FRIDAY January 10, 2020 PUBLIC LEGAL jaxdailyrecord.com • 35 cents NOTICES BEGIN ON PAGE 4 JACKSONVILLE Daily Record THE MATHIS REPORT ROBERT SHIRCLIFF: JACKSONVILLE 1928-2020 End isDail near fory old Re fire stationcord JACKSONVILLE File image Community and business leader Robert Shircliff died Jan. 2. Daily Record‘Nobody wouldn’t take JACKSONVILLE Bob’s calls’ Donor, fundraiser and File image business leader is Fire Station No. 5 at 374Dail Riverside Ave. in Brooklyn will be torn down becausey the city didRe not find someone to buy andco move the structure. rdremembered for his integrity, ethics and tion Services Inc. at 323 Riverside Ave. realignment of Forest Street across Riv- listening. Croft said the demolition will be done erside Avenue. by a company with “an existing Con- The realignment is designed to BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS tinuous Contractor City contract.” improve access to Sidney J. Gefen Riv- EDITOR Preparations are underway. The city erwalk Park and the FIS headquarters, issued a permit Jan. 3 for Touchton which expects to break ground in the Community and business lead- Plumbing Contractors Inc. to discon- second quarter. er Robert Shircliff, for whom a nect water and sewer at the site for Boyer told DIA board members Dec. street is named that captures his demolition subcontractor Arwood 18 she “was really disappointed” that no motto, died Jan. 2 at the age of 91. Waste Management. proposals came in. A vigil is scheduled the evening The Downtown Investment Authority The fire station is not designated as his- of Jan. 12 and services are planned KAREN BRUNE MATHIS approved a notice of disposition Nov. toric and is considered blight by the city. Jan. 13. EDITOR 13 to give a 30-day window to anyone Built in 1910, the building was used Known for his support of Jack- interested in buying and relocating until 2008, when the city relocated the sonville causes, Shircliff was a Brooklyn structure will make the 7,152-square-foot structure but service to 234 Forest St. donor and fundraiser as well as a way for a road alignment for received no responses. In December, Alan Bliss, director of successful businessman. The notice allowed potential buyers to the Jacksonville Historical Society, said “When you can change lives access to the new $145 million submit a business plan to the city that the building may not have a historic with a little bit of time and a little FIS headquarters. included the expected return on invest- designation but could be eligible by U.S. bit of money, that makes a happy ment and projected tax revenue. They Department of Interior guidelines. day,” he said in a 2013 interview. could request city funding to assist with The building has been on the his- Business partner Richard Sisis- No one bid to rescue it, so the vacant a proposal. torical society’s Jacksonville’s annual ky worked with Shircliff for 32 110-year-old Fire Station No. 5 in At the time, DIA CEO Lori Boyer said endangered buildings list for more than years. Brooklyn is starting to come down this Hygema House Movers & Foundation a decade. “He lived a righteous and a just month, the city reports. Repairs estimated it would cost about Bliss said he spoke with people who life,” said Sisisky, president of The James Croft, city assistant director of $500,000 to move the fire station a few do not want the building demolished Shircliff & Sisisky Co., a consul- public affairs, said work on the demoli- blocks. DIA preferred a move within the but who didn’t “seem to have the tant to Pepsi bottlers and beer tion of the building at 347 Riverside Ave. area. financial capacity to mount any type of wholesalers. will take place by the end of January. The notice closed Dec. 16 with no rescue.” Shircliff was known for his The structure is in the path of road responses. That left it up to the city catchphrase: “There’s no right realignment needed for access to the Department of Public Works, which [email protected] way to do the wrong thing,” which $145 million riverfront headquarters to plans to clear the property by March @MATHISKB be built for Fidelity National Informa- to remain on schedule for the planned (904) 356-2466 SEE SHIRCLIFF, PAGE 2 Butler Plaza sold for $37.9M Greenfield Partners LLC sold its third Jacksonville property in December as San Francisco-based TPG Real Estate Partners Investments LLC paid $37.9 million for Butler Plaza along Belfort Road in a sale executed Dec. 20. It is the TPG’s second Greenfield acquisition in Southside since Dec. 17. Butler Plaza comprises three buildings totaling almost 262,000 square feet of space on 16.9 acres at 4875, 4887 and 4899 Belfort Road in South Jacksonville. The structures were built in 1999, 2001 and 2008. VOLUME 107, NO. 38 • ONE SECTION 2 JACKSONVILLE DAILY RECORD | FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2020 JaxDailyRecord.com These are the largest commercial Avis Car Sales, 10520 Atlantic Blvd., building permits by job cost issued contractor is Nine Enterprises Inc., Wednesday by the city of Jacksonville. wall sign, $4,150. Mavis Tires and Brakes at Discount APARTMENTS Prices, 13958 Village Lake Circle, Presidium at Town Center contractor is International C&C Corp., Apartments, 7738 AC Skinner two permits for wall signs, $3,700. 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Editorial content focuses on news and trends, with a concentration on development, Ducky’s Car Wash, 4553 Sunbeam real estate, construction, law, companies, economic and industry trends and how local Road, contractor is Nine Enterprises Compiled by Scott Sailer and state government affects business. Inc., ground sign, $5,985. STAFF Publisher / Matt Walsh Director of Advertising / Jay Lesowitz [email protected] [email protected] “You learned how to listen. You Publisher Emeritus / James F. Bailey Jr. Advertising Coordinator / Codi Gildberg learned how to respond, you learned [email protected] [email protected] Shircliff how to muster your thoughts, you Editor / Karen Brune Mathis Legal Advertising Manager / Janet Mohr CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 learned how to treat people with [email protected] [email protected] respect, you learned how to incorpo- Managing Editor / Monty Zickuhr Legal Advertising Associate / Rhonda Fisher rate integrity and ethics into every- [email protected] [email protected] is reflected in the street address for thing you do.” / Max Marbut Associate Editor Legal Affairs Network Administrator / Erik Wagner Ascension St. Vincent’s Riverside: 1 He intends to maintain the compa- [email protected] [email protected] Shircliff Way. ny name. “Linking my name with Bob / Katie Garwood Staff Writer Court Typeset / Paula Steiner Shircliff supported causes that Shircliff,” Sisisky said, “what a treat.” [email protected] [email protected] included Ascension St. Vincent’s, the Shircliff grew up in Vincennes, Indi- Staff Writer / Mike Mendenhall Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, ana, and in 1950 graduated from Indiana [email protected] Director of Circulation / Anne Shumate [email protected] the Jacksonville Symphony, Jackson- University, where he met his wife, Carol. Staff Writer / Scott Sailer ville University, United Way of North- His father, a veteran of World War I, [email protected] Distribution / Tim Reagan east Florida, the Catholic Diocese of [email protected] expanded a basket-weaving business Business Manager / Angie Campbell St. Augustine, The Guardian Catholic into one of the country’s largest flo- [email protected] Schools and others. ral display manufacturing companies Shircliff was a donor and consid- until the Great Depression. ered a master fundraiser because he On a summer family vacation to PRESS RELEASE/INQUIRY/REPRINTS made people comfortable about giving, Michigan, his father saw a Pepsi-Cola Sisisky said. in the cooler at a service station. Submit a press release or editorial inquiry online “You never minded talking to Bob “I came out with this Pepsi and I jaxdailyrecord.com/submit-news-release or email [email protected].