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FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 2018

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Entertainment complex planned next to stadium

Greencore renovating Tradeport food plant Company makes sandwiches, salads and other entrees sold in supermarkets and convienience stores. Greencore USA intends to renovate its food preparation plant at 13949 Alvarez Road in Creekside Distribution Center in Jacksonville International Tradeport. Reeves Insulation Inc. is the contractor for the $1.56 million project to renovate 19,200 square feet for production improvements and a facility update. Greencore’s total tenant area is more than 62,000 square feet, plans show. Greencore USA is a subsidiary of Greencore Group, an Irelandbased food preparation company. In Jacksonville it makes sushi, sandwiches, green-leaf salads and ready-to-cook entrees for clients such as 7-Eleven, Trader Joe’s and Publix Super Markets Inc., according to city documents. Greencore bought the Jacksonville plant through its purchase in 2012 of Chicago-based H.C. Schau & Son Inc., a thirdgeneration maker and distributor of fresh foods with facilities in Woodridge, Illinois, and Jacksonville.

TRANSFORMING LOT J INTO AN ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX

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Jaguars President Mark Lamping expects work on project to begin by mid-2019. By David Cawton Staff Writer The redevelopment of the Shipyards property along the Downtown Northbank won’t begin on the riverfront, Jacksonville Jaguars President Mark Lamping said Thursday. Lamping told the International Council of Shopping Centers North Florida Idea Exchange at EverBank Field that Jaguars

Jacksonville Jaguars President Mark Lamping said the idea to develop an entertainment complex where Lot J sits next to EverBank Field came from assisting the city with the submission it made to Amazon.com to land the online retail giant’s second North American headquarters, shown in the artist’s rendering below.

owner Shad Khan’s development company, Iguana Investments of Florida, will likely start construction of an entertainment venue in a stadium parking lot. “If we’re really going to bring about something that’s transformative, it can’t be limited to the 70 acres along the St. Johns River,” said Lamping, referring to the Shipyards and Metropolitian Park LAMPING

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Haskell: What the DIA is seeking for convention center goes too far He offers insight from 2011 task force he led on creating a center. By Max Marbut Associate Editor On Jan. 17, the Downtown Investment Authority voted unanimously to solicit bids for the disposition of the former City Hall and Duval County Courthouse for development of a convention center, hotel and parking garage. For Preston Haskell, founder of

The Haskell Co., the possibility of considering a convention center on the site along East Bay Street adjacent to the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront hotel is a case of been there, done that. And it was done seven years ago. On Feb. 1, 2011, the Jacksonville Civic Council’s Northbank Redevelopment Task Force, chaired by Haskell, delivered its report on

the future of the property owned by the city along East Bay Street between Newnan Street and Metropolitan Park. In addition to Haskell, the task force comprised Baptist Health System CEO and President Hugh Greene; Steve Halverson, president and CEO of The Haskell Co.; attorneys Robert Rhodes HASKELL

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Preston Haskell, founder of the design-build firm The Haskell Co., and developer Peter Rummell present the Northbank Redevelopment Task Force report Feb. 1, 2011.

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