Southside Construction Update - February 2014
A brief look at the status of various projects under construction in and around Jacksonville's Edge City, the Southside, during the month of February.
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
January 2014 Construction Update
1. The Hacienda
Perimeter Realty's The Hacienda, on Baymeadows Road East will bring 300 multifamily units to the area. Perimeter recently completed the 252-unit Cabana Club multifamily development on a site across the street.
2.Spyglass
With the construction of The Hacienda nearing completion, Perimeter Realty has moved forward with the land clearing for another multi-family development across the street. Called Spyglass, this project will bring an additional 220 apartments to the area.
3. 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/
4. Lost Lake Apartments
Construction is nearing completion on Winter Park-based P.A.C. Land Development Corporation's Lost Lake Apartments. The $14.5 million, three story apartment complex at 8681 A.C. Skinner Parkway will include 280 garden-style units when complete.
5. Terk Oncology Southpoint Cancer Center
A $3.4 million, 13,000-square foot medical office building with a radiation treatment facility is under construction at 7017 A.C. Skinner Parkway.
6. Cancer Specialists of North Florida
Cancer Specialists of North Florida, has started construction on a $4.5 million, 12,081 square foot building at 7015 A.C. Skinner Parkway.
7. 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.
8. Bento Café Tinseltown
Bento Café Tinseltown will be opening soon at 9734 Deer Lake Court. The 4,134 square foot enclosed restaurant will also include a 1,632 square foot outdoor seating area. The $603,410 tenant build-out is being done by GDP Design & Construction Inc.
9. Tapestry Park
According to the Jacksonville Business Journal, three leases have been signed recently for the retail strip along Deer Lake Drive West, near the Aloft Hotel.
— Planet Beach, a spa concept: 1,779 square feet
— Axiom Staffing: 1,457 square feet
— Pure Barre, a barre-concept fitness studio: 1,704 square feet
For more information: https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2013/12/13/tapestry-park-space-vacant-since.html
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. Raikes Plaza
12. Zoës Kitchen
Zoës Kitchen will open soon at 4624 Town Crossing Drive at St. Johns Town Center.
13. 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.
14. Gate Petroleum - Baymeadows Road East
Wiley James, LLC. is in the process of constructing an access roadway on the southside of Baymeadows Road East between R.G. Skinner parkway and Annie Eliza Road. Gate Petroleum, a gas station, convenience store, and car wash, is the first project being built on this property.
15. Gate Petroleum - Town Center Parkway
Gate Petroleum is nearing completion on a new gas station at the intersection of Town Center Parkway and St. Johns Bluff Road near Interstate 295 East Beltway. The project will include a Yobe Frozen Yogurt outlet.
16. University of North Florida Osprey Clubhouse
Construction continues on University of North Florida's Osprey Clubhouse. When complete, it will contain a 24-hour restaurant, pool, game room, mail and laundry facilities.
17.Mayo Clinic Expansion
Two additional floors and 90 beds are being added to the Jacksonville campus of Mayo Clinic to meet growing demand. Now nearing completion, the $80 million expansion will result in 400 new jobs at Mayo Clinic.
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
January 2014 Construction Update
1. The Hacienda
Perimeter Realty's The Hacienda, on Baymeadows Road East will bring 300 multifamily units to the area. Perimeter recently completed the 252-unit Cabana Club multifamily development on a site across the street.
2.Spyglass
With the construction of The Hacienda nearing completion, Perimeter Realty has moved forward with the land clearing for another multi-family development across the street. Called Spyglass, this project will bring an additional 220 apartments to the area.
3. 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/
4. Lost Lake Apartments
Construction is nearing completion on Winter Park-based P.A.C. Land Development Corporation's Lost Lake Apartments. The $14.5 million, three story apartment complex at 8681 A.C. Skinner Parkway will include 280 garden-style units when complete.
5. Terk Oncology Southpoint Cancer Center
A $3.4 million, 13,000-square foot medical office building with a radiation treatment facility is under construction at 7017 A.C. Skinner Parkway.
6. Cancer Specialists of North Florida
Cancer Specialists of North Florida, has started construction on a $4.5 million, 12,081 square foot building at 7015 A.C. Skinner Parkway.
7. 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.
8. Bento Café Tinseltown
Bento Café Tinseltown will be opening soon at 9734 Deer Lake Court. The 4,134 square foot enclosed restaurant will also include a 1,632 square foot outdoor seating area. The $603,410 tenant build-out is being done by GDP Design & Construction Inc.
9. Tapestry Park
According to the Jacksonville Business Journal, three leases have been signed recently for the retail strip along Deer Lake Drive West, near the Aloft Hotel.
— Planet Beach, a spa concept: 1,779 square feet
— Axiom Staffing: 1,457 square feet
— Pure Barre, a barre-concept fitness studio: 1,704 square feet
For more information: https://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2013/12/13/tapestry-park-space-vacant-since.html
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. Raikes Plaza
12. Zoës Kitchen
Zoës Kitchen will open soon at 4624 Town Crossing Drive at St. Johns Town Center.
13. 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.
14. Gate Petroleum - Baymeadows Road East
Wiley James, LLC. is in the process of constructing an access roadway on the southside of Baymeadows Road East between R.G. Skinner parkway and Annie Eliza Road. Gate Petroleum, a gas station, convenience store, and car wash, is the first project being built on this property.
15. Gate Petroleum - Town Center Parkway
Gate Petroleum is nearing completion on a new gas station at the intersection of Town Center Parkway and St. Johns Bluff Road near Interstate 295 East Beltway. The project will include a Yobe Frozen Yogurt outlet.
16. University of North Florida Osprey Clubhouse
Construction continues on University of North Florida's Osprey Clubhouse. When complete, it will contain a 24-hour restaurant, pool, game room, mail and laundry facilities.
17.Mayo Clinic Expansion
Two additional floors and 90 beds are being added to the Jacksonville campus of Mayo Clinic to meet growing demand. Now nearing completion, the $80 million expansion will result in 400 new jobs at Mayo Clinic.
Development update by Ennis Davis, AICP. Contact Ennis at edavis@moderncities.com