• Craig Municipal Airport in East Arlington is scheduled for a new name. The City approved 13 sign permits last week for the Jacksonville Aviation Authority facility to be renamed JAXEX Jacksonville Executive at Craig Airport. The sign contractor is listed as Media 1 Graphix of Longwood and the job costs total $103,144. The 11 monument and two wall signs consist of the new name, a welcome sign and an LED message center. Craig serves as JIA’s corporate air center.
• Riverside Avondale Preservation scheduled its 38th annual Spring Homes Tour April 21-22. A dozen homes will be featured.
• State Attorney Angela Corey issued a news release Tuesday that she is preparing to release information regarding the Trayvon Martin shooting death investigation within 72 hours at a news conference in Sanford or Jacksonville. The release said media will be notified by email three hours in advance regarding the time and place and that media access will be limited. Gov. Rick Scott appointed Corey, state attorney in the Fourth Judicial Circuit, on March 22 as the outside prosecutor to investigate the Feb. 26 shooting death of 17-year-old Martin in Sanford.
• It’s cheaper to own a home in Jacksonville than to rent, according to The Wall Street Journal. In a chart published April 4, the Journal showed Jacksonville as No. 5 among U.S. markets where it’s cheaper to own than rent. The area’s average rent was 142.2 percent of the average after-tax mortgage payment in the last quarter of 2011. Atlanta was No. 1, at 192.8 percent, followed by Cleveland (157.3 percent), Orlando (145.6 percent) and Las Vegas (144.8 percent). Renting is the cheapest, compared to the costs of owning a home, in Portland, Ore., Denver and in Orange City, Oakland and San Jose, Calif.
• The Local Government Solutions division of Jacksonville-based Lender Processing Services has completed the initial phase of the installation of its advanced criminal court management technology, ShowCase, in the Palm Beach County Clerk and Comptroller’s Office. LPS said the implementation represents the largest installation of ShowCase to date. Palm Beach will use ShowCase to handle the almost 425,000 criminal court cases the county processes each year. ShowCase software turns paper documents into electronic images and provides workflow management, calendaring, indexing and search capabilities for the court.
• The third LA Fitness center planned in Jacksonville was approved for construction on the Westside at 6000 Lake Gray Blvd. McCorkle Construction Co. is the contractor for the $2 million project and also is the contractor for the LA Fitness in the former Publix Super Markets store in Lakewood at University Boulevard West and St. Augustine Road. Impact Construction Management LLC is the contractor for the LA Fitness at Kernan and Atlantic boulevards. LA Fitness, based in Irvine, Calif., is new to the market.