• What can $2.75 million buy? This house, a 4,300-square-foot riverfront home at 3915 Ortega Blvd. The Wall Street Journal published a photo and information about the home in its May 13 “Relative Values” feature, along with a $2.9 million Montana property and one in New York for $2.5 million. Prudential Network Realty agents Caroline Powell and Allison Steilberg represent the listing for owners Payton and Carol Scheppe, who’ve owned the 1918-built home for 35 years and are downsizing. It’s been on the market for a year. “What a windfall this was,” said Powell, who has been called by agents across the country and has shown the home locally based on the feature. “I smile when I think what we would have paid for this kind of advertising.” She said the Journal reporter called “out of the blue.”
• Condolences to the friends and family of Circuit Judge Richard Watson, 78, who died Tuesday of pancreatic cancer. He was a senior judge in the 7th Judicial Circuit. He was appointed to the bench in 1977 and twice elected by his fellow judges as chief judge of the circuit. He served as a senior judge since 1996.
• Cabot Properties and Jax Industrial Management announce the lease of 22,028 square feet of space to Survitec Survival Products and 48,000 square feet to Recall Total Information Management Inc. at the Alta Lakes Commerce Center, a multitenant industrial park. Bryan Bartlett and John Richardson of Grubb & Ellis Phoenix Realty Group represented Cabot Properties.
• “Jacksonville as America’s Logistics Center” will be discussed 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. June 16 at the Florida Department of Transportation Training Center at 2198 Edison Ave. Maritime lawyer George Gabel, Jacksonville Port Authority Executive Vice President Roy Schleicher and Jacksonville Regional Chamber of Commerce President Wally Lee are on the panel. For more information, visit www.wtsevents.org and click on Northeast Florida.
• Chase opened a Jacksonville homeownership center at 10151 Deerwood Park Blvd. to counsel distressed borrowers who have a home loan serviced by Chase or EMC. The center will be open from 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday. Borrowers with a Chase or EMC mortgage can call 620-6092 for an appointment.