Q: Phase I of the Sulzbacher Enterprise Village project is a workforce apartment component that will provide housing to unhoused men. It is on track to be completed by November 2026.
Phase II will be a 16,000-square-foot skilled trade and jobs training facility in partnership with Goodwill Industries of North Florida and Florida State College at Jacksonville. It is still nearly two years away, likely in late 2027 to early 2028. And a tiny house manufacturing facility that will employ up to 150 people is further into the future.
Jacksonville Today reader Ann C. notes that skilled trades jobs are supposed to be available to the community. During a Q&A with the Brentwood Neighbors Forum on Dec. 2, she posed a question:
A: Sulzbacher CEO Cindy Funkhouser tells Jacksonville Today that the nonprofit expects “a good deal” of media coverage when it cuts the ribbon on the manufacturing phase. But she says news of the job openings also will be sent out on social media and the Sulzbacher website…