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January 25 2011
Rachael Spangler has new letters after her name…
January 10 2011
Low-rate deal provides for first-rate hospital expansion.
The other financial advisors said it was a deal that couldn’t be done. But experience and persistence proved them wrong as the team of Innovative Capital, JJCA and AHFD, veterans of the HUD 242 process, were successful in obtaining financing for an expansion project for Effingham Hospital in Springfield, Georgia. At 3.75%, the lowest interest rate ever received on a HUD 242 project, Effingham’s loan, financed with Build American Bonds, will provide for a first-rate, 57,621 square foot, two-story addition that will include new admitting, emergency, surgery, central sterile, outpatient surgery, lab and imaging departments. In anticipation of a competitive bidding situation and to maximize flexibility for Effingham, a one-story Alzheimer’s unit and finish upgrades for 23 existing patient rooms were included in the documents as potential additions to the project.
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January 3 2011
Davis-Kidd Booksellers
Well before Starbucks became the iconic gathering place, Karen Davis and Thelma Kidd of Nashville envisioned an inviting gathering place with plenty of informal seating space, and the availability of a warm beverage or snack. But at the heart of this gathering place would be books. And magazines. And special places for children to gather to hear stories and gain a greater appreciation for the value of reading. Davis and Kidd couldn’t have imagined how wildly successful the open, airy bookstore with its sky-lit, two story atrium in the heart of Grace’s Plaza would become. The small café eventually grew into the adjacent atrium. The store was expanded to provide a larger children’s area and a larger area for periodicals and newspapers. A new space was created for storytelling and bookselling.
During its 30 years in Nashville, Davis-Kidd Booksellers became a local institution. It was a place where both nationally-known and local authors held book-signings. A generation grew up searching for the perfect book, meeting their friends, even stealing their first kiss among the bookshelves – and then bringing their own children to experience the same.
Nashvillians are keenly aware of how the Davis-Kidd Bookseller story ends. The darling of local bookstores closed its doors one last time on December 29, 2010. Some might say the end was predictable when Davis and Kidd sold the company in 1997 and the new owners later moved the store out of the Grace’s Plaza location. Others say technology makes the ultimate demise of all traditional bookstores inevitable. Few, however, would argue that the Grace’s Plaza store was a magical place. Quoted in one of many articles about the store’s closure, Thelma Kidd reminisced:
“The physical space was wonderful, those two floors above ground. True, it wasn’t as easy to merchandise. We paid for all that air and light, but it was worth it, because we created an environment where people wanted to spend time.”
We’re all saddened by the store’s closure. While this may not be a story with a traditional “happily ever after ending”, any story responsible for three decades of happy memories is one worth telling. We’re proud to have been the architects behind the creation of such a special space.
January 1 2011
Twenty Years!
The year 2011 is a momentous occasion for JJCA. It’s our 20thanniversary – the anniversary celebrated with the gift of platinum as a symbol for strong and enduring relationships. And so it is with the theme of enduring relationships in mind that we set out to share, over the course of this year, stories of 20 of the clients with whom we’ve developed special relationships over the years.
We’ve worked largely in the healthcare arena, helping community hospitals build, expand and renovate facilities that can compete effectively with their metropolitan neighbors. We’ve become experts in dealing with the complexities of HUD 242 financing, allowing many of our hospital partners to obtain affordable financing without which their facilities wouldn’t have been possible. Our healthcare projects have given us the opportunity to work in dozens of different states, including most recently, Alaska. And we’ve now begun our first international project in Vietnam.
While healthcare has been our mainstay, you may be surprised to learn that we’ve also been involved in some very interesting projects of an educational nature. One of these projects has a bittersweet story, particularly poignant for the local Nashville crowd. Maybe even the locals don’t recall that JJCA was the architect for the original Davis-Kidd Booksellers store in Nashville. We’ve chosen to share this as our first story.