Jacksonville Port Authority is KO’d?
Posted on 31 March 2009 by k. a. gardner
courtesy of Jaxport
Ron Littlepage, the Florida Times-Union’s overly-opinionated LOCAL POLITICS columnist, on March 30, 2008 2009, continued his relentless assault on his seeming nemesis, the Jacksonville Port Authority.
A complicated eminent-domain case, which involved multiple parties and environmental impact studies, has ended after four years. Although a circuit-court judge ruled an appellate court may reduce [Brigham Moore] attorney fees by 73 percent, Jaxport has chosen instead to save time by settling with the firm for $6.6 million.
Once again, Littlepage disregards all facts in which he has no need.
He writes: If it had been a prizefight, the Jacksonville Port Authority would be flat on its back seeing stars and talking gibberish.
The authority make the mistake of picking a fight with Keystone Coal and threw the first punch.
As this PRIZEFIGHT was ongoing, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines’ Trapac Container Terminal is up and running just west of the Dames Point Bridge. Hanjin Shipping Co., South Korea’s largest carrier, is slated to open an adjacent 90-acre site in 2011.
Carnival Cruise is a Jaxport tenant until that time.
St. Johns Ferry courtesy Jaxport
St. Johns River ferry, connects State Road A1A between historic Mayport and Ft. George Island and is operated by Jaxport, which supports maintenance at its own expense.
The Jacksonville Port Authority, one of 14 ports in the State of Florida, is under the jurisdiction of the Florida Dept. Of Transportation.
Littlepage doesn’t “understand why heads haven’t rolled at Jaxport.”
Perhaps Jaxport’s predominant business of international trade is far beyond LOCAL POLITICS and well over …
LITTLEPAGE’S head.
– k. a. gardner
The Jacksonville Port Authority Board has agreed to sell about 38 acres of waterfront property to the man who successfully prevented the authority from taking his nearby land through eminent domain a little more than a year ago.
Keystone Coal Co. owner Tom Scholl will receive $6.6 million for the property in exchange for paying his attorney’s legal fees of $10.5 million, which the authority was ordered to pay. Under the arrangement, Scholl won’t pursue legal action against the authority for business allegedly lost when the 70 acres at the northern terminal of Talleyrand Avenue were under threat of eminent domain.
Tags | Hanjin Shipping Co., Jacksonville Port Authority, Trapac Container Terminal
In my business, too, we appreciate Koreans.
And which business are you in, weirsdo?