DIA to Consider New Lavilla Town House Partnership
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WEDNESDAY March 10, 2021 PUBLIC jaxdailyrecord.com • 35 cents LEGAL NOTICES BEGIN ON PAGE 3 JACKSONVILLE Daily Record REAL ESTATE JACKSONVILLE DIA toDail considery newRe LaVillacord town house partnership Photo by Karen Brune Mathis The Omni Jacksonville Hotel was sold Feb. 25 and will transition from JACKSONVILLE the system. Prism Hotels & Resorts to Daily Recordmanage Omni Jacksonville JACKSONVILLE Dallas-based Prism has 14 job openings, including in Jacksonville, listed on its website. Daily RecordBY MAX MARBUT ASSOCIATE EDITOR Prism Hotels & Resorts, based in Dallas, is the new manager of the Omni Jacksonville Hotel and other Omni properties that were sold Feb. 25. Job listings on Prism’s website include: n General manager, food and beverage manager, director of housekeeping and assistant front office manager at the Omni in Special to the Daily Record Jacksonville. Johnson Commons plans to keep the historically influenced design it proposed in 2019 for the town house project in LaVilla. n General manager, director of sales and marketing, director of revenue optimization and direc- Vestcor dropped its project; Downtown community, but a partner- income projects. It’s not their expertise tor of engineering at the Omni ship of JWB Real Estate Capital and Cor- or their niche,” Boyer said. “But they Westside in Houston. JWB Capital and Corner Lot ner Lot Development is interested in the really wanted to do it and are engaged n Director of housekeeping, are interested in the site. site. Downtown.” director of sales and marketing The city narrowly selected Vestcor for Ryan Hoover is president of Vestcor and accounting coordinator at the the project over JWB and Corner Lot in subsidiary TVC Development Inc. and Omni Southpark in Austin, Texas. BY MIKE MENDENHALL 2019. worked on the company’s town house n General manager, director of STAFF WRITER DIA CEO Lori Boyer said March 5 that pitch. sales and marketing and director Vestcor informed her in November the He said March 5 that Vestcor’s deci- of revenue optimization at the The Vestcor Companies Inc. has company was no longer interested in sion to return the land to the city and end Omni Park West in Dallas. abandoned plans to build town houses the development after several months of the project was market-driven because “We currently manage more in LaVilla, but the project could gain a delays. The company returned the 3.45- of the pandemic and the company did than 25 premier hotels for entre- familiar new developer. acre parcel adjacent to Lift Ev’ry Voice not want to slow the city’s goal to rede- preneurs and institutional and Documents released March 5 by the and Sing Park to the city. velop the property. private owners, including a range Downtown Investment Authority state “Vestcor’s been very upfront about “We were ready to go. Then COVID of high-end urban, suburban and Vestcor will not proceed with the 88 it. They do mostly for-rent products for-sale town houses it planned for the and most of it is mixed-income or low- SEE LAVILLA, PAGE 2 SEE OMNI, PAGE 2 Stellar built the engineering plant of the year Jacksonville-based Stellar designed and built the $200 million, 315,000-square-foot Cuisine Solutions sous vide processing facility in San Antonio that Food Engi- neering magazine named the 2021 Sustainable Food Plant of the Year. The facility can continuously cook and chill up to 500,000 pounds of beef and other products per day via the French slow-cooking method. VOLUME 108, NO. 80 • ONE SECTION 2 JACKSONVILLE DAILY RECORD | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 2021 JaxDailyRecord.com JaxDailyRecord.comJACKSONVILLE DAILY RECORD / JACKSONVILLE RECORD & OBSERVER | THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 1 team plans an $18 million investment for the town houses. LaVilla Sifakis said he does not have a cost esti- CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 mate for the second phase retail. The Johnson Commons developers hit and, obviously, our focus changed want a restaurant in the second phase, as at that time,” Hoover said. “We weren’t well as neighborhood services like a hair JACKSONVILLE JACKSONVILLE comfortable doing a for-sale product salon and a dry cleaner. down there. That doesn’t mean it won’t The development team considers retail be successful. We think they’ll (Johnson near the Jacksonville Transportation Daily Record Daily Record Commons) get it done and be successful. Authority’s Jacksonville Regional Trans- “We want it to get done, it’s just not portation Center critical for LaVilla’s going to be us,” he said. long-term viability, Sifakis said. The DIA board’s Retail Enhancement HOW TO REACH US HOW TO REACHJACK USSONVILLE JOHNSON COMMONS and Property Disposition Committee is 121 W. Forsyth St., Suite 150, Jacksonville, FL, 32202 121 W. Forsyth St., Suite 150, Jacksonville, FL, 32202 JWB and Corner Lot are proposing scheduled to vote March 15 on issuing a Phone: (904) 356-2466, Fax (904) 353-2628 Phone: (904) 356-2466, Fax (904) 353-2628 Johnson Commons, a minimum of 91 30-day notice of disposition for the prop- Daily Record three-story town houses, according to erty bounded by Adams, Johnson, Lee and jaxdailyrecord.com jaxdailyrecord.com the board committee documents. The Forsyth streets. units will be about 1,400 square feet with The full board likely will vote on the ABOUT US ABOUT USJACKSONVILLE a one-car garage. notice March 17. The DIA calculates the development Boyer said that notice is required to Jacksonville Daily Record and Jacksonville Record & Observer are a division of Jacksonville Daily Record and Jacksonville Record & Observer are a division of can support homes priced at $243,100 solicit any similar development interest Observer Media Group Inc. ObserverDail Media Group Inc. y Record “absent significant market growth.” in the property before the board can vote Johnson Commons also proposes a on a contract with Johnson Commons. Established in 1912, the Financial News & Daily Record, now the Jacksonville Daily Established in 1912, the Financial News & Daily Record, now the Jacksonville Daily JACKSONVILLE minimum 10,000-square-foot retail sec- Record, is published Monday-Friday and is the Official Court Newspaper of the Circuit Record, is published Monday-Friday and is the Official Court Newspaper of the Circuit ond phase at Lee and Forsyth streets. DESIGN WILL REMAIN Court and publisher of public notices in Duval County. Court and publisher of public notices in Duval County. DIA documents say the second phase The DIA board selected Vestcor’s town could include multifamily residential. house proposal in August 2019. The com- Jacksonville Record & Observer is a free weekly business newspaper available in JacksonvilleDail Record & Observery is aRe free weekly businessco newspaperrd available in The second phase would begin con- pany had the highest overall score of three Downtown Jacksonville and key business nodes throughout Jacksonville. To find a Downtown Jacksonville and key business nodes throughout Jacksonville. To find a struction within seven years of closing on bids submitted. location near you, visit jaxdailyrecord.com/rack-locations. location near you, visit jaxdailyrecord.com/rack-locations. the property, according to the proposed The 5-2 split vote among the DIA board agreement. members came from the preferred inclu- Editorial content focuses on news and trends, with a concentration on development, Editorial content focuses on news and trends, with a concentration on development, “In the interim, this portion of the site sion of retail and historic LaVilla shotgun- real estate, construction, law, companies, economic and industry trends and how local real estate, construction, law, companies, economic and industry trends and how local will be developed as green space acces- style design cues from the second-ranked and state government affects business. and state government affects business. sible to the adjacent Emerald Trail and proposal by Johnson Commons. maintained by the Developer,” the DIA Vestcor did alter its house designs to STAFF STAFF documents state. include gabled roofs but did not commit Publisher / Matt Walsh Director of Advertising / Jay Lesowitz Publisher / Matt Walsh Director of Advertising / Jay Lesowitz The deal would keep a required mon- to retail. City Council approved the deal [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] etary donation to the historic Lift Ev’ry in January 2020. Publisher Emeritus / James F. Bailey Jr. Advertising Coordinator / Codi Gildberg Publisher Emeritus / James F. Bailey Jr. Advertising Coordinator / Codi Gildberg Voice and Sing Park. Johnson Commons Sifakis said the latest plans for Johnson [email protected] [email protected] has offered a $150,000 cash contribution Commons keep the historically influ- [email protected] [email protected] and will pay to install eight LaVilla heri- enced designs. Editor / Karen Brune Mathis Legal Advertising Manager / Janet Mohr Editor / Karen Brune Mathis Legal Advertising Manager / Janet Mohr [email protected] [email protected] tage signs. The DIA board could vote on the John- [email protected] [email protected] The DIA documents say Johnson Com- son Commons project in April if the city Managing Editor / Monty Zickuhr Legal Advertising Associate / Rhonda Fisher Managing Editor / Monty Zickuhr Legal Advertising Associate / Rhonda Fisher [email protected] [email protected] mons would take ownership of the site at receives no other competitive bids.