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Lowe’s posts distribution center jobs in Jacksonville
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Lowe’s Companies Inc. appears to be working toward opening a distribution warehouse in Freebird Commerce Center in North Jacksonville. The North Carolina-based homeimprovement supplies company posted job openings May 30 for a cross-dock operation, including descriptions for coach, market delivery manager and market delivery assistant manager, at 13225 Vantage Way. Listings show that the facility will comprise delivery operations for customers in a specific market for products bought from Lowe’s retail stores and
The online home furnishings retailer will lease a building in AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center.
mingham, Alabama, to build-out almost 104,000 square feet of space in Freebird Commerce Center for Lowe’s Companies Inc. Freebird Commerce Center comprises two buildings. Plans show that Lowe’s would lease space at 13225 Vantage Way in Building One. The build-out cost is shown as $938,750 for the 103,694-square-foot project, which includes 2,857 square feet of office space. Five South Architecture LLC of Birmingham is the architect. The job listing specifies Building 200 but the plans show that Lowe’s would lease part of an estimated 153,000-square-foot building, which would be Building One. The site is at southwest Duval and Airport roads, west of Interstate 95, in Jacksonville Tradeport, not far from Jacksonville International Airport. Scannell Properties of Indianapolis SEE LOWE’S, PAGE 2
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Lowe’s online at lowes.com. They say the center will need positions “that support successful home delivery operations.” Other parts of the job descriptions include performance monitoring, inbound call monitoring, customer service and more. Lowe’s has not responded to several emails or phone calls seeking comment, which indicates it might not have yet signed a lease but is preparing for the project for when it does. No job count is shown, but the listings disclose there will be a workforce team. The coach position is responsible for leading and supervising the local market administrative service associates. The market delivery manager and assistant manager coordinate between the cross-dock terminal, third-party delivery, bulk distribution centers, Lowe’s stores and field delivery directors. The city is reviewing a permit for Jim Cooper Construction Co. Inc. of Bir-
Wayfair to open facility this summer
Wayfair Inc. intends to open its AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center fulfillment facility this summer. Hillwood, the city’s master developer at Cecil Commerce Center in West Jacksonville, reported May 29 that the Wayfair Inc. distribution center was “substantially complete” in mid-December, as scheduled. The Boston-based online home furnishings company reported in February it pushed back the opening of its Jacksonville fulfillment center but did not say until when. Corporate Communications Associate Director Susan Frechette said by email June 1 the company expects to open the center this summer. In January, Frechette said the company expected to open the center in the next couple of months. She said by email Feb. 14 the move was delayed and 42 jobs were terminated and 47 employees were sent to other Wayfair facilities, but that Wayfair
The city is reviewing plans for tenant build-out for Lowe’s Companies Inc. in almost 104,000 square feet of space in the 156,000-square-foot Building One of Freebird Commerce Center.
The home-improvement company is shown as a 104,000-square-foot tenant in Freebird Commerce Center.
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Ulta to open fulfillment center Ulta Beauty Inc. will open its Jacksonville fast-fulfillment center this year as originally intended rather than postpone the opening until 2021, a delay it announced in December. “We’re accelerating investments to expand our shipping capacity this year, which includes the pull-forward of our Jacksonville fast-fulfillment center into 2020,” Ulta Beauty CEO Mary Dillon told analysts May 28 in the company’s first-quarter earnings conference call. “We’d like to have the facility open and operational by peak holiday time,” Ulta Public Relations Vice President Eileen Ziesemer said by email.
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