• Candace Moody, vice president of communications at WorkSource, will serve as chair of the Jacksonville Women’s Business Center, part of the JAX Chamber Foundation, for the coming two years. Chantelle Quick, director of audit services at Ennis Pellum & Associates CPAs, will serve as vice chair. They will lead the 22-member board.
• School Board Chair W.C. Gentry is keynote speaker this morning at the Arlington Council of the JAX Chamber meeting. Chamber Chair-elect Tom Van Berkel speaks Nov. 30. The council meets for breakfast at 7:30 a.m. at the Kinne Center at Jacksonville University. For information, visit www.arlingtoncouncil.org.
• St. Vincent’s Medical Center offers Northeast Florida’s first Gamma Knife Perfexion and now the region’s only Gamma Knife, which is a medical device that uses radiation to treat malignant and benign brain tumors and other vascular disorders in a single, one-day patient visit through minimally invasive technology. The City issued a building permit for installation of the Gamma Knife a month ago. H&H systems & Design Inc. was the contractor for the $400,000 project.
• Jacksonville-based Rayonier reported third quarter net income of $105 million, or 84 cents per share. The results include a $16 million tax benefit from the reversal of a reserve relating to the taxability of the 2009 alternative fuel mixture credit. Excluding this benefit, net income was $89 million, or 71 cents per share, up from $63 million, or 51 cents per share, in the prior year period. Year-to-date 2011 net income totaled $220 million, or $1.75 per share, compared to $158 million, or $1.30 per share, in 2010. Excluding special items, year-to-date net income rose to $204 million, or $1.62 per share.
• Marand Builders Inc. is handling the $86,148 tenant build-out for the Wells Fargo Center Store at the Wells Fargo Center. Plans show the project is for the first-floor bank office at 1 Independent Drive W.
• Look for Pele’s Wood Fire restaurant and café at Park and King streets. The City issued a permit for Shaw Contracting Inc. to handle tenant build-out for the restaurant at 2665 Park St. Its website, www.peleswoodfire.com, indicates a fall opening of the “authentic Neapolitan wood-fired pizza” eatery “in the heart of historic Riverside.”
• Among other recent City-issued building permits: The City issued a permit for handrail maintenance and modification at EverBank Field at a project cost of $95,000; two permits totaling almost $2.25 million were issued for a loading dock and truck repair and fuel and steam bays for Southeastern Freight Lines at 3335 Edgewood Ave. N.; Duke Indiana Construction Limited Partnership is handling the $405,000 construction of a 48,574-square-foot building and the $4.83 million tenant build-out there for the General Services Administration at Flagler Center; Cohen Construction is handling the $81,376 tenant build-out for Round Robin Consignment store at 8650 Old Kings Road S.; Sauer Inc. will build the $3.96 million, two-story, 22,844-square-foot multipurpose building for Jacksonville Country Day School at 10063 Baymeadows Road; The Angelo Group Inc. will build a $491,661 maintenance facility at The Bolles School; and Burger Roofing Co. will handle the $62,300 roofing job for AutoQuotes at 4425 Merrimac Ave.
• The Buchman Ballroom opened Oct. 1 at the Sheraton Jacksonville Hotel. With nine separate meeting spaces measuring more than 6,000 square feet, the property can serve meeting and event needs for up to 400 people. The Buchman Ballroom can host 300-person weddings or 400-person conferences. The ballroom also can be broken down into four break-out rooms. The hotel opened in 2008 along Deerwood Park Boulevard. Its restaurant is Bold City Grill.
• The St. Johns River Water Management District is reviewing an application for the Neptune Beach Town Center, described as a 13,000-square-foot, two-story, mixed-use building at 241 Atlantic Blvd., at Second Street. Southcoast Beaches II LLC is the property owner and Skiles Davis & Baker is the civil engineer. It’s a 0.4-acre project.