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The city issued a permit July 21 for North Coast Construction to renovate space for Eastern Wire Products Inc. in Northwest Jacksonville at a cost of almost $1.53 million.
Eastern Wire is buying and renovating a building at 5414 Vernon Road, also listed as 5415 Longleaf St., with the help of a pending city grant and loan totaling $250,000.
The Jacksonville-based company makes steel wire and related products.
It now leases part of a multitenant building and is buying a 78,000-square-foot structure that needs to be upgraded.
Wrist Ship Supply Co. has about five years remaining on a lease there for 21,200 square feet of space. Eastern Wire would occupy the remaining space and expand when the Wrist lease expires or if the lease is terminated.