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BUSINESS & LEGAL NEWS IN BAKER, CLAY, DUVAL, NASSAU AND ST. JOHNS COUNTIES
‘A GOOD COUPLE OF DAYS’
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City leaders say EverBank’s lease renewal and Sulzbacher’s impending move will be good for Downtown Jacksonville revitalization. EVERBANK The business is renewing its lease at 301 W. Bay St. rather than relocating to the suburbs.
CITY GOVERNMENT
JAA board considering filing lawsuit against the city
RENEWS
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LEADERSHIP
SULZBACHER The homeless services campus is being built in Brentwood as it prepares to leave its Downtown headquarters.
JTA CEO Nat Ford considered for top job at Dallas transit authority PAGE 11
RELOCATES LAW AND THE COURTS BY RIC ANDERSON AND KAREN BRUNE MATHIS STAFF WRITERS
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pair of divergent news developments, one about a business deciding not to relocate and the other about Jacksonville’s main homeless shelter uprooting, combined recently in what City Council member Jimmy Peluso described
as a win for revitalization of Downtown Jacksonville. The business is EverBank, which confirmed this month it is renewing its lease at 301 W. Bay St. rather than relocating to the suburbs. The shelter is Sulzbacher, whose Peluso homeless services campus is being built in Brentwood as it prepares to leave
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its longtime Downtown headquarters. “Not only is it a good couple of days, but we also saw that in September it looks like the first of the Pearl Square properties is going to come online,” said Peluso, whose District 7 includes central Jacksonville. He spoke July 10 at a ceremonial groundbreaking for the second phase of construction on SulzbachSEE DOWNTOWN, PAGE 8
THE BASCH REPORT
Dream Finders-Beazer battle continues The Jacksonville-based homebuilder increased its offer, but both parties say they can’t agree on terms for negotiating. Dream Finders began its pursuit of Atlanta-based Beazer in February. PAGE 10
Charlie Cofer receives statewide award Fourth Judicial Circuit Public Defender Charles “Charlie” Cofer received the 2026 Steven M. Goldstein Criminal Justice Award from the Florida Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. PAGE 12 THE MATHIS REPORT
Gateway Jax to add retail spaces in Pearl Square The city is reviewing civil engineering plans for the Block N6 parking garage which would gain firstfloor retail space. PAGE 4
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