• Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Mike Mularkey and his wife, Elizabeth, bought an oceanfront house at 1719 Beach Ave. in Atlantic Beach for $2.5 million from James and Claudia Naughton of Ponte Vedra Beach. The deed was made May 10 and recorded May 16. Mularkey was hired in January by new Jaguars owner Shahid Khan.
• Goodwill Industries of North Florida opened a retail center and donation drive-thru at 4243 Dunn Ave. Goodwill will open a Job Junction this summer next to the retail store. Goodwill Industries is accepting donations of gently used clothing, shoes, computers, toys, books, household items, furniture and linens.
• Mayor Alvin Brown launched a new mobile device application called JaxReady, which can be downloaded from the iPhone and Android application stores free of charge. JaxReady will help residents monitor weather threats and plan for evacuations in the event of a natural disaster. The app also displays the latest EOC-related threat levels, weather reports and wildfire dangers. The City said it was created by the City Information Technology Department and Emergency Response teams, at no additional cost to the taxpayer, through the use of existing resources. For information, visit www.JaxReady.org.
• Chris Winsett has been named manager of the Westside branch of Community First Credit Union. He has more than six years of experience in banking and earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of North Florida.
• San Marco travelers will soon see some route changes. Construction on the southbound lanes of San Marco Boulevard from Riviera Street to Naldo Avenue should be complete and open for traffic by June 9. Construction then will begin on the northbound lanes and should be completed by Oct. 31. In that phase, San Marco Boulevard northbound through traffic will be detoured to Hendricks Avenue and LaSalle Street. San Marco Boulevard northbound local traffic will be allowed to make a U-turn at Naldo Avenue. Residents within the construction zone will be provided temporary access during construction. All construction will be put on hold and roads will be open and accessible during the 2012 holiday season, Nov. 1 to Jan. 1. The final phase of the project, which includes the Naldo roundabout, will begin around Jan. 2. For more information, visit www.sanmarcoconstruction.com.
• Edward Waters College began demolition Wednesday at Kings Road and Grunthal Street for construction of the Center for the Prevention of Health Disparities, which is funded by a $495,000 Health Resources and Services Administration grant. The center will serve as a hub for the treatment and prevention of common urban health disparities, such as high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer, HIV, AIDS and obesity. Research on the diseases also will also take place within the center.
• The CoreLogic research data show that the foreclosure rate in Jacksonville among outstanding mortgage loans was 8.84 percent in March, up 0.34 percentage points from the rate of 8.50 in March 2011. The national rate was 3.41 percent in March. The mortgage delinquency rate also has increased. For March, 14.19 percent of mortgage loans in Jacksonville were 90 days or more delinquent compared to 13.40 percent for the same period last year, an increase of 0.79 percentage points.
• The American Council of Learned Societies awarded University of North Florida Assistant English Professor Laura Heffernan an ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship for $90,000 to be used toward research in her field. Heffernan, who has been at UNF since 2011, will use the fellowship to study “The Historical Classroom: Disciplinary History for the 21st Century,” which returns to the archives of key literary scholars to reconstruct the material histories of their 20th-century classrooms.
• The City Council Ad Hoc Committee on Funding the St. Johns River Ferry will meet at 3 p.m. Wednesday in Council Chambers in City Hall to discuss options for funding the St. Johns River Ferry. The chairman had given a different time and date for a story Wednesday and updated the meeting schedule Wednesday afternoon.
• The Jacksonville Aviation Authority announced a parking rate adjustment for the economy lots at Jacksonville International Airport effective Friday. The daily rate for Economy Lots 1 and 2 will be increased by $1, from $4 to $5. Rates at all other JIA parking facilities will remain the same.
• Bryan Bartlett, senior vice president, and Doug Wendell, commercial real estate specialist, at Grubb & Ellis Phoenix Realty Group Inc. represented American Builders & Contractors Supply Co. Inc. in selling a 58,600-square-foot industrial building at 205 Commercial Drive in St. Augustine for $2.375 million. Peter Apol of Commercial Florida Realty represented the buyer, 2G Energy AG.
• Fitch Ratings has affirmed its long-term ‘A’ rating on the Jacksonville Port Authority’s outstanding 2008 revenue bonds.
• Crowley Maritime Corp.’s Caribbean logistics unit has nearly doubled the size of its distribution center in Puerto Rico with the acquisition of a second warehouse adjacent to the company’s existing 70,000 square-foot distribution center in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. The expansion brings Crowley’s total warehouse space on the island to 119,800 square feet.