Gov. Rick Scott is scheduled to make a jobs announcement at 2:15 p.m. today in Jacksonville at Deutsche Bank's Southside campus at 5022 Gate Parkway.
As of April, the international financial services company employed at least 1,349 people in more than 155,000 square feet of space among the buildings it leases in Meridian Park and has since been expanding.
In April, the City approved legislation toward $2 million in local and state incentives for Deutsche Bank to create 300 more jobs and expand its administrative support and investment banking functions.
The project summary said the company proposed to renovate and lease an additional 30,000 square feet of existing space at the location.
That boosts employment to 1,649 and space to 185,000 square feet.
Scott is expected to talk today about state and City support for Deutsche Bank's job creation. His news conference is planned at Building 100, which houses the main offices of the company's Jacksonville campus.
Mayor Alvin Brown is not expected to attend because he is at the U.S. Conference of Mayors' 81st annual meeting in Las Vegas. It concludes today.
In April, the City approved a permit for a $450,000 renovation for and expansion for Deutsche Bank's Corporate Banking & Securities unit.
Gilbane Building Co. of Dacula, Ga., is the contractor for that 19,000-square-foot project within the 49,415-square-foot Building 200. ASD Inc. is the designer.
The City currently is reviewing a building-permit application for a $3 million interior renovation of 36,000 square feet of office space shown as Suite 300 of Building 300. The application indicates the space can accommodate 360 occupants.
Gilbane is the contractor and ASD is the architect.
The owner of the office park is CD119 Meridian LLC, part of Taurus Southern Investments LLC of Winter Park.
Deutsche Bank continues to take up space in the Meridian Office Park, which comprises five buildings totaling more than 200,000 square feet of space.
Deutsche Bank still has not commented about the Global Technology command center at the campus, in Building 100.
In January, the City approved a permit for Gilbane to renovate about 9,000 square feet of space at a project cost of $420,000 for what plans show as the command center.
The Global Technology plans show a larger room with tables lined up and angled, facing projection screens, as well as an information security room, a "crisis meeting room," and other meeting areas and offices.
The db.com website said Global Technology is the bank's information technology and infrastructure organization with three divisions.
Global Technology provides the technology services and solutions that enable Deutsche Bank to support the bank's clients and more than 100,000 employees across 3,000 locations globally.
Deutsche Bank has been a Jacksonville factor for five years. It chose Jacksonville in 2008 for a 1,000-employee operation which obviously has grown.
When Deutsche Bank, based in Frankfurt, Germany, approached the City for incentives in 2008, it said it was considering establishing a "nearshore" operations hub in Jacksonville that would create operations and technology jobs to support Deutsche Bank's corporate, investment banking and asset and wealth management businesses.
With the proposed hub, Deutsche Bank said it planned to create 1,000 full-time jobs by Dec. 31, 2011.
It opened its Global Business Services Center office along Gate Parkway and continues to expand there.
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