Project Frontier: Defining the first building location
Following Thursday’s JOED Executive Committee [...]
Project Frontier stormwater design nears completion
JOED met with Project Frontier engineer Jason Houston, City of Jacksonville Councilman Bob Warden, and City staff Wally Hansen, Anthony Prinz, and Ron Massey this week. Jason outlined the preliminary site design, meeting the group’s approval, pending the approval of permits. The next step will be to reconvene the JOED Building Committee to create notional [...]
Attracting “other people’s money”
On Wednesday, JOED facilitated a meeting between Brian Merrion, Buxton V-P of Sales and Anthony Prinz, City of Jacksonville; Teresa Beacham, Viamark Advertising; Chris Davis, Hampton Inn; John Hunter, The Hunter Family Company; and Scott Franko, Treasure Realty. The group convened to preview Buxton’s powerful data collection and analysis tools, using multiple queries including tourism [...]
A busy beginning to a new fiscal year
JOED hosted its annual New Directors Orientation this week for L-R: Derrick Remer, Duke Energy; Terri Ashby, Truist; and John Hunter, The Hunter Family Company, Inc. We started with the history, structure, mission, and vision of JOED as well as the JOED partnership. We reviewed the completed projects of the past 5 years, noting how [...]
Project Frontier’s design phase is underway
Reviewing the scope of work, timeline and budget for the design phase of Project Frontier at City Hall are L-R: Jacksonville Councilman Bob Warden and Transportation Services Director Anthony Prinz; Mark Sutherland, JOED; Jason Huston, Tidewater Engineering; and Jacksonville Interim City Manager Ron Massey Since it will yield industrial sites and the construction of speculative industrial [...]
JOEDP Development Committee at work
The JOED Partnership Economic Development Fund Committee met with Sheldon Bartel last week via Zoom. L-R: Cowanda and Randy Bazile, Roy Herrick, JOEDP Chairman Scott Riggs, John Hunter, Mark Sutherland, and Ruth Christian. (Not pictured: Ed Garris, Dr. Penny Burlingame Deal, Melissa Anderson, and Chuck Uzzell) We recently introduced you to consultant Sheldon Bartel, who [...]
Camp Davis Industrial Park Phase III, Project Kickoff
The Town of Holly Ridge hosted a Duke Site Readiness Project Kick Off meeting yesterday. Danny Ottaway highlights the boundaries of his property within a potential Camp Davis Industrial Park Phase III. What is the process for advancing raw land into a prepared and marketable site for industrial development? The first step is to bring [...]
JOED Partnership to be awarded $1M for Project Frontier
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C., (June 2, 2022) – Today, the Golden LEAF Board of Directors awarded $5,046,526 in funding to support projects through the second round of the SITE Program. The SITE Program supports communities in identifying potential sites for economic development and provides funds to enable completion of due diligence on sites already identified or [...]
JOED Partnership’s Development Fund Committee is underway
JOED Partnership’s Development Fund Committee met last week to begin laying the framework for this fund, which will be operated through the 50(c)3 Partnership. L-R: Scott Riggs, R. S. Riggs & Associates, LLC Manager & CEO and JOEDP Development Fund Chairman; Ed Garris, First National Bank Sr. Vice President; Cowanda Bazile, Express Employment Professionals owner, [...]
State of our Local Economy and Annual Investors Meeting slides
CLICK HERE to view the slides from JOED's May 19, 2022 State of our Local Economy and Annual Investors Meeting
