Humana Inc.’s move from Downtown to the suburbs took another preparatory step this week as a permit was submitted to build-out space in Baymeadows.
Adams Interior Contractors Inc. will renovate 13,418 square feet of office space for Humana at 8935 Prominence Parkway in the Prominence office park.
The construction cost is listed at $443,189. The city separately approved a sign permit for Humana on the building.
The company will move into the first floor of the three-story building.
Humana will leave the SunTrust Tower, moving more than 80 regional executives, administrative and network positions to Prominence.
It also will relocate about 40 Humana and CarePlus Health Plans sales agents and customer staff to a new Humana MarketPoint office in Mandarin.
Both moves are expected in August.
Plans for the Prominence space call the project the “Humana Jacksonville Market Office.” The architect is HOK of St. Louis.
Crocker Partners owns Prominence through Crocker Partners V Freedom LLC.
JCPenney opening appliance showrooms
JCPenney is returning to the major appliance business in 500 stores, including at Regency Square mall and The Avenues.
The company is transforming its home departments to begin selling kitchen and laundry appliances starting Friday.
Each location will carry 100 to 215 appliance models on display from manufacturers such as Samsung, LG, GE and Hotpoint, the company said.
JCPenney said it was resuming sales of appliances after more than 30 years following a three-market pilot it considered “extremely successful.”
KFC remodeling
Kentucky Fried Chicken will renovate stores in Regency and Southside.
Halligan Commercial Services is updating the exterior with new paint, light fixtures and awnings, while the dining rooms are being refreshed with new décor and lighting and the restrooms will be updated with new fixtures.
Remodeling construction costs are $146,000 for the Regency store at 9551 Regency Square Blvd. N. and $124,000 for the location at 10770 Beach Blvd.
Politico co-founder speaking post-election
Politico co-founder Jim VandeHei will headline the Florida ACG Capital Connection lunch Nov. 16 at The Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island.
Capital Connection’s participants include private equity executives, investment bankers, businesses, lawyers and others seeking and providing financing and merger assistance.
VandeHei’s remarks will come the week after the Nov. 8 general election in which voters will choose between presumptive Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump for U.S. president.
VandeHei co-founded Politico in 2007 to cover politics and policy based in the Washington, D.C. area.
It has grown from about 60 employees to almost 500 with reporters, editors and producers in D.C., Florida, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Illinois, California and internationally.
He left Politico in April and intends to open a new media company late this year with fellow Politico co-founder Mike Allen.
VandeHei keynoted the November 2012 ACG conference at The Ritz as well, just days after President Barack Obama was re-elected.
Back then, VandeHei predicted the 2016 presidential contest could be Hillary Clinton vs. Jeb Bush.
He also contended there would not be a repeat of a Republican ticket that looked like the one in 2012 — former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin. Ryan now is speaker of the House.
“You will never again see a Republican ticket with two white men on it,” he said in 2012, “or they are not going to win.”
VandeHei said the “silver lining” in the Republican loss was that “for the first time, Republicans are realizing they have to change.”
“If Republicans move quickly, they can realign the party,” he said.
VandeHei named Republicans then that he expected could lead that change and possibly the Republican presidential ticket in 2016 — U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio from Florida, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ryan.
Trump wasn’t part of the conversation back then.
In April, VandeHei advocated in a Wall Street Journal commentary for a third-party candidate. “In this case, the purpose is cleaning up the mess the leaders of the two parties created,” he wrote.
For information about the ACG conference, email [email protected].
Casa del Rio apartment complex sold for $20M
A New York investor bought the Casa del Rio St. Johns apartment complex in Arlington on Wednesday for $20.25 million.
Goodman Real Estate of Seattle, through River Bend Partners LLC, sold the 40-building community at 3500 University Blvd. N., to David Stern Management Corp., through Casa Del Rio 2016 LLC.
David Stern Management is based in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Casa del Rio occupies almost 36 acres along the St. Johns River and was built in 1973 and 1975, property records show. The sale also included 4.6 acres of submerged land.
The property formerly was known as River Bend Apartments.
Casa Del Rio 2016 LLC borrowed $15.58 million from Jones Lang LaSalle Multifamily LLC. The mortgage loan was issued Tuesday.
The deed and mortgage were recorded Wednesday with the Duval County Clerk of Court.
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