Daily Record FINANCIAL NEWS &
THURSDAY, MAY 25, 2017
VOL. 104, NO.138 • ONE SECTION
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Plan would save most of Cathedral District building
Lung center moving forward $32.4 million building at Mayo Clinic’s Southside campus
Mayo Clinic and United Therapeutics are another step closer to developing a lung-restoration center at Mayo’s Southside campus. The city is reviewing a permit application for construction of a $32.4 million structure for the center. Whiting-Turner Contracting Co. will build the three-story, 75,000-square-foot center at 14221 Kendall Hinch Circle. The city also is reviewing a $6.2 million project for soil improvements, foundations and structural concrete work for the center. It will be next to the Birdsall Medical Research and Griffin Cancer Research buildings on the Mayo campus at 4500 San Pablo Road, just off Butler Boulevard. A spokesman said previously that construction is estimated for completion in the first quarter of 2019. He said it could create about 70 jobs, with about 25 United Therapeutics staff to run the center. Mayo Clinic will dedicate about 50 employees to it. The project owner is Lung Bio-
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Above: The section of the former Community Connections building at 325 E. Duval Street with a flat roof will be torn down under the plan approved by the Jacksonville Historic Preservation Commission on Wednesday. Right: The plan would preserve the Colonial Revival features of the building, originally built as a YWCA in 1949.
Developer wants to transform former Community Connections site into a ‘very special’ mixed-use residential project
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By David Cawton Staff Writer With approval late Wednesday from the city Historic Preservation Commission, developer Mike Balanky intends to take the next steps toward transforming a block in Jacksonville’s Downtown Cathedral District. “We want to do something very special with this space that’s going to add to the residential development for Downtown,” said Balanky, president of Jacksonvillebased Chase Properties Inc.
The project eventually will support 115120 apartments, with at least 15 percent set aside for workforce housing over the next 10 years, he said. No other uses were specified and Balanky said designs are being determined. Community Connections of Jacksonville Inc. is trying to sell the 1.5-acre site at Duval, Liberty and Church Streets and Shields Place to Chase Properties to develop a mixed-use residential project. Originally the YWCA, Community ConCATHEDRAL
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