Daily Record Financial News &
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Vol. 104, No. 210 • One Section
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Art Walk moving indoors
File photo by Max Marbut
The artists who usually sell their wares at Hemming Park at First Wednesday Art Walk will instead be inside The Carling at 31 W. Adams St. tonight.
Downtown event changing because of concerns about security, political demonstrations and a party atmosphere that’s hurting art sales.
By David Cawton Staff Writer First Wednesday Art Walk will move indoors tonight as organizers test a new approach to the 14-year-old Downtown Jacksonville event. It returns outdoors next month for Oktoberfest, but after that host Downtown Vision Inc. will decide whether to move it back inside. Reasons for the move to The Carling at 31 W. Adams St. tonight. include safety concerns and business opportunities for the about 150 artists and creators who display and sell their work in Hemming
Luxury Ciel apartments OK’d for construction on Southside 400 units are planned near Florida Blue. Another 400 luxury apartment units will soon rise in Southside. The city approved construction Friday for the Ciel apartments at 4929 Skyway Drive at northeast Butler and Southside boulevards. WRH Properties Inc. of St.
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Petersburg is the developer of the more than $65 million community. Summit Contracting Group Inc. is the contractor for the $38 million construction job. WRH Properties President Mark Rutledge said previously the luxury apartment project should be completed in 20 months, indicating an early 2019 opening. Site clearing for the 16.6-acre site was approved June 23. WRH Deerwood LLC paid $9.2 million for the property in Deerwood Park next to the Florida Blue campus. It bought the land from Guidewell Group Inc. and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of
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St. Vincent’s adding Regency Health Center
Florida Inc. State Farm Life Insurance Co. of Bloomington, Illinois, issued a $39.2 million mortgage to WRH Deerwood. Ciel will comprise six fourstory apartment buildings, a two-story clubhouse, a singlelevel leasing center, a single-story maintenance building and two single-story parking garages. Rutledge said there would be an 8,500 square-foot clubhouse with a resort pool, spa, fitness center, business center, pet spa, dog park, electric car-charging stations, a bike shop for storage Mathis
Park and around Downtown. Artists who are registered with Downtown Vision pay a $35 monthly setup fee and were assigned a space in Hemming Park. Other artists and vendors set up outside Downtown businesses. The nonprofit DVI produces the monthly art showcase. “Unfortunately, we’re kind of subject to whatever’s happening in Downtown,” said DVI CEO Jake Gordon.
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Fifth identified site is one of 10 proposed. By Karen Brune Mathis Editor St. Vincent’s HealthCare, which plans to open 10 Health Centers in the area, has identified a Regency area site for one of its new offices. The Jacksonville-based health system submitted engineering plans to the city for a health center of 11,519 square feet on almost 1.6 acres at 9769 Hutchinson Park Drive. That site is at Monument
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Road and Lantern Street, opposite the Gate station and near a Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Supercenter. St. Vincent’s HealthCare Media Relations Coordinator Kyle Sieg said Tuesday the center is in the permitting phase and the opening date is summer 2018. It is the fifth identified site for a Health Center in addition to Mandarin, West Jacksonville, Gate Parkway and St. Johns County. St. Vincent’s also recently applied to build a Health CenSt. Vincent’s
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