A year after completing its initial public offering, Jacksonville-based EverBank Financial Corp. held its first annual shareholders meeting Thursday, giving Chairman and CEO Robert Clements a chance to tout a number of accomplishments in the bank's past 12 months as a public company.

"2012 was a historic and transformative year for EverBank as we executed on our strategic plans, raised...

The City Parks & Recreation Department took over Hemming Plaza on Thursday morning to begin preparing for the Jacksonville Jazz Festival. Hundreds of live plants and flowers were installed along with tents and decorations for the three-day outdoor music event. Eleven acts are scheduled to perform on the

“Groovin’ Stage” in the plaza near the Skyway station beginning today...

Lender Processing Services Inc.'s annual shareholders meeting Thursday morning opened on an unusual note.

By coincidence, the meeting was held just hours after the Wall Street Journal broke the story that Fidelity National Financial Inc. was in talks to reacquire LPS, which was spun off as an independent public company in 2008. LPS President and Chief Executive Officer Hugh Harris didn't...

Academy Sports & Outdoors was cleared for construction in Southside at 9041 Southside Blvd. in space vacated by Circuit City and Linens 'n Things.

T.D. Farrell Construction Inc. is the contractor for the $1.01 million project, which will create a 78,150-square-foot Academy Sports & Outdoors. As reported in March, Academy Sports & Outdoors plans to open in the Southside Square shopping...

Build-out approved for Your Pie

The City OK'd build-out for "Your Pie — Express Your Inner Pizza" in Tapestry Park at 4828 Deer Lake Drive W. Auld & White Constructors LLC is the contractor for the 3,040-square-foot project at a cost of $200,000. ...

Recruiters for area financial services companies said they are finding it easier to recruit out-of-state talent, while also leaning on local colleges and universities to fill their ranks.

“Clearly over the last decade, it has become a lot easier for us to recruit top-notch talent to Jacksonville,” Fredrik Eliasson, CSX Corp. executive vice president and chief financial officer, said Thursday. Eliasson...