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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #60 on: September 20, 2012, 03:09:59 PM »
How is 100 people coming downtown not substantive?  That's 20,000 square feet of office space or more.  If we can regularly have announcements like this, we'll have a considerably larger DT workforce by this time next year.
I meant substantive to the point leading the Mayor, City Council president, and company to throw a party over the news. 50 new people is wonderful, but it's hardly the kind of thing that requires a press conference.

I disagree.  Even though it's a small number, by holding the presser, it gets the word out that people are moving back to the core.  I see it as advertising, and that's not a bad thing in my book. 

But after a few 50 here, 25 there, 100 over there, maybe that will be the jumpstart we need to get the 500, 1,000 person business to move as well.
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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #61 on: September 20, 2012, 03:13:36 PM »
Every person who moves downtown, whether to live or work, is a net plus for the city. How the mayor's office wants to handle that is within their discretion. Personally, I think press conferences should be saved for bigger events, but hell, in this day and age and with the rate downtown is progressing, 100 people IS a big event.
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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #62 on: September 20, 2012, 04:17:41 PM »
I actually think publicizing prominent firms making the move is a good thing.  Everybody wants a positive news story written about them and I think the city is doing the right thing by over exaggerating every deal that comes downtown.  It's like a public pat on the back, a "welcome to the club" kind of thing that maybe means more and more companies will want the same press and same pat on the back and to be part of the same thing as Everbank and MassMutual.
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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #63 on: September 20, 2012, 04:32:21 PM »
^ Excellent point.  It isn't as much about the administration patting themselves on the back as it is giving the company moving to downtown a chance for some free PR.  Others will take notice and want a piece of that.

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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #64 on: September 20, 2012, 04:36:18 PM »
A whopping 50 more people coming downtown?!? Quick, we need more parking spaces.  ;D Just kidding, I agree with announcing the move because hopefully it will start a trend, and it makes companies picture their names in the headlines for moving downtown. Its just another step closer to where we want to be as it relates to downtown. The more workers downtown, the more chances ppl will utilize the FREE (atleast for the moment) Skyway. I really would like to see the Skyway extented in all of it's directions (Sports complex, San Marco, Riverside, Springfield).

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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #65 on: September 20, 2012, 07:17:50 PM »
I don't think the Mayor has press conferences when someone creates 50 jobs on the suburban fringes of the city...so in that regard, it shows that he does actually value Downtown and is placing importance on its comeback.

I'd also be interested to know a little more about the type of jobs Mass Mutual is bringing and planning on creating. If they are moderate to high paying jobs, this is definitely newsworthy for Downtown and the urban core.

Downtown isn't going to magically comeback overnight. We need to celebrate every incremental improvement that happens...because over time the incremental increases will add up to large scale changes.

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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #66 on: August 08, 2014, 12:31:36 PM »
Everbank to move 400 more jobs downtown:

http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=543612

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EverBank to move 400 more jobs Downtown
Friday, August 8, 12:26 PM EDT

By Karen Brune Mathis, Managing Editor
EverBank Financial Corp. will move about 400 more jobs Downtown, the Jacksonville-based company confirmed Friday.

Upon the move, the company will employ more than 1,800 associates in the Downtown EverBank Center at 301 W. Bay St.

EverBank spokeswoman Kipin Alexander said the latest move is in the planning stages and details weren’t available about which group would be moving and when.

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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #67 on: August 08, 2014, 02:13:10 PM »
^^^Excellent news.

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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #68 on: August 08, 2014, 02:27:03 PM »
JBJ story says they will all be coming from Cypress Plaza and this will make it that all employees are either here or in the Riverside Ave facility.

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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #69 on: August 08, 2014, 02:35:49 PM »
Wow! This is excellent news! 400 more bodies + the foot traffic Sweet Pete's will generate + the Barnett (assuming it's still moving forward, still haven't seen any activity recently). This will be great for the core.

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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #70 on: August 08, 2014, 07:02:58 PM »
Things are a chang'n!

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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #71 on: February 20, 2019, 02:47:13 PM »
I'm hearing some really bad things out of TIAA Bank today.

Sounds like some major cuts are taking place  :(

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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #72 on: February 20, 2019, 02:55:41 PM »
I'm hearing some really bad things out of TIAA Bank today.

Sounds like some major cuts are taking place  :(

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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #73 on: February 20, 2019, 09:01:06 PM »
They may have to let go of their naming rights to Municipal Stadium.  Could we have a Waffle House stadium in our future?
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Re: EverBank Coming Downtown, Now What?
« Reply #74 on: February 20, 2019, 09:30:24 PM »
I'm hearing some really bad things out of TIAA Bank today.

Sounds like some major cuts are taking place  :(



Weird that it hasn't hit the press, but the ENTIRE retail branch side has apparently been killed.

Wonder how many total jobs that is.

Weird, I thought retail branch was one of the reasons TIAA bought Everbank to begin with.