The city is moving ahead with a quarter of a million dollars in incentives for two projects in Northwest Jacksonville that are looking to create a combined 125 jobs.
In return, the city would provide a $200,000 grant from the Northwest Jacksonville Economic Development Fund. The fund is dedicated to creating jobs in a large chunk of Duval County that lies in a triangle stretching north from downtown to the county border and west from downtown along I-10 to Baldwin.
Project Fender was originally introduced a year ago, with the city looking to provide a $250,000 grant and the company planning to invest $7.4 million to build a facility. The project was scaled back when the company went from building to renovating.
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