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04:00 AM EST Share These are the largest commercial building permits by job cost issued April 27 by the city of Jacksonville.
Amusement Recreational
City of Jacksonville, 10980 Heckscher Drive, contractor is Precision Playgrounds-Jacksonville Inc., Huguenot Memorial Park playground equipment installation, $153,879.
Hospital, Institutional
UF Health Jacksonville Medical Center, 655 W. Eighth St., contractor is Perry-McCall Construction Inc., 2,500 square feet, operating room renovation, $150,000.
Wyndham Lakes, A Pacifica Senior Living Community, 10660 Old St. Augustine Road, No. 1, contractor is Memco Inc., install diesel fuel system, $25,806.
Industrial
Seaonus Stevedoring-Jacksonville LLC, 2085 Talleyrand Ave., contractor is Kaneco Construction LLC, 120,000 square feet, concrete placement, $100,000.
Office, Bank, Professional
Baymeadows Park Dental, 8130 Baymeadows Circle W., No. 103, contractor is Tenant Contractors Inc., 1,900 square feet, renovation,
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“Are you coming in?”
She nodded as Brown propped open the door of Gainesville’s Grifols Biomat USA Plasma Center on 13th Street. The woman provided one of about 1,200 plasma samples the center received that week.
In the doorway, the first thing you encounter is a watermelon-sized container of hand sanitizer. A technician in a mask and lab coat squirts the disinfectant into your hand and takes your temperature with a contactless thermometer. If you are cool enough, you may proceed inside, where every employee sports personal protective equipment and glass shields divide public areas.
The company implemented these precautions to make sure the centers were safe spaces for donors. The plasma collection machines and accompanying chairs have been spread out to accommodate social distancing.
Inside the Grifols Biomat USA Plasma Center, people from all over the community come to donate, with their stories, afflictions and motivations with them.