Daily Record Financial News &
Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Vol. 104, No.147 • One Section
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For Jags’ revenue, London is key
Photo provided by World Affairs Council of Jacksonville
At the World Affairs Council luncheon on Tuesday, Jaguars President Mark Lamping said playing a home game in London has helped pull the team’s ranking from next-to-last out of 32 teams in local revenue five years ago to in the mid-20s now.
Last season, 15 percent of the team’s local revenue came from playing overseas game
By Mark Basch Contributing Writer The recent opening of the Daily’s Place amphitheater and the potential redevelopment of the Jacksonville Shipyards property are two examples of Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan’s efforts to expand his team’s revenue stream. “But the first example was Lon-
don,” Jaguars President Mark Lamping said Tuesday during a luncheon talk to the World Affairs Council of Jacksonville about the Jaguars’ marketing efforts in the U.K. Since 2013, the Jaguars have been playing one of their eight regularseason “home” games in London, which provides a big lift to the team’s finances. “The reason we’re interested in
London is maximizing our local revenue,” Lamping said. “Just maximizing Jacksonville is not going to get where we want to be.” Local revenue is money generated by NFL teams themselves, as opposed to national revenue from sources like the league’s TV contracts. Lamping
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Llorens seeks wetlands review for 209-acre site Miami-based property owner Ramon Llorens is asking for a wetlands determination for 209.3 acres he owns at 9595 New Berlin Court in the Dames Point area. The waterfront property is in a prime location, facing the western side of Blount Island. The Dames Point terminal is 10
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nautical miles from the Atlantic Ocean and is JaxPort’s newest marine facility. Llorens, through Amkin Dames Point LLC, bought 250 acres along New Berlin Road in 2015 and 2016. The New Berlin Court address comprises about 188 acres. The land is at southeast Heckscher Drive and Interstate 295. Llorens filed a petition for a formal determination of the landward extent of wetlands and other surface waters at the site. The district said the request was not for construction, but to establish the wetlands limits. The property’s land use is water-depen-
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dent industrial. An aerial of the property shows wetlands on the northern portion of the site. Llorens has not responded to phone calls or an email. Peacock Consulting Group LLC is listed in the application as having established the boundary line, but could not be reached Tuesday. The application is another step that Llorens has taken to assemble and define the property along the shipping channel of the St. Johns River. In September, Llorens, through Amkin Dames Point LLC, paid $7.5 million for the 188-acre parcel adjacent to 63 acres
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it bought the year before near the JaxPort Dames Point Marine Terminal. A fraction of an acre is along Irving Road. Those purchases total about 250 acres of industrial property in a prime area for water-related development. Amkin bought the largest parcel from Whitney Bank in Gulfport, Miss. Property records identified the owner as Nichols Creek Development Corp of Vidalia, Ga. That property has been reviewed for industrial development, although it’s not
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