The Mayo Clinic is planning projects totaling more than $4.6 million at its Southside campus, which follows the $97 million investment in the area announced in May.
According to the clinic and public records, Mayo plans:
• A $3.2 million, 14,890-square-foot dialysis center to be developed along Worrall Way at the Southside campus. Engineer Prosser Hallock filed site development plans in late November for review with the City.
Construction is expected to start in March and be substantially completed in November. The center will relocate from St. Vincent's Medical Center Southside by the end of 2013.
The clinic reported the dialysis center will be built next to the Mayo Clinic Sleep Center and contain 24 treatment bays and three home-training bays as well as exam, consult and associated staff spaces. It will be designed to accommodate both mobile and stretcher patients.
• A $1.07 million renovation to its community pharmacy on the first floor of the Davis Building on campus. A building permit application and plans show Danis Construction as the contractor of the 5,292-square-foot project.
Construction is expected to start in January and be completed in October. The renovated space will include a larger waiting and retail area, more capacity for medicine storage and investigational drugs, and an improved layout at the pharmacist and tech work stations for better workflow in filling prescriptions.
Mayo said the patient transaction counters will become multifunctional so that dropoff, pickup and purchases can take place at any of the four counters. A private consult room also is planned.
• A $367,377 renovation for a bio-bank storage area, called the "robotics freezer installation." Danis is shown as the contractor for the project, described as interior renovation of the Campus Support Center warehouse into the bio-bank storage area.
Mayo Clinic reports the robotic freezer will be used for research sample storage with an automated system of retrieval and archiving. Construction on the almost 3,000-square-foot project has begun and should be completed by the spring.
The renovations are in addition to the announcement in May for a $97 million investment in two Jacksonville construction projects that began in the summer.
The projects included the $80 million addition of two floors and 90 beds to its hospital on campus and the $16.7 million construction of an off-site primary care center near the Interstate 295 East Beltway and Gate Parkway.
The City issued a permit Monday for the two-story hospital addition at a project cost of $41 million. The Robins & Morton Group is the contractor.
In May, the clinic announced the two projects and other recently announced expansions boosted its capital-improvement investments to $132 million over the past two years. The latest projects will increase that.
The hospital addition and the primary care center projects are expected to add about 400 jobs at the clinic and 250 construction jobs, said Mayo Clinic Florida CEO Dr. William Rupp in a news release.
As of May, the clinic had about 4,900 employees, said the release. "Our hospital has been operating at or near capacity almost since it first opened four years ago," Rupp said.
The projects announced in May were the first expansion of the Mayo Clinic hospital since it opened in April 2008. The release said the hospital has 214 beds and the project will expand that to 304 private rooms and eight floors. The hospital includes a full-service emergency department.
The two-story, 40,000-square-foot primary care center will be designed to support 20 physicians and providers and offer X-ray, mammography, ultrasound and laboratory services. The center should open next summer and will be the clinic's third freestanding primary care center in Northeast Florida in addition to the primary care practice on the main campus. The other primary care centers are in Jacksonville Beach and St. Augustine.
In addition, Mayo Clinic added two floors to an office building on the San Pablo campus to expand Mayo Medical Laboratories and the Simulation Center, which helps train physicians and other medical staff.
In addition, it opened the 10,000-square-foot freestanding sleep disorders center, as well as the Gabriel House of Care, a 30-room, extended-stay patient housing center for visiting transplant and cancer patients and their families.
The Mayo Clinic Florida opened in 1986 in Jacksonville and has expanded since.
Meanwhile, Rupp is on track to serve as the JAX Chamber chair in 2014, succeeding 2013 Chair Greg Smith of Bank of America.
Dollar stores and more
Family Dollar Stores of Florida Inc. paid $1.2 million for 1.34 acres in Baldwin at 650 W. U.S. 90. Family Dollar, based in Matthews, N.C., bought the vacant land from Baldwin FDS LLC. … Dollar General Corp. has its name taped along the storefront windows at a vacant space in Regency Pointe shopping center, indicating it plans to open there. … The City is reviewing a zoning exception request for the former Arthur Murray Dance Studio next to the Dollar General along Merrill Road. The zoning application shows Merrill Liquors proposes a package liquor store at the former dance studio at 7720 Merrill Road.
Demolition permits
The City issued demolition permits for two buildings, 4490 and 4492 Southside Blvd. The combined project cost is $26,000. Both are two-story, 7,000-square-foot structures, property records show. One was built in 1982 and the other in 1983. The properties are owned by Raikes Boys LLC, whose members are Mitch and Larry Raikes, the founders of Larry's Giant Subs.
Property sales
The Freedom Commerce Centre office park was sold for $27.8 million in a sale recorded Dec. 5. Crocker Partners V Freedom LLC of Boca Raton bought the seven-building property from JPMCC 2005-CIBC13 Orlandville Offices LLC, in care of LNR Partners LLC of Miami Beach. Freedom Commerce Centre comprises the Osborn, Gunti, Jackson, Hamilton, DeSoto, Nassau and Suwannee buildings. The office park is between Philips Highway and Interstate 95 from the Baymeadows Road interchange to the Philips Highway interchange. … Pablo Oaks LLC bought an office building at 4315 Pablo Oaks Court from CRM Florida Properties LLC for $2.9 million. Property records show the single-story, 22,453-square-foot building was last sold in June for $3.1 million.
Phoenix Realty adds Diebenow as office specialist
Grubb & Ellis Phoenix Realty Group has hired Ashley Diebenow as an office specialist, focusing on commercial office leasing and sales, representing both landlords and tenants. She has lived in Jacksonville for more than 15 years and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Florida Atlantic University. If the name sounds familiar it's because her spouse is lawyer Steve Diebenow. They've been married 15 years.
FCMA names 2013 officers
The First Coast Manufacturers Association announced its 2013 tri-chairmen are Carlos Zanoelo of Gerdau; Gary Frost of Georgia-Pacific Corp.; and John Otterson of IFF Chemical Holdings. The association, whose executive director is Florida Rep. Lake Ray, is a nonprofit trade association serving Northeast Florida. Members comprise more than 1,500 manufacturing companies that provide more than 30,000 jobs. For more information about the association and its 2013 leadership, visit fcmaweb.com.
Kenny Rogers, Justin Bieber on the way
Global sensation Justin Bieber announced he will perform Aug. 7 at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. Tickets will be on sale Dec. 14. For more information, visit jaxevents.com.
Also, The Florida Theatre announced performers Kenny Rogers and the Alan Parsons Live Project are scheduled in February.
Rogers is scheduled at 8 p.m. Feb. 16 and the Alan Parsons Live Project is scheduled at 8 p.m. Feb. 20. For information about those and other events on the calendar, visit floridatheatre.com.
Chartrand Foundation moves grantmaking to Community Foundation
The Chartrand Foundation, a private family foundation that focuses its philanthropy on early childhood and K-12 public education reform in Duval County, announced it will conduct all of its grantmaking through The Community Foundation in Jacksonville beginning in the spring.
Gary Chartrand, a member of the Jacksonville-based foundation's board, said the mission, vision and values of The Chartrand Foundation will not change and its grantmaking will continue to be advised by the Chartrand family.
The Community Foundation staff will handle procedural and operational aspects of the grantmaking. All existing commitments will be fulfilled.
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