• Officials from the U.S. Postal Service say they haven’t found a new location for a downtown post office yet. “We’ve talked to a few people who are interested,” said Joseph Breckenridge of the postal service. “But we’re still in the early talking stages and it’s a fairly long and complicated process we have to go through.”
• Didn’t take long for Jeff Johnsen to relocate after parting ways with the World Golf Village hotel, he’s now GM at the Marriott Southpoint.
• The Gator Bowl Association’s board has passed its sales goal for this year. This week’s report meeting showed the board at 104 percent of its goal with a month to go.
• The Chamber’s Downtown Council has announced plans for this year’s Corporate Art Tour. It’s set for Nov. 13 from 6-8 p.m. at The Suddath Companies building on the Southbank. Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door.
• The Bethune-Cookman Marching Wildcats return to Alltel Stadium Sunday for a halftime performance at the Jags-Miami Dolphins game. The pregame show includes a musical tribute to the 1970s by the Roar, Roar Alumnae, Jr. Roar and Jr. Professional Roar cheerleaders.
• New business opening soon at Independent Square: Pelican Dry Cleaners.
• Starting Oct. 20, the Tax Deeds office will move to Room 304 in the Duval County Courthouse. Its current space on the fourth floor will be occupied by the Purchasing Office.
• The mood in the General Counsel’s Office was subdued Wednesday as staffers mourned the passing of Shealy Crick, who had worked in the office for 18 years as a legal secretary. Condolences to her family.
• The Beaches Business Association, a small business advocacy group for Atlantic, Neptune, Jacksonville and Ponte Vedra beaches, drafted a unanimous resolution urging Mayor John Peyton and the City Council to build the Better Jacksonville Plan overpasses “without further delay.”
• Mayor Peyton will congratulate personally 25 area fifth graders who scored perfect fives on their FCAT writing and reading tests as fourth graders. Following their meeting with the mayor, the children will be treated to lunch at Vito’s at the Landing.
• City Council member Suzanne Jenkins urged Mayor Peyton to consider moving the City’s Community Development Division into the Neighborhoods Department under the purview of new director Roslyn Phillips. However, Policy Chief Steve Diebenow responded that the division is already administering block grants at a very high level under current leadership. “Why change something that is working so well?” Diebenow asked Jenkins in an e-mail.