• Little-known fact. Players Championship Executive Director Brian Goin and Landing General Manager Janice G. Lowe are brother and sister.
• Speaking of the Landing, it looks as if construction at Fuddruckers is going again. Apparently, the burger chain has gotten all of its permits and two $50,000 cooking hoods were recently delivered. No word yet, though, on when Fuddruckers will open.
• The move by Legal Art Works from its Laura Street location to a larger, remodeled space on Bay Street next to AmSouth has been delayed. According to Legal Art Works owner Jeff Davis, during demolition mold and other issues were discovered. He was supposed to move at the end of January, but is now looking at the end of March.
• Clockwork Marketing is looking for people interested in serving on a focus group that will look at proposed high-rise residential developments in the Downtown area. The sessions are March 20 and 21 in the evening at the Irwin Research Center on Baymeadows Road. If interested, visit their Web site at www.clockworkmarketing.com
• The recently opened Grand Renaissance Piano Salon in Riverside will hold a Pianomasters Symposium at 6:30 p.m. March 7 at 2705 Riverside Ave. The symposium will allow participants to interact in an intensive, rapidly moving lecture-demonstration, in which members exchange musical and technical ideas relating to performance. All professional pianists are welcome. For more information or to reserve a seat (advanced reservations required), visit www.welovepianos.com, or call 210-5481.
• SignsPlus, a Jacksonville sign business on Baymeadows Road is moving to a new 2,400 square foot building on Florida Mining Boulevard. SignsPlus owner, J.R. Faris, said the company will be in the new location in about two months. Faris said the business will also be one of the few in the country to have on-site, flat-bed digital technology.
• C. Randolph Coleman has joined the law firm of Smith, Gambrell & Russell where he will establish and chair the firm’s estates and trusts department for the firm. The firm was started in Atlanta in 1983 and expanded nationally and internationally.
“What we lawyers want to do is to substitute courts for carnage, dockets for rockets, briefs for bombs, warrants for warheads, mandates for missiles.”
– George Rhyne, at the World Conference on World Peace through Law