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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Vol. 104, No. 240 • One Section
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In pursuit of Amazon
Seattle-based Amazon.com wants a second north American headquarters and is inviting cities to make a pitch. This week, Jacksonville will make its bid. How will it stack up?
Amazon’s Seattle impact Amazon is building Spheres, three bulbous glass domes in the middle of its Downtown Seattle headquarters campus. The tallest of the three interconnected spheres will be 90 feet high. They will have waterfalls, a river and treehouselike spaces overlooking tropical gardens. The Spheres are scheduled to open in early 2018. Here’s how Amazon says its headquarters directly benefits Seattle’s economy: 40,000+
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acksonville Mayor Lenny Curry said the city will bid this week for Seattle-based Amazon. com’s second headquarters, an economicdevelopment project that would start with 500,000 square feet of space and grow to 8 million square feet after a decade. In September, Amazon announced it was accepting requests for proposals from metropolitan areas interested in pursuing the company’s expansion, promising a $5 billion capital investment over 15 to 17 years and 50,000 employees
with an average salary of $100,000. The bid is due Thursday, but Curry’s office is not saying what’s in it, such as the proposed sites or taxpayer incentives that would be offered. A mayor’s office spokeswoman also declined to say which entities were assisting in crafting the bid or when the city will officially submit its package to Amazon. However, JAX Chamber, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, Jacksonville Aviation Authority and city utility JEA say they are involved. Amazon
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Square feet
8.1 million
Retail within headquarters
24 restaurants/ cafes; eight other services
Capital investment
$3.7 billion
Operational expenditures
$1.4 billion
Employee compensation
$25.7 billion
Annual hotel nights booked 233,000 by Amazonians, guests Paid into city public transportation system as benefit to employees Source: Amazon HQ2 request for proposals Image special to the Daily Record
New shopping center for Duval-St. Johns
38-acre Bartram Market slated for grocery store, shops and outparcels. Northern St. Johns and Southern Duval counties are in store for a 38-acre commercial development at
Public
northwest Race Track Road and Bartram Park Boulevard. Eastland Partners proposes Bartram Market. A drainage plan for Dodson the development shows a line of stores anchored by a 45,600-square-foot grocery store and 33,000 square feet of shop space. Plans show 10 outparcels of 0.88 to 2.04 acres. Eastland expects to start the project
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next year and complete it in mid-2019. “The development is based on the strong need for commercial retail, services and restaurants in St. Johns County,” said John Dodson, Eastland development manager and manager of sales and leasing. Eastland will develop the center and ground-lease the outparcels. Eastland is finalizing leases, he said. He expects to sign restaurants, a gas station and other commercial retailers. Plans were filed with an applicaMathis
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$43 million
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