Excerpt from Florida Times-Union. Read the entire article here.
by Steve Patterson, September 18, 2021
A building-materials company is moving ahead with plans to redevelop a long-polluted patch of Jacksonville’s Talleyrand waterfront as a logistics site for delivering gypsum.
“This project will return a heavily contaminated Superfund site to productive use, creating dozens of full-time jobs and strengthening our company’s ability to serve our customers,” Jay Bachmann, vice president of CertainTeed Gypsum Product Group, said in a release announcing the decision.
The company committed to the project after Jacksonville’s City Council approved a development agreement this week offering up to $3.4 million in property tax breaks over 20 years on the property at 1611 Talleyrand Ave. in the city's Eastside.
To get the tax breaks, the agreement required CertainTeed to invest at least $55 million and create at least 20 jobs by the end of 2024, but the company projects employing 32 truck drivers and dockworkers.