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05:10 AM EST Share It is called Project Pineapple on building plans that are under review by the city. The bottling company will stay on North Main Street.
Bacardi USA is the Project Pineapple that committed to lease a NorthPoint Industrial Park warehouse.
Broker Wayne Schuchts, principal with Avison Young in Miami, said May 3 that the rum bottler will move its distribution function from one North Jacksonville development to another.
“Bacardi needed more space and more efficiency,” said Schuchts, principal of industrial, land and office leasing.
Wayne Schuchts
He said Avison Young has represented Bacardi for 15 years.
Jacksonville-based Bacardi Bottling Corp. operates at 12200 N. Main St., 6 miles west of the NorthPoint facility.
Bermuda-based Bacardi Limited announced that George H. Dorion, 91, a longtime company leader and great-grandson of founder Don Facundo Bacardí Massó, died April 14 in his Jacksonville home.
“For more than 25 years he dedicated himself to evolving the business by helping us lead the way in environmental responsibility and supporting development of new products that appealed to the trends of the moment,” said Facundo Bacardi, chairman of family-owned Bacardi Limited.
Bacardi Bottling Corp. is based in Jacksonville, where it bottles Bacardi rum-branded products and employs more than 200 people.
Dorion, a chemist, joined the family business in 1969 in Puerto Rico to work at the rum distillery that the company says is the largest premium rum distillery in the world.