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Daily Record FINANCIAL NEWS &

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

VOL. 104, NO. 215 • TWO SECTIONS

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A PASSION FOR LIFE AND HOMEBUILDING

Domu restaurant to join The Strand Asian cafe is led by Bento partner. A partner in the Bento Group of cafes is planning a Jacksonville restaurant called Domu in The Strand at Town Center. Jimmy Tung, manager of Domu Jax LLC, wants to build-out the 2,700-square-foot Domu restaurant at a cost of $300,000 at 4852 Town Center Parkway, No. 101. Tung is a partner in the Bento developments with Johnny Tung and David Yu. Sean Nguyen and Johnny Tung are managers of Domu Orlando LLC. That restaurant serves ramen, Japanese small plates, cocktails and more. An Orlando Sentinel review described its “pan-Asian menu MATHIS

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Legislation moves money toward Hart ramp removal Mayor wants structure removed to clear path for Shipyards. By David Cawton Staff Writer Special to the Daily Record

Gene Shvetz, president and founder of Alpha Builders Group, and his wife, Marina, chief financial officer and a designer for the company. The couple married in 1998.

Award-winning luxury homebuilder Gene Shvetz, who fled the former Soviet Union as a teen, finds success in the Land of Opportunity. By Maggie FitzRoy Contributing writer Gene Shvetz first laid eyes on his wife, Marina, in a dream. It was two years before he met her, after praying to God to show him “the one” with whom he could spend the rest of his life. And she was stunningly beautiful. A devout Christian who’d fled Estonia for the United States at age 14 with his family, Shvetz looked for that lovely face everywhere.

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And then, while working a job that involved introducing Christian music to people in former Soviet Union countries, he kept hearing about a woman in Moscow he should meet. “Three people told me about her, so I said to the third one, ‘Can you get me her phone number?’” Shvetz recalls. After they spoke, he asked that she send her picture, and then he knew. He proposed after their third date. Marina Shvetz accepted and is now chief financial officer and a designer for Alpha Builders Group, a luxury homebuilding

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company Gene launched in 2012. Marina designed a luxury home called The Villa Marina in Pablo Creek Preserve, which won the Gold award in the $2.4 million to $2.5 million category in this year’s Northeast Florida Builders Association Parade of Homes. She and her husband are living the dream life he’d long envisioned and worked hard to create. They have three children: Nick, 15, Vic, 12, and Alexandra, 4. Like the Shvetz family, Alpha Builders SHVETZ

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Legislation introduced to City Council last week moves $1.5 million into Mayor Lenny Curry’s Capital Improvement Program to “modify” the Hart Bridge Expressway. It’s nearly a year since Curry announced he wants to see the ramp to the bridge from Downtown taken down. If approved, the $1.5 million would be moved from a general fund pension contingency fund to the capital projects subfund. According to the legislative fact sheet, the money will be used for surveying, geotechnical investigations and preparation of a “design criteria package.” The project would remove the expressway ramp, grading it RAMP

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