Deutsche Bank adding 250 jobs in Jacksonville

[thelakelander]

Good news.  Deutsche is adding to their Southside office.  They currently employ 600 but hope to have 1,000 workers by 2011.

http://jacksonville.com/business/2009-11-09/story/deutsche_bank_adding_250_jobs_in_jacksonville

[Captain Zissou]

Their southside office is a 1 story cubicle farm..  I'm glad to have them here, but I hope they upgrade their space, both for their employees' sake and the city's.

[jandar]

Fun, nothing like cubicle world on a single level.

Good for Jax though, keep the jobs coming.

[heights unknown]

Fantastic news for "Big Jax."  As someone who has lived in Germany, the Europeans, and the Germans take great care of their employees.  Maybe they'll move the main flux and/or core of their operations downtown soon and build a 900 foot skyscraper and become the signature employer within the City (I know...wishful thinking).

Heights Unknown

[Jason]

Looks like they keep on growing.

Send your resumes!

Success drives Deutsche Bank expansion in Jacksonville

Company to invest $10M, will create 260 new jobs

Jacksonville Business Journal by Christian Conte, Reporter
Date: Friday, July 20, 2012, 6:00am EDT

JACKSONVILLE â€" Deutsche Bank’s 2008 move to Jacksonville has turned out to be even better than initially expected for both the bank and the city.

Four years after opening the global support center with 100 employees, the German global investment bank has not only met its initial target of 1,000 employees, but is also expanding the job functions and adding up to 260 more jobs at its Southside campus. At least one of the new job functions, investment trading, is new to Jacksonville.

“That’s really new and exciting,” Jerry Mallot, president of JaxUSA Partnership, said of the new jobs. “It’s ...

Read the rest at Jax BUisness Journal:
http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/print-edition/2012/07/20/success-drives-deutsche-bank-expansion.html

[mtraininjax]

Wow, the Southside keeps growing, where is the MJ outrage? No move downtown? Come on man!!!!

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Wow, the Southside keeps growing, where is the MJ outrage? No move downtown? Come on man!!!!

They're just doing a remodel on an existing building.  I think the word is 'infill'. 

[mtraininjax]

I will let everyone know something good for Downtown, Wells Fargo (Modis/Independent Life) Building, kicked Colliers out, essentially to the BofA building, because Wells needed more room for its operations. So Wells Fargo is expanding into the Colliers space, which means more people downtown and a larger presence for them, and Colliers is staying downtown in the BofA building. So that is a good thing for downtown.

[mtraininjax]

No one on the site dislikes the south side or any other area.  There are good reasons why people choose those areas, and all of them have to do with the governing incompetence of our public policy.

as you drip in sarcasm, I love it!

[mtraininjax]

But that has nothing to do with the wisdom of the market.  The fact is we have made our urban areas either unbearable or illegal to live in, and  created such an inequity of experience that a rational family really has no other choice other than to settle in the suburbs.

So Mayor Brown has it wrong to want to bring business downtown? If the suburbs are the home of the "rational family", are the irrational families destined to live downtown or in communities near downtown? Springfield, Riverside, Avondale, rational or irrational?

Inside Duval, are the suburbs really that much more appealing than the urban areas? Having lived in the suburb (Mandarin) and now urban (Avondale) I would go with urban 8 days a week. But that is me. I consider myself rational, although others on the MJ board would contradict that statement. 

[fsquid]

The support jobs that initially came don't belong in a downtown anyways.  These kind of jobs are always in an office park somewhere regardless of the city.

[mtraininjax]

But when a newcomer moves to jacksonville, proximity to work, newness of schools, availability of shopping and modernity of amenities lead you naturally to the south side.

Stephen, no way jose! When someone contacts Visit Jacksonville, the VJ folks say, "Oh, well, you need to stay close in a neighborhood to where you work". Realtors, and my wife is a very successful one, are NOT supposed to push people in one direction over another, but they do.

Southside is also a large area, which area of the Southside do you reference specifically? Jax is an easy drive around town too, and we do not have Atlanta/Miami/DC traffic, so you can live on the westside and commute to the beaches for little these days with MPG the way it has gone. So I don't buy the argument that the Southside is the bedroom community of Jacksonville. Guess the westside, northside, and beaches should just fall into hell now and let the Southside carry the county?

[Tacachale]

Look, the point is, new jobs for Jax are new jobs for Jax. Clearly most of us here want to enhance our urban environment, but no one with any sense is going to complain about new jobs that don't happen to be downtown.