A London-based recruitment company that won City Council approval for incentives 15 months ago will lease space in the Prominence office park.
A building permit issued Thursday shows that Resource Solutions will lease space at 8381 Dix Ellis Trail, which is Building 500, at the Prominence center in Baymeadows.
Veronica Valdes, a company public relations account manager, said by email Tuesday that Resource Solutions opened its Jacksonville Global Service Center operations in January 2016 with 15 employees.
Valdes said that employment has risen to 35 and the company is on track to reach 50 employees in its second year of operation.
Resource Solutions currently operates at the Deerwood North office park at 4600 Touchton Road E.
Asked about the additional space in Prominence, Valdes said she could not comment on plans to expand.
Asked specifically whether the Global Service Center would remain at Deerwood North, relocate to Prominence or occupy both offices, Valdes said she was unable to confirm details about the size or expansion.
There is some indication of more permanence at Prominence. The Touchton Road address is in the My Executive Center, which offers executive suites with flexible lease terms.
The building permit shows that Center, Knight & May Contractors LLC will build out 10,714 square feet on the first floor of the five-story building at Prominence at a project cost of $363,714.
Plans show team areas, conference rooms, an interview room, break-out rooms, management space and more.
David Hillegas, senior associate with Cushman & Wakefield, represented Resource Solutions in the lease. Jesse Shimp, vice president with JLL, represented the landlord. Both declined comment.
City Council adopted Ordinance 2015-833 on Dec. 8, 2015, to approve an economic development agreement. Incentives total $225,000 from the Qualified Target Industry Tax Refund Program, of which $45,000 would come from the city and $180,000 from the state.
Resource Solutions proposed to create at least 75 full-time jobs over three years at an average wage of $49,340. The QTI funds would not be paid until the company created the jobs, the state verified the wages and the company paid its taxes.
The agreement calls for the refund to be made over a proposed six-year payout, starting this year. The jobs must be created by year-end 2018.
Resource Solutions is a subsidiary of the Robert Walters Group. It says its services include discovery audits, supplier relationship management, direct recruitment, development and execution of client brand-led talent attraction strategies and the TalentSource web-based recruitment system and payroll service.
When the company, known by the code name Project Lance, applied for incentives, it said it employed more than 2,600 people among offices on five continents. Its U.S. regional office is in New York.
The Jacksonville office is one of four Global Service Center offices, with the other three in Manchester in the United Kingdom; Johannesburg, South Africa; and Hyderabad, India.
As of November 2015, it said its clients included Morgan Stanley, Visa, J.P. Morgan, Samsung, Warner Brothers and Honeywell among 45 companies in 40 countries.
At the time, Resource Solutions said the project was scheduled for spring 2016 to support the international recruitment outsourcing firm’s focus on global expansion.
The company and economic developers credited the Jacksonville decision, at least to some degree, to a meeting in London in October 2015. That’s when city leaders met with prospects in connection with the annual Jacksonville Jaguars game played in London.
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