05:00 PM EST Share The 16-year city utility executive was rehired in May to ‘right the ship’ after an attempt to sell it.
The JEA board of directors honored interim Managing Director and CEO Paul McElroy during its monthly meeting Dec. 11 with an official send-off.
McElroy leaves the city-owned utility after a seven-month tenure where he purged senior executives involved in the last year’s attempt to sell JEA.
He worked to reduce the size of JEA’s next corporate headquarters building Downtown and settled the utility’s legal fight with Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia over a purchase power agreement for nuclear Plant Vogtle.
Minneapolis-based Ryan owns the 1.54-acre site at 225 N. Pearl St. Downtown.
Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. is the civil engineer. Ryan A+E Inc. is the architect and interior designer.
The building is designed as 162,741 square feet among seven occupiable floors and the penthouse mechanical level, so it is listed as eight levels.
Ryan broke ground on the project Oct. 22 after beginning site work in August.
In June, the Downtown Development Review Board approved JEA’s scaled-down, lower-cost design for the city-owned utility’s next Downtown headquarters. It now is at 21 W. Church St.
The board approved Ryan’s smaller 162,000-square-foot redesign and adjacent 657-space parking garage.