Winn-Dixie Foundation donates $1M-plus to charities

The Winn-Dixie Foundation presented a total of nearly $1.1 million in charitable donations to 39 nonprofit community organizations throughout the Southeast.

The Central Florida organizations that benefited from the foundation's donations were: Boy Scouts of America, Communities in Schools of Florida, Harvest House Community Development Corp., Latino Leadership, Seminole North Little League, Sumter County Parks & Recreation, United Negro College Fund and Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida.

Other organizations in the Tampa, Jacksonville, Miami and New Orleans areas also received donations.

The donations included $75,000 worth of food from Jacksonville-based Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. for New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Jacksonville food banks.

The Western Union Foundation matched four $25,000 Winn-Dixie Foundation contributions to two food banks in Louisiana and two in Tampa Bay.

The Winn-Dixie Foundation -- which provides grants to local nonprofit organizations focused on hunger, women and children, youth, education and health initiatives -- is funded by The Winn-Dixie Charity Classic.

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Jurkovich joins Waller Lansden law firm's government relations practice

Former Mayor's Office of Economic Development Director Tom Jurkovich has joined the Nashville law office of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis LLP as a partner in the firm's government relations practice.

Jurkovich, who was the point person for business recruitment and economic development in the mayor's office, will represent clients involved in major retail, residential and commercial development projects.

He will also represent Waller Lansden clients in local, state and federal government affairs.

"Tom Jurkovich has had a direct hand in much of Nashville's remarkable growth over the past six years," says Waller Lansden Chairman Ralph Davis in a release. "Like all who worked with Tom on major projects throughout the city, we well know his energy and experience. We're delighted that our clients will have the benefit of Tom's talents."

Besides business recruitment and development, Jurkovich's role in the Office of Economic Development entailed outreach to the business community and the coordination of downtown initiatives.

He also represented the administration on boards of the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority, Nashville Chamber of Commerce, Nashville Downtown Partnership, Nashville Technology Council and the Nashville Sports Council.

Before joining the mayor's office, Jurkovich represented Microsoft Corp. in the Washington, D.C. government, legislative and political community as the company's federal government affairs manager.

A native of Nashville, Jurkovich earned a bachelor's degree in history from Vanderbilt University in 1979 and a degree in law in 1983 from the University of Tennessee College of Law.

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Distribution center nearing completion

Campanelli Cos. is developing a 184,000-square-foot cold storage distribution center on the Westside for an undisclosed amount.

The Preferred Freezer Services facility at 1780 W. Beaver St. is scheduled to be done in the first quarter 2008. The facility is one of 15 Campanelli is building or has built for Preferred Freezer.

The Jacksonville facility will employee about 50 people and will have 134,000 square feet of freezer space; 38,000 square feet of dock and mechanical room space and 12,000 square feet of office space.

Preferred Freezer is a full-service public refrigerated warehouse provider with about 600 employees and 23 existing or under construction locations in nine states. The company averages more than $100 million in annual sales.

The Jacksonville facility will house frozen food that will be sold to distributors and wholesalers for import and export.

Campanelli Cos. is a full-service commercial real estate development firm based in Braintree, Mass. It has developed more than 16 million square feet of commercial real estate property in New England and the Eastern Seaboard.

Campanelli has finished Preferred Freezer's headquarters in Newark, N.J., and cold storage distribution centers in Atlanta; Philadelphia; Norfolk, Va.; and Raynham, Sharon, and Westfield, Mass. Campanelli is building Preferred Freezer facilities in Elizabeth, N.J., and Everett, Mass.
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Developers name first tenants for Brentwood shopping center

REI, Banana Republic, Chico's, Jos. A. Bank and Talbots are among the major tenants that will be part of the upscale Streets of Brentwood retail development.

A list of 25 tenants at the 400,000-square-foot lifestyle center was announced Friday by developers Continental Real Estate Cos. of Columbus, Ohio, and Retail West Inc. of San Francisco. It will eventually have more than 60 tenants when it opens in fall 2008.

Other tenants planning to have stores at the center, located at the northeast corner of Highway 4 and Sandy Creek Road include American Eagle Outfitters, Bath & Body Works, Children's Place, Coldwater Creek, Gymboree, Hollister, J. Jill, LensCrafters, Limited Too, Sunglass Hut, Victoria's Secret and White House/Black Market.

Continental has developed more than $2 billion worth of mixed-use retail, multi-family housing and multiple-use office space nationwide. Retail West specializes in retail site selection and tenant and landlord representation and has handled more than 1.3 million square feet of retail transactions during 2007.

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Madison Marquette fined, fired over license dispute

The Ohio Real Estate Commission has levied a $200,000 fine against Madison Marquette Realty Services for leasing space without a broker's license at Tower Place Mall downtown and at the Lane Avenue Shopping Center in Upper Arlington, near Columbus.

A company spokesman said the violation stemmed from an "unfortunate administrative oversight" that has since been corrected.

"I guess they just didn't renew the license," said Jeff Ingram, with Ein Communications, a public-relations firm in Washington, D.C. "Once being notified, they were able to rectify it within two weeks."

A consultant for the mall's new owner, Northeastern Security Development Corp., said the company was surprised to learn the Madison Marquette had no commercial license.

"We are going to be changing managers," said Mayer Davis."It's going to be CB Richard Ellis."

Madison Marquette is a real estate development and advisory firm founded in 1989 by former executives of Macy's Inc. predecessor, Federated Department Stores. The firm was headquartered in Cincinnati until 2002, when it moved to Washington to reflect its growing national real estate portfolio. Its local projects have included the condo conversion of the old McAlpin's department store and Fountain Place, where it partnered with Belvedere Corp., Towne Properties and Duke Realty to build a new Macy's store in 1997.

Madison Marquette has managed and leased the Tower Place retail complex downtown since 2004. According to documents filed with the real estate commission, it marketed the mall to prospective tenants without a license between February 2005 and February 2007. The Real Estate Commission agreed to settle the case with a $200,000 penalty on Dec. 7.

Complaints involving non-licensed brokers leasing space are "fairly common" and on the rise, said Dennis Ginty, a spokesman for commission.

"The division is complaint-driven. When complaints are received, we investigate," he said.

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