Daily Record Financial News &
Friday, April 21, 2017
Vol. 104, No.114 • One Section
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General Dynamics adding Jacksonville jobs General Dynamics Information Technology is adding jobs at its North Jacksonville operations center. A “virtual hiring event” is scheduled 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Wednesday for prospects “to
learn about endless opportunities in Information Technology, Sales, Accounting, Finance, Customer Service, Human Resources, Engineering, and Clinical as well as so much more” in Jacksonville. A link on the website will go live the day of the event. Visit gdit.com/careers/virtual-jobs/call-center/ for more information. It’s not clear how many jobs
are available, though. Job postings show several openings, including a recruiter for its Health and Civilian Solutions Division. It also seeks a training specialist to join its Consumer Finance Protection Bureau “in sunny Jacksonville, Florida.” Another posting is for a customer service representative on the Debt Management and Collection System contract.
The federal and commercial contractor did not have a lot to say beyond acknowledging the project. “We do have a contact center at the facility in Jacksonville. Our employees there provide call center support services for a number of different customers,” said spokesman Mark Meudt by email. “And we are expanding our current space to accommodate
our business at this contact center location,” he said. The city is reviewing a permit application for Dav-Lin Interior Contractors to renovate space at 1 Imeson Park Blvd., No. 100, for the company to expand. The $352,662 project includes partitions, painting, electrical and plumbing work, HVAC and more build-out. Mathis
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The owners of the Intuition Ale Works building want to transform a structure at Forsyth Street and A. Philip Randolph Boulevard into a commercial and entertainment complex.
You could soon be bowling in the urban core The Doro District is one of many infill projects moving forward Downtown
By David Cawton Staff Writer Downtown is working on the upside of infill. A pair of infill projects won Downtown Development Review Board approval Thursday that will bring housing and entertainment — including bowling — to the Northbank. On the eastern end of Downtown, Iconic Real Estate Investments LLC plans to transform a vacant industrial building at Forsyth Street and A. Philip Randolph Boulevard into a commercial and entertainment complex called The Doro District. On the western side, Vestcor received the green light to move forward with another affordable Infill
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The Lofts at Monroe will be a 108-unit affordable housing development in the LaVilla area of Downtown.
A CLOCK SELLER’S TIMELESS ADVICE
Kerstin Chelius reflects on 50 years as a small business owner — and what it takes to be successful By Maggie FitzRoy Contributing Writer In 1966, when Kerstin Chelius and her husband Richard were living in Manhattan, Richard got the idea that they should go into business. Although she was pregnant with their daughter, Kerstin agreed. They bought a small Swiss music box import wholesale company, and ran it while Richard kept his executive position with General Electric. Within a year and a half, they tripled their income. That adventure led to 50 years of small business ownership success, thanks to
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the couple’s willingness to change with the times, and take calculated risks in doing so. Kerstin kept their Jacksonville business, Sandmark House, running until January, when she closed the Beach Boulevard shop and joined Richard in retirement. In March, she was awarded the Women Business Owners of North Florida Lifetime Achievement Award—the first such honor from the Jacksonville organization she helped found. “Once we found out she was retiring,
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Kerstin Chelius was awarded the first Women Business Owners Lifetime Achievement Award in March. She retired and shut down her business, Sandmark House, in January.
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