Construction should start about the end of October or early November on Brooks University Crossing, a 111-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation center near Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital at Beach and University boulevards.
Completion is expected to take 12 months. Fickling Construction Inc. is the contractor.
The $13.6 million construction project comprises a three-story, 81,267-square-foot structure on 8.34 acres at 6210 Beach Blvd., the former site of the Gator Office Furniture building that was demolished. Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital has owned the site since 2000.
The skilled nursing facility will be next to the Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital campus at 3599 University Blvd. S.
Brooks will expand the services provided at its University Boulevard campus to include the skilled-nursing facility serving both patients in need of short-term rehabilitation as well as long-term care.
Jill Matejcek, manager of public and community relations for Brooks Rehabilitation, said University Crossing also will include two specialty units — a 12-bed unit for patients requiring a ventilator and a 10-bed brain injury unit.
Brooks provides therapy to patients in its hospital and its outpatient facilities. Its brookshealth.org site says it offers more types and more hours of therapy than any area rehabilitation system.
It says it has the region’s only rehabilitation hospital, a full range of outpatient therapies, a home health agency, skilled nursing and physicians who specialize in rehabilitation medicine.
Holland & Knight remodeling
Holland & Knight will remodel its three floors at the Bank of America Tower Downtown at 50 N. Laura St.
Dan Bean, Jacksonville executive partner, said the refurbishment will be completed in stages, starting with the main floor on the 39th story.
The 38th floor will become its main floor in the meantime.
The city approved interior demolition on the three floors. Auld & White Constructors LLC is the contractor for the 45,931-square-foot project.
Bean did not have an amount for the total investment. He said he would have a better idea about the completion date after the work begins.
Bean said 2015 will be Holland & Knight’s 25th anniversary in Jacksonville.
“We are truly grateful for our success in the Jacksonville market over the past 25 years and look forward to the next 25,” he said, adding that the renovations “will further enable us to attract and retain the best legal talent which allows us to consistently provide superior client service.”
Signal South moving to Mandarin
Jacksonville-based Signal South, which provides railroad signal design and engineering, construction and project management, is moving from the Southpoint area to Mandarin.
The company, now at 7235 Bonneval Road, No. 300, is moving to 12276 San Jose Blvd., No. 522.
The city approved a permit for Tenant Contractors Inc. to renovate 6,332 square feet of space for Signal South at the Mandarin location.
The company’s website is signalsouth.com.
Signal South provides custom railroad signal services from conception through development and implementation.
Construction offers field installation or maintenance instruction services for wayside and highway crossing signal projects.
The company also provides engineers onsite to support in-service testing and documentation for all field equipment installed.
The project management team produces solutions specific to customer requirements.
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