Jacksonville’s uphill climb in recovering $210,000 from a business co-owned by City Council member Katrina Brown got harder this week when her mother filed a chapter 11 petition for a separate business called KJB Specialties Inc., which does business as Jerome Brown Barbecue & Wings, the Florida Times-Union reported today. The city filed suit in January to recover the $210,000 grant it gave to Cowealth for a barbecue sauce manufacturing operation on Commonwealth Avenue. The city’s suit contends Cowealth, which is co-owned by Katrina Brown and her mother, Joann, failed to create any of the 56 jobs required by the economic development agreement. Read more.
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