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Gate Hospitality Group per- Record & Observmanently laider off 141 employees and temporarily furloughed more than 700 at four Northeast Flori- da resort and hospitality properties, according to a notification filed with the state. JACKSONVILLE The layoffs affected employees at two oceanfront properties – the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club and the Lodge & Club at Ponte Vedra Beach. The other venues are the Epping Forest Yacht & Country Club and Record & ObservThe River Club.er “Sorrowfully, in early April, Gate Hospitality Group was forced to furlough a number of its employees as a result of government mandated closures and a decline in business resulting from COVID-19 stay-at-home orders,” Gate spokeswoman Misty Skip- per said by email. “Thankfully, the majority of these furloughs are temporary and we are currently resuming operations and bringing employ- Special to the Daily Record ees back to work,” she said. From left, Load King Manufacturing Co. leadership Charles Chupp, president; Kyle Manning, controller; Phil Black, executive director, client services; A total of 735 workers were tem- Tanner Franklin, executive director, manufacturing and supply chain; Ken Carella, executive director, business development; and Chad Grimm, chief porarily furloughed with the largest operations officer. number, 486, at the Ponte Vedra Inn & Club resort, according to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS masks and infrared conveyors to sanitize Starbucks and AMC Theatres, among Notification Act notice. EDITOR equipment. other well-known names. The company also furloughed Baptist chose a different supplier, but it Load King’s 300,000-square-foot 109 employees at the Lodge & he week of March 9, lead- set Load King on another track. manufacturing and distribution plant at Club, 97 at Epping Forest and 43 ership at Load King Man- “It got our wheels spinning,” Grimm 1357 W. Beaver St., west of Downtown, at the River Club. ufacturing Co. retooled said. employs 180 people. The Inn had the largest num- its strategy. Jacksonville-based Load King, started The single location includes metal and ber of permanent layoffs, 87. “It all started with a in 1958, designs, fabricates, delivers and wood shops, graphics and signage, and The Lodge laid off 24 employees, phone conversation with installs retail store, supermarket, restau- also provides full project management Epping Forest laid off 21 and the TBaptist Hospital,” said Chad Grimm, rant and other interiors, equipment and for its brands, including in-house design River Club laid off nine. Load King chief operations officer. fixtures throughout the United States. and permitting, tenant improvements The hospitality business is part The Jacksonville-based health system It also provides services for the medical and service and warranty. of Gate Petroleum Co. asked for guidance about keeping staff and hospital industries. safe during the pandemic and sought face It ships nationwide for brands like SEE LOAD KING, PAGE 4 [email protected]

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18.8-acre site, which now has a THE MATHIS REPORT MORRIS five-story, 55,500-square-foot office building and an adjacent PROPERTY 223,000-square-foot produc- A conceptual tion facility that included the plan of the newsroom, advertising offices redeveloped and the printing press func- Morris property tions. There also is a parking at 1 Riverside Ave. lot and deck and some small shows McCoys structures. Creek uncovered Grinalds said in early 2019 KAREN BRUNE MATHIS from the St. that the Morrises know they EDITOR Johns River. have a key piece of property, which the family bought in Morris says partnership 1982 with the newspaper. with city is “linchpin” “They don’t want to leave a vacant industrial site on the for moving forward river,” he said. with plans for Riverside The family sold the newspaper in October 2017 and Avenue property. retained the property, which is “The engineering for any we view the property.” “They have plans for what west of the Acosta Bridge along Ownership of the Times- contemplated demolition of Grinalds was responding to they would like to see on the the Northbank Riverwalk. Union building at 1 Riverside the buildings is fairly complex remarks made by Downtown site from a redevelopment The Morris property is Ave. still is several steps and and we are hopeful the city will Investment Authority CEO standpoint,” she said. within the DIA boundaries, city decisions from razing the continue to work with us as we Lori Boyer in an April 27 vid- Boyer said McCoys Creek raising the option of incentives riverfront structure. examine options for daylight- eoconference meeting of the probably will have some recre- to assist in the redevelopment. When it does take down the ing McCoys Creek,” said Allen Meninak Club of Jacksonville. ational boating access. Grinalds and land-use law- buildings, the Morris family of Grinalds, director of real estate A club member asked Boyer “I just don’t know that you yer Steve Diebenow have been Augusta, Georgia, envisions a for Morris Communications, in about the vacated Times- will have enough width to get talking with the city about mixed-use project. an email May 4. Union buIlding and the to a docking space up by the infrastructure at the property The most recent conceptual “Our partnership with COJ “daylighting” – uncovering – of convention center. You’ll have and the city’s part in uncover- site plan shows hotel, retail, is the linchpin for us mov- McCoys Creek, which flows some physical access to that ing the waterway. Diebenow is office and multifamily uses. ing forward to provide a great toward the Prime F. Osborn III location but I think at this a partner with Driver, McAfee, The Morrises are considering redevelopment of the site that Convention Center. point the surface of the creek is Hawthorne & Diebenow. 300,000 square feet of office will serve the interests of all “There are definitely plans to either going to be 60 feet wide The creek is part of the space, a 200-room hotel and stakeholders,” he said. open the creek once they pro- or 42 feet wide and with the Emerald Trail string of water- 400-500 multifamily units. Grinalds said Morris continues ceed with the redevelopment. slope of the bank, the concern ways and green space that Those plans hinge on moves to “move forward in discussions And I think that in the early is that it’s going to be pretty Downtown advocates want to uncover McCoys Creek, with the city for the redevelop- March schedule, we were envi- limited on the number of ves- to develop as an amenity to which runs through the prop- ment of the subject property.” sioning that the demolition sels that could be in there at encircle Downtown. erty. The Florida Times-Union He acknowledged that would occur within the next the same time,” she said. operated at the site from 1967 COVID-19 “has obviously been few months, that the owners “But we will have some, KMATHIS@ until the staff of the daily news- a distraction for everyone, but of the property were mov- that’s for sure.” JAXDAILYRECORD.COM paper moved in April 2019 to the fundamentals have not ing forward with that,” Boyer The Morris family has been @MATHISKB Wells Fargo Center Downtown. changed with respect to how responded. deciding what to do with the (904) 356-2466

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QUICK REACTION Load King realized it wasn’t Load King immune to the economic impact CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 of the coronavirus, so it acted quickly, Grimm said. “We are truly turnkey,” Grimm It reduced employee hours for a said. “Our value proposition few weeks, but that was it. “Hours is total project control, which are back up and we are actually in translates to quality, timeliness overtime right now making up for and being able to provide servic- that initial reduction,” he said. es that others aren’t as efficient “We acted early and quickly,” at, which is especially beneficial he said. with multilocation rollouts.” Here’s how. “We saw the effects initially. “HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?” We went through strategic plan- As customers reacted to the ning, resource planning and read- COVID-19 pandemic, Load King justing our annual corporate goals sought to help. first,” Grimm said. “Because everything slowed “After we balanced the work- down, it gave us an opportunity load, we were able to step back to move into personal protec- and say, what product or prod- tion offerings,” Grimm said. “It ucts can we offer to help the situ- started with a question, how can ation?” we help you?” Load King proactively procured Load King quickly stocked up on what it thought it might need. raw materials before they became “We took a leap of faith and hard to find to make acrylic bar- brought in a significant amount riers, drive-thru protections, of raw materials,” he said. side shields for hospitals and the “Thankfully we did because medical industry, sanitation sta- these raw materials are getting Special to the Daily Record tions, washbasins and graphics harder to come by.” Load King Manufacturing designs, fabricates, delivers and installs retail store, supermarket, restaurant and other for social distancing. The company retooled design interiors, equipment and fixtures for chains such as Starbucks and AMC Theatres. “We don’t just offer products. and manufacturing processes. We can offer ideas and we can “While we don’t make masks, customize solutions to specific gowns and shields, we can buy “We are all in this together fig- The expansion will serve exist- that allowed the city to sell two needs,” Grimm said. and resell these items because of uring out what is going to work.” ing customers and allow Load parcels totaling 1.96 acres at “We are more partnership- our importing sources,” Grimm King to move into new industries. Union Street and Myrtle Avenue and service-oriented rather than said. STRATEGY TO EXPAND “We are seeing commercial to Load King for $324,000, the being a product manufacturer,” Its customers are preparing for Load King intends to expand projects, restaurants and hotels appraised value of the property. he said. phased reopening nationwide. by up to 100,000 square feet of being built,” he said. “We pride It relocated a Head Start facil- Load King, whose tagline is Some activity continued, such as distribution and manufacturing ourselves in staying ahead of ity to a new location, with the “King of Innovation,” is talking Starbucks construction, although space. trends and needs, so this is anoth- city using half of the purchase with Duval County Public Schools the coffee shop chain expan- In February, it bought about er move to get us into new brands.” price and Load King contributing and Florida State University, sion slowed with permitting and 2 acres next to its Rail Yard Dis- As a privately held company, $70,000 to assist with that move. among other institutions, about inspection. trict headquarters from the city, Load King does not publicly dis- The legislation says Load King developing safety protocols. Grimm said the customers’ Grimm said. close revenue, he said. intends to purchase and redevel- For FSU, Load King wants to outlooks range from “anxious to Load King rezoned the prop- Load King owns 12.23 acres and op the property to construct new help the campus adapt its food- reopen to optimistic to reopen.” erty with the city and is vacating the purchase expands its property warehousing and shipping facili- service and athletic facilities. He said some restaurant clients a street. to 14.3 acres. ties, including a new cross-dock AMC asked Load King for a remained open in other capaci- Grimm said Load King antici- The plant comprises four shipping facility that will allow quote after the manufacturer ties, such as drive-thru, carryout, pates designing the project by the buildings constructed since 1919. Load King to expand its com- developed an idea booklet. Star- curbside pickup and delivery. fall and breaking ground in late It uses about 250,000 square feet mercial kitchen resale division, bucks and grocery companies Grimm said restaurant clients 2021. He didn’t project a comple- for manufacturing and 50,000 resulting in additional jobs at the have responded similarly. expect to resume full operations tion date. square feet for shipping. Load King facility. “The products are evolving the in the June-August time frame, The size will depend on the The city rezoned 0.89 acres at At minimum, Grimm said more we talk with them,” Grimm depending on the company. layout and accommodating the 1314 W. Union St., at southwest Load King will add 12 jobs, but he said. Theater clients are targeting manufacturing flow. Union Street and Myrtle Avenue expects more. The Jacksonville Aviation mid-June to start reopening. “The advantage is that new North, next to Load King. Load King’s website says the Authority put in a purchase order In the meantime, Load King space allows us to expand our City Council enacted Ordi- company started in 1958 when for protective shields, he said. wants to help now and later. offerings,” he said. nance 2019-0135-E on May 28 James Merrill Chupp retired from Winn-Dixie and started S.E. Sales Co., an equipment consolidator servicing the supermarket industry. It continues to be led by the Chupp family. Charles Chupp is LOAD KING president. Load King The property was Winn-Dixie’s Manufacturing Co.’s headquarters before it moved 300,000-square- and had expanded to more than foot manufacturing 200,000 square feet of produc- and distribution tion space by the time Load King plant at 1357 W. moved in. Beaver St., west of The company has operated as Downtown. Load King since 1972.

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BY SCOTT SAILER • STAFF WRITER Here are the top 10 commercial real estate sales in Northeast Florida, comprising Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties. File image The sales were recorded May 4-10. The office and industrial building at 8160 Baymeadows Way W. in Deerwood Center sold for $4.86 million.

DUVAL ST. JOHNS DUVAL DUVAL DUVAL $4,860,000 $3,020,128 $1,875,000 $1,800,000 $975,000 8160 Baymeadows Way W. Hampsted Court, Watervale Corporate Square Court, 3650 Philips Highway, 6347 Philips Highway, and Philips Highway, Drive and Pine Bluff Drive, Jacksonville Jacksonville Jacksonville Jacksonville St. Augustine Type: Commercial and Type: Undeveloped industrial Type: Commercial Industrial Office and industrial 51 residential lots in 20.16 acres 2.79 acres Type: Type: Parcel size: Parcel size: Parcel size: 1.42 acres 9.28 acres Meadow Ridge, Holly Forest Sawyer’s Preserve Aldi Florida LLC Parcel size: Buyer: Buyer: Building size: 9,600 square Building size: 50,000 square and Holly Forest Townhomes LLC Seller: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. feet feet Not available M&K Properties of Parcel size: Seller: Buyer: Pamela S. Frady Baymeadows Charter Dream Finders Jacksonville LLC Buyer: Buyer: Seller: Seekonk Holding Corp. Property LLC Homes LLC Previous sale: $1,217,300 in Seller: Parkwood LLC Seller: JEN Florida 37 LLC 2011 Previous sale: $3,612,845 in 1990

ST. JOHNS ST. JOHNS DUVAL NASSAU DUVAL $866,970 $600,000 $525,150 $472,257 $400,000 Pine Bluff Drive, 2915 County Road 214, 4607 Arapahoe Ave. and Village Walk, 5174 W. Beaver St., St. Augustine St. Augustine 4216 Chippewa Drive, Fernandina Beach Jacksonville Jacksonville Type: 19 residential lots in Type: Easement Type: Seven residential lots Type: Light industrial Holly Forest Townhomes Parcel size: Not available Type: Residential in Village Walk Phase Two Parcel size: 0.94 acres Parcel size: Not available Buyer: Northland Services Parcel size: 0.49 acres Parcel size: Not available Building size: 21,000 square Buyer: Dream Finders Inc. Buyer: Renovate Jax LLC Buyer: D.R. Horton Inc. feet Homes LLC Seller: FirstCoast Seller: Edwin H. Graves Trust Seller: Patriot Ridge LLP Buyer: JMG Counters LLC Seller: JEN Florida 37 LLC Metropolitan Community Indenture and the Joseph B. Seller: Eelbeck Investments Church Inc. Graves Living Trust Inc.

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