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Plans show five industrial parcels, two commercial parcels, the fire station site, roadways, utilities and sidewalks and three stormwater management facilities at northeast Interstate 95 and Florida A1A.
park in works for Wildlight
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Site plans filed for warehouse
St. Louis-based group intends to buy the property by early next year and start development.
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An almost 160-acre industrial and commerce park is in review for the Wildlight community at northeast Interstate 95 and Florida A1A in Nassau County. “Extensive market studies show there is a substantial need for new industrial space,” said developer Rodney Jones, citing a low industrial vacancy rate for Nassau County. Jones said the site is near the interstate highway system, area ports and Georgia as well as the Jacksonville metropolitan area. “We are also attracted to the Wildlight development itself,” he said of the 2,900-acre residential, commercial, office and industrial center in progress by Raydient Places + Properties LLC. “We think it’s going to be an anchor in northern metro Jacksonville that will do well,” he said of his group’s unnamed project. The NAI Hallmark quarterly real estate market report found that Nassau County’s industrial vacancy rate ended the first quarter at 0.2% while the Northeast Florida average was 2.7%, considered a tight market. Jones is a manager of STLJAX
VanTrust developing 1.1 million-square-foot building at Imeson Park. VanTrust Real Estate LLC filed civil site plans with the city for a more than 1.1 millionsquare-foot industrial building at Imeson Park, the 156-acre warehouse property it owns in North Jacksonville. VanTrust Executive Vice President John Carey said no tenant has been signed and the development timing has not been determined. Carey EnglandThims & Miller Inc. is the agent and civil engineer. The 1,106,580-square-foot warehouse is planned on 53 acres along Cold Storage Road at the Malnove Drive extension. The facility will provide parking for 222 vehicles and 550 trailers and will include a small portion within the building for the main office, plans indicate. The project, called Building E, is part of the 3 million square feet of development rights VanTrust has at the park. VanTrust, through JI Imeson Industrial LLC, already is building the 300,000-square-
BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
The site is at northeast Interstate 95 and Florida A1A in Nassau County about 25 miles from Downtown Jacksonville.
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SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
Emtec moving headquarters to Jacksonville Emtec Inc., an information technology consulting company is relocating its headquarters from Radnor, Pennsylvania, to its Jacksonville office Sept. 1. The company’s Southside office is at 9454 Philips Highway in the Interstate South Commerce Center. The company said it plans to double its Jacksonville workforce to 150 within two years. For the past five years, the company has partnered with Duval County Public Schools to host a summer internship program, rehabbing computers and projectors in schools across the county.
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