Daily Record Financial News &
Tuesday, July 11, 2017
Vol. 104, No. 170 • One Section
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Long line for Amazon jobs
Photo by David Cawton
Amazon job-seekers line up Monday outside the Legends Center on Soutel Drive. The internet retailer is filling 1,500 positions at a new fulfillment center in Northwest Jacksonville near the Jacksonville International Airport.
People wait for hours in the heat to apply at online giant’s first job fair. By David Cawton Staff Writer Hundreds of applicants showed up before noon Monday at the first of six Jacksonville job fairs to fill positions at Amazon.com’s Northwest Jacksonville fulfillment center. They waited hours on Monday, but a year overall. On July 27, Amazon announced it would create more than 1,500 jobs in Jacksonville at the first fulfillment center in the city, at 12900 Pecan Park Road in Northwest Jacksonville. The JAX Chamber called the internet retailer’s plans the largest single jobs
announcement in Jacksonville’s history. When the doors opened at 10 a.m. at the Legends Center at 5130 Soutel Drive, people were lined up around the building. Amazon needs to fill about 1,500 fulltime positions at the multilevel, 2.4 million-square-foot fulfillment center that will handle small consumer items. Amazon expects to open the center about September. Applicant Jeannie Williams of North Jacksonville said at 11:30 a.m. that she had spent two hours waiting in the heat. “If you’re willing to apply for the job, you’ve got to be willing to wait it out,” she Jobs
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Amazon installing $2.5M racking system at Cecil Internet retailer building-out second fulfillment center.
retailer to install a storage rack system at its Cecil Commerce Center fulfillment center at a construction cost of almost $2.5 million. Plans show an extensive racking system at the 13333 103rd St. warehouse. Hannibal Industries Inc. of Los Angeles is the rack manufacturer. Amazon will use the Westside center, which is in Hillwood Investment Properties’ AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce
By Karen Brune Mathis Editor Amazon.com is working toward completion of its Westside fulfillment center as it starts hiring this week for its first warehouse in Northwest Jacksonville. The city is reviewing a permit application for the e-commerce
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Pet Supermarket adds another location to growth surge
Sunrise-based Pet Supermarket Inc. is adding another store in Jacksonville. The pet-supplies chain intends to open at 9041 Southside Blvd. in Southside
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Square, according to a pending building permit application. Plans show tenant build-out for Pet Supermarket in 8,000 square feet of space near Target and Aldi. It would be the chain’s seventh in Duval County. Pet Supermarket operates four stores in Jacksonville and Jacksonville Beach. Two more are coming soon to Village Commons at 4490 Southside Blvd. and Landmark Station at 12740 Atlantic Blvd.
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Pet Supermarkets are smaller than the average Petco and PetSmart stores.
Southpoint Suites Buildings I and II sold Keith Goldfaden and Daniel Burkhardt of NAI Hallmark Partners announced Monday they represented the seller in the sale of Southpoint Suites Buildings I and II. Southpoint Suites, in Southpoint Busi-
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ness Park, consists of 48,808 square feet among two buildings. A private investor acquired the property for $2.6 million and plans to continue operating the property as executive office suites, NAI Hallmark said. NAI Hallmark said Southpoint Suites was purchased by an investor as part of a 1031 exchange because the property offered in-place income in a desirable
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