Business Strategy: Cheryl Brown: ‘I have a go-getter personality’

Corner Lot Development Group’s proposed multifamily and commercial 1st and Main project in Historic Springfield is approved for city financial support. The Jacksonville City Council voted 19-0 on Jan. 24 to award a $7.5 million property tax and cash incentive to the 202-unit market-rate apartment project. The redevelopment agreement...

To stop a recent string of antisemitic displays, Jacksonville City Council approved legislation at midnight Jan. 25 making it illegal for anyone to project messages on private structures without the owner’s consent. The Council voted 18-1 to approve emergency Ordinance 2023-0044. It says “projections of text, graphics, logos, or...

This is a year of stabilization in the Northeast Florida building industry, according to Chris Wood, the 2023 Northeast Florida Builders Association president. He sees a year where the industry becomes more accustomed to the challenges of inflation and higher interest rates. Wood and business partner Matt Roberts started Riverside...

The JEA board of directors will hold a public hearing in February before voting on a proposal to raise the residential electric base rate by 2.72%. The board voted unanimously Jan. 24 to schedule the required hearing at its Feb. 28 meeting. JEA officials plan to raise the basic monthly...

JEA will have access to 150 megawatts of solar power produced by Florida Power & Light Co. through a five-year agreement with public power service organization The Energy Authority. The board of directors for Jacksonville’s city-owned utility voted unanimously for the $106.6 million solar agreement as part of its Jan....

Florida Department of Health, Porter Annex Building, 1217 N. Pearl St., contractor is Auld & White Constructors LLC, 2,850 square feet, laboratory renovation, $509,819. Montessori School, 10915 Baymeadows Road, No. 200, contractor is DVC3 LLC, tenant build-out, $442,746.

Industry West founders and owners Anne and Jordan England in the central amphitheater and stadium seating area at their new headquarters at 1001 Kings Ave. Jacksonville-based Industry West, an online furniture retailer, moved into its new 111-year-old headquarters after exterior work and interior rehabilitation. The central amphitheater features stadium seating...

Seller: Thomas D. Weldon and the Thomas D. Weldon Revocable Trust. About the property: Oceanfront and dune frontage Amelia Island Plantation five-story home features seven bedrooms, nine full and two half-bathrooms, theater, 6,000-bottle wine cellar, fitness and steam rooms, elevator, rooftop deck and infinity pool. ST. JOHNS. $12,216,000. 501 Ponte...

The closed San Marco Theatre is available for tenant lease. Matthew Clark, senior director at the Colliers commercial real estate company, and associates Olivia Steinemann and Sam Middlekauff are representing the 85-year-old property in historic San Marco Square. Pam Howard, property manager and agent for owner TSG Realty, said Jan....

Type: 134 residential lots in TrailMark East Parcel Phase 2 Units A & B.

The current state of the economy has many people wondering if we are heading for another housing market crash like the one we experienced in 2008. However, several key differences between the housing market today and 2008 make a crash much less likely. First, before we jump into the metrics,...