‘The Biggest Impact’
When President Jim McCarthy joined the North Florida Land Trust in 2014, the non-profit conservation organization had a $233,000 budget and a staff of three. In seven years, the trust has grown to 14 full-time employees and a budget of $8 million and has secured protection for more than 25,000 acres.
“The secret to that (success) is finding really good people,” McCarthy says. “But, we have also stayed focused on where we could have the biggest impact.”
The organization achieves its mission of preserving the natural resources, historic places and working lands of North Florida by purchasing or receiving donations of land, as well as by helping public agencies with real estate transactions.
Feb 17, 2021
April 29 will mark the first day of the strangest of NFL marriages, when the perfect prospect and the imperfect franchise begin their journey together.
Trevor Lawrence has been on the NFL radar since his days at Cartersville (Ga.) High School. He’s 6 6 but has the quickness and twitchy athleticism of a much smaller man. The ball spins off his hand with preternatural ease. Theoretically, he can run any offensive system an NFL coaching staff can dream up. And as far as the traits translating to production: He won a national title as a 19-year-old freshman at Clemson and left campus with a career record of 38–2. More than that, his distinctive long, shampoo-commercial-quality blond hair makes him the most recognizable prospect to enter the NFL in … perhaps ever.
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05:20 AM EST Share Efforts by President Tommy Hazouri and others fell short to reduce the taxpayer investment in Shad Khan’s $450 million development.
A City Council Committee of the Whole spent nearly 10 hours Jan. 7 making changes to the bill authorizing a $245.3 million taxpayer-backed incentives package for Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan’s proposed Lot J development, but the core package remains unchanged.
When the $450 million public-private partnership between the city, Khan’s company Gecko Investments LLC and development partner The Cordish Companies heads to the full Council Jan 12 for a final vote, it will have a city-backed $65.5 million “breadbox” loan and no financial clawback provisions.
10:10 PM EST Share The $450 million mixed-use project will next face a final vote for the Jacksonville Jaguars-led deal Jan. 12.
A City Council Committee of the Whole voted 15-4 to advance a $245.3 million taxpayer-backed incentives package for Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan’s proposed Lot J entertainment and retail venue west of TIAA Bank Field.
The Council’s action Jan. 7 sets up a final vote next week on the $450 million development that is a partnership between the city, Khan company Gecko Investments LLC and Baltimore, Maryland-based The Cordish Companies.
The final vote for the Lot J incentives.
Council members Matt Carlucci, Al Ferraro, Danny Becton and President Tommy Hazouri voted against the bill.