• Fletcher High School won first place Saturday in the Florida Regional Botball Tournament at the University of North Florida. The team (shown here) was coached by Tom LaPointe. Bishop Kenny High School, coached by Larry Akin, won second place and Nease High School, coached by Matthew Augenstein, placed third. The teams designed and built autonomous robots that competed in a Botball game.
• Carroll’s Meat Shoppe is opening at 6925 St. Augustine Road, according to a City-issued sign permit.
• The CoreLogic real estate analysis firm reports that the rate of Jacksonville area foreclosures among outstanding mortgage loans was 8.6 percent in December, up 0.52 percentage points from December 2010. The rate was higher than the national foreclosure rate of 3.37 percent. Also, 14.15 percent of mortgage loans in Jacksonville were 90 days or more delinquent, up from 13.35 percent the year before.
• The Sauer-ELM design-build team announced it has completed the design for the administrative headquarters for the Cancer Specialists of North Florida oncology physician practice. ELM, a Jacksonville and Seattle-based architecture, design and planning firm, designed the master plan for the practice’s 5-acre parcel and its $3 million, 21,200-square-foot office building in the Southpoint area in collaboration with Sauer Inc., project construction manager.