• RS&H has hired Terry Wilcox as vice president and intermodal market leader for its national Transportation Program. Wilcox brings more than 25 years of experience leading marine and intermodal-related programs throughout the U.S. Wilcox will focus on intermodal planning, design and overall program management. Meanwhile, Lisa Robert, Jacksonville office leader for RS&H’s Transportation Program, has been appointed to the University of North Florida Dean’s Leadership Council for the College of Computing, Engineering and Construction.
• Abel Harding, director of communications for Mayor Alvin Brown, is on administrative leave, according to Chris Hand, Brown’s chief of staff. Hand was responding this morning to questions about Harding’s arrest Saturday night by the Hampton Police Department in Bradford County on DUI charges. Hand said Harding was on leave “while this matter is reviewed. The legal process is ongoing and we have no further comment at this time.”
• Second Harvest North Florida hired Jacksonville businessman Bruce Ganger as the regional food bank’s executive director, ending a six-month search. Ganger previously served as managing director for ISF Group, which assists area nonprofits, including Second Harvest, with fundraising and development. He inherits an organization that has increased food distribution from 7.6 million pounds in 2008 to a projected 21 million pounds this year. Second Harvest will distribute food equivalent to 16.2 million meals for individuals and families in need in 2011.
• Pamela Elms has resigned from Downtown Vision Inc. effective Sept. 28 to accept a position as executive director of Kappa Delta Sorority at its headquarters in Memphis. DVI Executive Director Terry Lorince said today that Elms, director of marketing, has been with DVI for more than four years.
• EverBank and AT&T Tower 301 representatives are meeting regularly to negotiate terms of a lease for EverBank to occupy about 225,000 square feet in the Downtown tower, says a source involved in the deal. While a nonbinding letter of intent was signed in early August, the details must be hammered out in the lease document, an action that could be completed in the next 30-45 days, according to the source.
• First Watch opened in Mandarin at the Riverplace Shopping Center at 11111 San Joe Blvd. It’s the second First Watch, a daytime café, in the area. The first opened Aug. 15 in Jacksonville Beach. First Watch operates 7 a.m.-2:30 p.m. seven days a week and serves its entire menu all day.
• Nancy Dreicer has resigned as regional administrator of the Department of Children and Families Northeast Region. Daily Record news partner WJXT TV-4 reported Monday that Dreicer spent eight years in the position and said she was leaving for personal reasons. A few weeks ago, a St. Johns County judge ruled in civil court that she committed fraud when she transferred her failing cigar bar’s liquor license to herself in an attempt to avoid paying creditors, said WJXT. Dreicer has not been charged with any crime related to the fraud ruling. She told the Palm Beach Post that she believes she did nothing wrong.