Michelle Clipp, a 35-year-old married Jacksonville mother of two children under the age of 3, developed a taste for entrepreneurship.

After 13 years in health care sales leadership that required travel and with a desire to work more closely with her San Marco neighborhood, Clipp is venturing into the first Florida franchise for an Alabama-based cookie company.

That is Cookie Fix, a Birmingham shop that opened in 2016 and now has two corporate stores in its home state and one in Atlanta. There are six franchised locations throughout the South in Alabama, Georgia and Tennessee.

“Our target market is anyone with taste buds,” Clipp said.

The city issued a permit July 7 for Interior Buildouts Inc. of Jacksonville to build-out 1,184 square feet of space at 2020 Hendricks Ave. at a project co

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