usage during peak periods of demand and by limiting the amount of electricity they use at a given time. According to promotional materials available at jea.com, peak periods vary depending on the time of year. April-October peak demand occurs noon-7 p.m. Monday-Friday; NovemberMarch is 6-9 a.m. Monday-Friday. In addition to deciding when to use electricity in general, JEA also recommends customers change when they use appliances that require the most electricity. In a typical all-electric home, the central heating and air system can account for up to 40 percent of electric usage. The water heater is nearly 20 percent of the total bill, a clothes dryer nearly 9 percent and a refrigerator or freezer, 8 percent. By avoiding using a dryer when the heating and cooling system is operating, the household’s peak usage is lower, which would result in a lower cost per kilowatthour for electricity. Customers who enroll in the program could pay less on an annual basis for the electricity they use. There would be two rate categories and JEA
By Wesley LeBlanc Contributing Writer
Brittany Fuller of the AmeriCorps City Year program paints in the details of King’s face in a mural, which depicts heroes of the student who designed it.
Skechers to open outlet in Regency Pointe
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and women, children’s shoes and athletic sneakers. It also operates a factory outlet store in the St. Augustine Premium Outlets and a regular store in The Avenues mall. Skechers USA Inc. is publicly traded on the NYSE. It sells its footwear in depart-
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Three-year old Milana Foster helps her dad, Patrick, Kevin Glassman and Alyssa Jackson of Wells Fargo paint Yale University’s logo on a picnic bench in the courtyard. Logos of prominent and local universities were painted around Ribault’s campus.
The Regency area is set to gain a new retailer. Skechers USA Inc. plans to open a footwear outlet in early February at 9450 Arlington Expressway in the Regency Pointe shopping center. The Regency Pointe flyer at landlord website Sandordev.com shows Skechers will open in 8,450 square feet in the end unit along Atlantic Boulevard. The downsized Office Depot previously occupied the space. Skechers, based in Manhattan Beach, Calif., applied to the city for a certificate of use for retail footwear sales at the address. The company sells casual shoes for men
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ment, specialty and independent stores as well as through more than 1,710 companyowned Skechers retail stores and at skechers.com. Calling itself a $3 billion global leader in the performance and lifestyle footwear industry, Skechers says it designs, develops and markets more than 3,000 styles for men, women and children. In the Regency area, Skechers will become another pocket of re-use and redevelopment. For example, The Juicy Crab restaurant is taking over the closed Sweet Tomatoes across the street; Chipotle Mexican Grill MATHIS CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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On the first day of 2017, Michelle Glass celebrated the one-year anniversary of her real estate law firm. That opening came after a long journey in the legal world, one that began when she was a child. Glass remembers sitting in the judge’s chambers during her parents’ divorce proceedings, with an attorney on each side of her. “I was 5 but even though I didn’t know what they were doing, I knew I want- Glass ed to do it,” she said. Her first job in the field was as a secretary for a bankruptcy firm. Afterward, Glass attended the St. Thomas University School of Law in Miami. Born and raised in South Carolina, it was GLASS CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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