• Downtown may have lost its only post office, but at least one business says they may have a solution. Greg Vacaro of Gus & Company Shoe Repair on Laura Street has expressed interest in leasing space in his shop. He says roughly half of his store can be converted into a post office without any problems.
• Speaking of postal options, Downtown Development Authority senior manager Al Battle says he would be happy to offer advice or suggestions to the postal service as he gets more information. The move out of Ziba’s Salon also caught Battle by surprise.
• JEA is looking for a new media relations person. Bruce Dugan, JEA’s longtime media ace, has been promoted.
• Downtown commercial real estate agent Fran Pepis topped her company’s national sales among those in the Southeast. She’s with Colliers Dickinson.
• Riverside Avenue’s Pappas, Metcalf, Jenks and Miller, P.A. is welcoming new attorneys Spencer N. Cummings, Gregory J. Lesak Jr. and Joseph J. Van Rooy.
• It’s Jaxson de Ville’s annual birthday Sunday and that means one of the most popular halftime shows. Mascots from other teams will appear including Captain Fear from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Poe (as in Edgar Allan Poe) from the Baltimore Ravens, Blitz from the Seattle Seahawks and Big red from the Arizona cardinals. You’ll also see the debut of the Super Bowl Host Committee’s mascot, a pelican.
•The law firm of Rogers, Towers, Bailey, Jones & Gay is launching a new website, www.rtlaw.com.
• Our city’s namesake will get a little better looking. Andrew Jackson’s face is on the $20 bill and the government is issuing new bills to combat counterfeiting. Among the changes: a facelift for Andy. Check around his eyes and neck.
• There’s a new tenant in the neon green building next to European Art Garage. DanniJo Jewels is now occupying 1533 San Marco Blvd., which once housed Lush furniture shop.
• Happy birthday to Kitty Crenshaw, wife U.S. Rep Ander Crenshaw.
• A contingent from the Gator Bowl Host Committee will be acknowledged by the Miami Hurricanes during the team’s Thursday night game against West Virginia. The committee representatives will attend the game, scouting teams for the Jan. 1 bowl.
• The law firm of Marks Gray has a new attorney. Justin Mallot, relative of Jerry Mallot from the Chamber of Commerce, just passed the bar last week.
• The grandsons of Winn-Dixie co-founder Tine Wayne Davis are bringing a new restaurant to Jacksonville. Bill and Mark Duke plan to open Camille’s Sidewalk Café in the Deerwood Lake Commons before the end of the year. It will be the first of five branches of the franchise they’ll open here.
• When developer Mike Langton read a Daily Record story about John J. McMullen Associates being a finalist for a contract with the Navy, he called his son Jason with the news. Jason applied for a job with the company and was hired as an ocean engineer.