Downtown Jacksonville’s oldest federal office building could be for sale.
A six-member government panel will look at the benefits of selling the Charles E. Bennett Federal Building and nine other older structures across the Southeast to private developers. The move would save the government millions of dollars in estimated repairs.
Any decision about the building at 400 W. Bay St. would not happen until at least the end of this year, after the Public Buildings Reform Board discusses all 10 federal properties in Jacksonville; West Palm Beach; Savannah, Georgia; and Charleston and Columbia, South Carolina…