The Florida Times Union reports that Citi plans to hire an additional 500 on top of about 3,500 employees already working at its Jacksonville financial operations
Here are a few other recent announcements:
Company name: Macquarie Group.
Industry: International banking.
News: Opening a new downtown office in early 2016.
Jobs: 123. Average wage will be about $64,000.
Date of announcement: July 2015
Incentives: City approved a package worth $393,600 and the state is adding $1.37 million.
Company name: Cooper’s Hawk Winery and Restaurant.
Industry: Service industry.
News: The Chicago-based chain restaurant is going into the Markets at Town Center spot where Whisky River closed last year.
Jobs: 200. The restaurant is holding a hiring fair for those positions at its new Jacksonville location, 4880 Big Island Drive in the Markets at Town Center. It will be held from noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 1 and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept 2.
Date of announcement: June 2015.
Incentives. None.
Company name: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care.
Industry: Contact lens plant.
News: The company is planning a $300 million expansion to its contact-lens plant in Jacksonville.
Jobs: 100. The jobs will pay an average of about $60,000 per year and will be filled by the end of 2017.
Date of announcement: May 2015.
Incentives: The company will receive $7.1 million from the city and $90.3 million from the state in tax relief.
Company name: Home Depot.
Industry: Retail, home improvement and construction.
News: The company announced it was on a hiring spree in Jacksonville as part of a push to add 80,000 more temporary workers nationwide for its busy spring season.
Jobs. 585. Those jobs were part of its seasonal hires.
Date of announcement: February 2015.
Incentives: None.
