Daily Record Financial News &
Friday, March 3, 2017
Vol. 104, No. 079 • One Section
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FSCJ’s ‘promise’ to students College is first in Florida to cover all costs for 2 years
Florida State College at Jacksonville is Florida’s first state college to participate in a national initiative to cover all expenses for two years for needy students. Starting this fall, FSCJ Promise will pay tuition, fees and books for up to 1,000 students for whom state and federal funding isn’t enough to cover those costs. FSCJ President Cynthia Bioteau announced the initiative Thursday at a news conference with Mayor Lenny Curry, Duval County Public Schools Superintendent Nikolai Vitti and others. “FSCJ Promise promotes equity
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This is the answer for you to come to school full time and finish your degree. To me it changes the entire college-going culture. President Cynthia Bioteau About the FSCJ Promise program
amongst our students — a core component of the college’s values — by eliminating the barrier of financial debt, ensuring that all our community members have the
chance to receive a quality education,” Bioteau said. The program targets first-time college students who attend full time, are eligible for a Pell Grant or federal student aid and maintain a 2.0 grade point average. For many students, it means they won’t have to work and attend college parttime, which statistically doesn’t bode well for making it to graduation. “This is the answer for you to come to school full time and finish your degree,” Bioteau said. “To me it changes the entire college-going culture.” Bioteau noted the lack of financial aid for college students, citing data from the FSCJ continued on Page 3
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Celebrating Dr. Seuss’s birthday on ship Students from Heart for Children, an afterschool program for underprivileged children living in an Eastside neighborhood near JaxPort, celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday Thursday with a party aboard the port’s Carnival cruise ship Elation. The children were treated to story time, complete with character appearances and a balloon drop from the ship’s atrium, above. Carnival also presented a $5,000 donation to the program, below, which also receives regular support from JaxPort.
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Jackson-Shaw lands spec sites’ permits Dallas-based Jackson-Shaw will soon put up the walls for two speculative Class A industrial buildings at Jacksonville International Tradeport. Called International 3 and 4 on the jacksonshaw.com site, the urban industrial buildings total 178,000 square feet of what Jackson-Shaw calls state-of-the-art bulk distribution space. The company said the buildings provide “one of the most strategic distribution locations in the market,” citing direct access to Jacksonville International Airport and Interstates 95 and 295. It said the structures are in the heart of the 425-acre Jacksonville International Tradeport masterplanned business park. Site-clearing was approved in January. Vertical construction was approved last week. The city approved construction of the two buildings totaling $6.8 million. Haskew Company & Associates is the contractor. International 3 is a 124,000square-foot building at 13525
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Call for bids on the street April 15
Two more weeks. The Duval County Tourist Development Council on Thursday pushed back its deadline to approve a request for proposals for marketing and promoting the area as a destination for leisure travelers, conventions and groups. The group has been meeting weekly to develop a new format for the contract that will begin Oct. 1 when Visit Jacksonville’s contract expires. Previously bid out as one agreement, the new format comprises distinct components of work: • A tourist bureau plan that includes operating visitor welcome centers, publishing a print-
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Deadline extended for tourism marketing RFP By Max Marbut Staff Writer
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International Parkway with a construction cost of $4.5 million. The building, on 13.36 acres, includes 109 parking spaces, a 32-foot clear height and 37 dock high doors. International 4 is a 54,000square-foot building at 13475 International Parkway with a construction cost of $2.3 million. On 3.6 acres, it includes 31 parking spaces, a 28-foot clear height and 16 dock high doors. Tyler Newman and Jacob Horsley, directors at Cushman & Wakefield, are the leasing agents. Newman said site work is completed and slab work is underway. Construction should be finished by the end of July. “It’s needed. There are a lot of tenants in the market right now
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ed visitors guide and developing and maintaining a database of hotels, motels, restaurants, entertainment venues, attractions and events. • A marketing plan • A convention promotion and sales plan The council worked on the specific language for the requirements of each component as well as individual scoring Boyer matrices. Each of the three components will be scored up to 90 points for the written response, 10 points for an in-person interview and up TDC continued on Page 3
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