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EverBank seeks help to stay downtown as DIA flags large pipeline of completion-grant requests

Special Committee on the Future Downtown · February 9, 2026
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Summary

DIA told the committee EverBank is asking for assistance to remain downtown and that EverBank estimates a cost differential of roughly $1.4M (earlier) and a request figure of about $980,000 (Tarbert cited), with potential payments starting in 2027; Tarbert also presented a downtown development pipeline totaling ~ $1.14 billion and said active completion-grant requests currently total about $66M, with possible additional requests up to $225M depending on projects.

Committee members spent the afternoon discussing two interrelated financial issues: (1) a pending request from EverBank for incentives to remain in its downtown office and (2) a broader list of completion-grant requests and the downtown development pipeline.

Colin Tarbert said EverBank has asked for assistance to keep a major private office lease downtown rather than relocate to a suburban campus. Tarbert summarized the EverBank request to DIA as "about $980,000" and explained that earlier estimates put the annual delta of downtown occupancy versus suburbs at roughly $1.4 million, driven largely by parking and security expenses. Tarbert emphasized the risk to downtown momentum if a large tenant departs and said any incentive would be…

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