Southside Construction Update - July/August 2014
A brief look at the status of various projects under construction in and around Jacksonville's Edge City, the Southside, during the months of July and August.
What is an Edge City?
Over the Southside's Blue Cross Blue Shield campus.
The term, Edge City, was popularized in the 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier by Joel Garreau, who established its current meaning while working as a reporter for the Washington Post. Garreau argues that the edge city has become the standard form of urban growth worldwide, representing a 20th-century urban form unlike that of the 19th-century central downtown.
Edge Cities typically consist of mid-rise office towers surrounded by massive surface parking lots and manicured lawns. Instead of a traditional street grid, their infrastructure networks consist of winding parkways (often lacking sidewalks) that feed into arterial roads and freeway ramps. They develop at or near freeway intersections and airports and they rarely include heavy industry. They are large geographically because they are built at automobile scale.
Edge Cities are impossible without the automobile. In Jacksonville, the Southside, specifically the JTB corridor, has developed into our first true Edge City. Because the Southside is our only emerging Edge City in the midst of a development boom, we have decided to expand our monthly construction updates to include this area of Jacksonville.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_city
July/August 2014 Construction Update
1. Corner Bakery Cafe
Corner Bakery Café, intends to open its second Jacksonville restaurant at 7111 Bonneval Road, near Butler Boulevard and Philips Highway.
For more information: https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=542740
2. Shoppes of Gate Parkway
An office building is being constructed at the Shoppes of Gate Parkway near the intersection of Gate Parkway and Point Meadows Drive.
3.Spyglass
Being constructed by Perimeter Realty on East Baymeadows Road, Spyglass will add 220 apartments to the Southside.
4. Vistakon Inc.
Contact lense manufacturer Vistakon Inc. is expanding its distribution center from its current 661,174 square-foot building to 765,401 square feet, an addition of 104,227 square feet. The expansion will add 100 jobs to the 1,800 the company currently employees.
For more information: https://www.visionmonday.com/latest-news/article/vistakon-218-million-expansion-will-increase-acuvue-contact-lens-production-and-add-100-jobs/
5. Renaissance Charter School
Red Apple at Southside LLC has completed a $4.57 million Duval Charter School at 8680 A.C. Skinner Parkway, near JTB and Southside Blvd. The K-6 school contains 68,250 square feet in two stories.
6. Campfield Commons
Campfield Commons is designed between Baymeadows Road East, R.G. Skinner Boulevard and R.G. Skinner Parkway. Gate Petroleum and McDonald's Restaurant are two tenants that have already been announced.
For more information: https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=541234
7. Cancer Specialists of North Florida
The $4.5 million, 12,081-square-foot Cancer Specialists of North Florida at 7015 A.C. Skinner Parkway is now complete.
8. Deerwood Lake Lofts
Construction continues on Deerwood Lake Lofts. The project will add 130 apartment units on an infill site adjacent to Deerwood Lake. Developed by Inland Diversified Real Estate Services, LLC. of Oak Brook, IL, the four story development will include a five-story parking garage.
9. Clarity Pointe Jacksonville
Construction is underway on BCDC BrightPointe Jacksonville LLC's Clarity Pointe memory care center. The 60-bed, 44,899-square-foot center is being developed on 3.43 acres off East Baymeadows Road.
For more information: https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=541234
10. BurgerFi/Vision Works
Rimrock Devlin is in the process of building a $950,000, 7,500 square foot retail building at the Markets at Town Center shopping center. The development's tenants will include Vision Works and BurgerFi. BurgerFi is a South Florida-based upscale, all-natural burger chain that serves burgers, hot dogs, frozen treats and craft beer and wine. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
For more information: https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2013/07/10/rimrock-development-to-open.html
11. Borland-Groover Clinic Administration Building
An expansion project is underway at the Borland-Groover Clinic in Southpoint. When complete, a 12,500-square-foot administrative building and seven parking spaces will be added adjacent to the clinic's existing facility near the intersection of J. Turner Butler Boulevard and Belfort Road.
12. Nordstrom - St. Johns Town Center Phase III
Construction continues on the third phase of St. Johns Town Center. Plans include a two-level 124,000 square foot Nordstrom and 36,000 square feet of retail shops.
13. Another Broken Egg
Another Broken Egg Cafe is nearing completion a new restaurant in Tapestry Park. The Miramar Beach-based breakfast-lunch chain should open in late August.
For more information: https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=543281
14. 9762 Deer Lake Court
The redevelopment of the former TaleGators Restaurant at 9762 Deer Lake Court in Tinseltown is underway. The TBigham Properties 2 LLC expansion and renovation project will transform the former eatery into a daycare.
15. University of North Florida Osprey Clubhouse
The University of North Florida's Osprey Clubhouse is now complete. Construction is now underway on a parking garage in the parking lot adjacent to the clubhouse.
16.Markets at Town Center Expansion
A new retail building for Verizon is being constructed in the parking lot of Markets at Town Center, adjacent to Moxie.
Development update by Ennis Davis, AICP. Contact Ennis at edavis@moderncities.com
Over the Southside's Blue Cross Blue Shield campus.
The term, Edge City, was popularized in the 1991 book Edge City: Life on the New Frontier by Joel Garreau, who established its current meaning while working as a reporter for the Washington Post. Garreau argues that the edge city has become the standard form of urban growth worldwide, representing a 20th-century urban form unlike that of the 19th-century central downtown.
Edge Cities typically consist of mid-rise office towers surrounded by massive surface parking lots and manicured lawns. Instead of a traditional street grid, their infrastructure networks consist of winding parkways (often lacking sidewalks) that feed into arterial roads and freeway ramps. They develop at or near freeway intersections and airports and they rarely include heavy industry. They are large geographically because they are built at automobile scale.
Edge Cities are impossible without the automobile. In Jacksonville, the Southside, specifically the JTB corridor, has developed into our first true Edge City. Because the Southside is our only emerging Edge City in the midst of a development boom, we have decided to expand our monthly construction updates to include this area of Jacksonville.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_city
July/August 2014 Construction Update
1. Corner Bakery Cafe
Corner Bakery Café, intends to open its second Jacksonville restaurant at 7111 Bonneval Road, near Butler Boulevard and Philips Highway.
For more information: https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=542740
2. Shoppes of Gate Parkway
An office building is being constructed at the Shoppes of Gate Parkway near the intersection of Gate Parkway and Point Meadows Drive.
3.Spyglass
Being constructed by Perimeter Realty on East Baymeadows Road, Spyglass will add 220 apartments to the Southside.
4. Vistakon Inc.
Contact lense manufacturer Vistakon Inc. is expanding its distribution center from its current 661,174 square-foot building to 765,401 square feet, an addition of 104,227 square feet. The expansion will add 100 jobs to the 1,800 the company currently employees.
For more information: https://www.visionmonday.com/latest-news/article/vistakon-218-million-expansion-will-increase-acuvue-contact-lens-production-and-add-100-jobs/
5. Renaissance Charter School
Red Apple at Southside LLC has completed a $4.57 million Duval Charter School at 8680 A.C. Skinner Parkway, near JTB and Southside Blvd. The K-6 school contains 68,250 square feet in two stories.
6. Campfield Commons
Campfield Commons is designed between Baymeadows Road East, R.G. Skinner Boulevard and R.G. Skinner Parkway. Gate Petroleum and McDonald's Restaurant are two tenants that have already been announced.
For more information: https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=541234
7. Cancer Specialists of North Florida
The $4.5 million, 12,081-square-foot Cancer Specialists of North Florida at 7015 A.C. Skinner Parkway is now complete.
8. Deerwood Lake Lofts
Construction continues on Deerwood Lake Lofts. The project will add 130 apartment units on an infill site adjacent to Deerwood Lake. Developed by Inland Diversified Real Estate Services, LLC. of Oak Brook, IL, the four story development will include a five-story parking garage.
9. Clarity Pointe Jacksonville
Construction is underway on BCDC BrightPointe Jacksonville LLC's Clarity Pointe memory care center. The 60-bed, 44,899-square-foot center is being developed on 3.43 acres off East Baymeadows Road.
For more information: https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=541234
10. BurgerFi/Vision Works
Rimrock Devlin is in the process of building a $950,000, 7,500 square foot retail building at the Markets at Town Center shopping center. The development's tenants will include Vision Works and BurgerFi. BurgerFi is a South Florida-based upscale, all-natural burger chain that serves burgers, hot dogs, frozen treats and craft beer and wine. Construction is expected to be completed by the end of the year.
For more information: https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2013/07/10/rimrock-development-to-open.html
11. Borland-Groover Clinic Administration Building
An expansion project is underway at the Borland-Groover Clinic in Southpoint. When complete, a 12,500-square-foot administrative building and seven parking spaces will be added adjacent to the clinic's existing facility near the intersection of J. Turner Butler Boulevard and Belfort Road.
12. Nordstrom - St. Johns Town Center Phase III
Construction continues on the third phase of St. Johns Town Center. Plans include a two-level 124,000 square foot Nordstrom and 36,000 square feet of retail shops.
13. Another Broken Egg
Another Broken Egg Cafe is nearing completion a new restaurant in Tapestry Park. The Miramar Beach-based breakfast-lunch chain should open in late August.
For more information: https://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=543281
14. 9762 Deer Lake Court
The redevelopment of the former TaleGators Restaurant at 9762 Deer Lake Court in Tinseltown is underway. The TBigham Properties 2 LLC expansion and renovation project will transform the former eatery into a daycare.
15. University of North Florida Osprey Clubhouse
The University of North Florida's Osprey Clubhouse is now complete. Construction is now underway on a parking garage in the parking lot adjacent to the clubhouse.
16.Markets at Town Center Expansion
A new retail building for Verizon is being constructed in the parking lot of Markets at Town Center, adjacent to Moxie.
Development update by Ennis Davis, AICP. Contact Ennis at edavis@moderncities.com