The city issued permits this week for renovations to the Wells Fargo Center lobby and the building’s first-floor Atrium Cafe & Grill as part of a $12.5 million project to update the 46-year-old tower.
Dav-Lin Interior Contractors Inc. is the contractor for the $1.935 million project that comprises $1.74 million for the lobby and $194,013 for the cafe. The city issued permits for the cafe May 17 and the lobby May 18.
Larry Chapman, managing director of landlord Miami-based Banyan Street Capital, said May 18 the timing for the work depends on when the contractor can assemble the materials on the site.
He said that with worldwide logistics issues affecting delivery of building materials, he expects construction might start in several weeks but no timeline has been established.
Downtown’s Wells Fargo Center is preparing for a $12.5 million lobby, cafe and common area renovation along with elevator upgrades that have begun in the 37-story tower.
Larry Chapman, managing director of landlord Miami-based Banyan Street Capital, said April 28 the lobby, elevators and Atrium Cafe & Grill as well as the common area bathrooms and corridors on the multitenant floors will be renovated over the next seven months.
“It’s funded and ready to go,” he said.
“It is going to set a whole new standard for Downtown Jacksonville.”
Dav-Lin Interior Contractors Inc. is the contractor. Kasper Architects + Associates is the architect.
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SG Collaborative, developers of a proposed major new residential and retail community known as Douglass Hill, on April 5 submitted a change of zoning application to the cityâs Department of Planning and Development.
The developer is requesting that the 15.1-acre site, which currently consists of three different zoning designations, be changed to a single designation of planned commercial. The request was submitted by Larry Chapman, manager of SG Collaborative, LLC.
The earliest the city plan commission would take up the rezoning request is at its June 7 meeting, according to Webster Groves Director of Planning and Development Mara Perry.Â
âThe project is extensive enough that we need more time to do a staff review by all our departments of the request,â Perry said.
Students learn first source history at Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas
Special to the Times-News
High school students Landon Stepp and Andrew Renegar were excited to find the Sept. 20, 1943 issue of Life magazine during their April 12 field trip to the Veterans History Museum of the Carolinas.
The two sophomores are creating a 10-minute documentary for the national competition, “Communication in History: The Key to Understanding,” for National History Day 2021.
The mission of National History Day is “Engaging Students and Teachers in Historical Research & Skills Development.” www.nhd.org.
Stepp and Renegar had been researching the Life magazine article and picture: “Three Dead Americans: How a Photograph Won WWII By Communicating the Casualties of War and Deepening Understanding of Home Front Morale.”
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