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The Jacksonville Aviation Authority board voted unanimously July 27 to ratify a contract up to $6.9 million to RS&H Inc. for engineering design and construction phase services for the proposed third parking garage at Jacksonville International Airport.

The authority wants to add 2,000 spaces in a third garage proposed on a lot next to an existing facility.

Karis Cold paid $2.87 million for land in Westlake Industrial Park in West Jacksonville to develop a cold storage warehouse.

Through KCS Icebox Jax 1 LLC, Karis Cold bought the land June 29 from Westlake Land Management Inc.

The city and St. Johns River Water Management District have been reviewing plans for Karis to develop more than 24 acres in Westlake Industrial Park to develop a warehouse on a wooded and undeveloped site along Pritchard Road.

Toronto, Canada-based First Gulf expects to buy West Jacksonville property the first week of July to develop its first U.S. industrial park at an anticipated investment of more than $50 million.

“We are exporting our industrial development platform, and we’ve chosen Jacksonville to be our first market,” said Roman Brailovski, First Gulf vice president of strategic initiatives and operations and the lead on its U.S. expansion, on June 27.

Don Eduardo Cocina Mexicana, a new concept from the owners of Cinco de Mayo restaurants, intends to open this fall at 2665 Park St., at northwest King and Park streets in Riverside.

It will be one of several new tenants at the property, now called Park & King, which changed hands in March.

The property is represented by The Urban Division of the Colliers commercial real estate company. 

Construction of an eight-story Hilton Hotel at the Mayo Clinic in Florida campus will begin this summer, the hospital announced June 26.

The 252-room hotel is expected to be completed in 2025. It is on the south side of the campus near Butler Boulevard where a new entrance to Mayo Clinic is open called Transformation Way.