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Johnson & Johnson Vision is working on at least $57 million in investments at its Jacksonville disposable contact lens manufacturing plant in Deerwood Park on the Southside.

The city issued a permit Oct. 17 for an almost $30.71 million project to renovate space to install new equipment at the 7500 Centurion Parkway plant.

Canopy Road Cafe appears to be leasing the space next to Huey Magoo’s Chicken Tenders in Mandarin.

The city is reviewing a permit application for an estimated $275,000 build-out for Canopy Road Cafe in part of a 4,000-square-foot building at 10560 Old St. Augustine Road.

Homesense says on the us.homesense.com site that it will open its Jacksonville store Nov. 2 in Riverplace Shopping Center in Mandarin.

Store hours are 9:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday and 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday.

There now are six Homesense stores in Florida in Lake Mary, New Tampa, Port St. Lucie, Sarasota and Sunrise, with the Fort Myers store opening Oct. 26.

Mayor Donna Deegan and City Council member Jimmy Peluso have called for a one-month delay in the city’s final design review of a proposed mixed-use Daily’s gas station in LaVilla for more community input. 

At Deegan and Peluso’s request, the Downtown Development Review Board deferred its scheduled vote July 27 on First Coast Energy’s plan to build a three-story Daily’s with a convenience store, restaurant and Bold City Brewery on a 1.4-acre block at Bay and Broad streets.

The city issued a permit July 26 for Williams & Rowe Co. Inc. to build-out space for national off-price retailer Burlington at Gateway Town Center in the Brentwood and Norwood area.

The $750,000 project will remodel 24,066 square feet of space at 5258 Norwood Ave.

Gateway Town Center, which opened more than 60 years ago, is adding national retailers Burlington and teen merchandiser Five Below.