Jacksonville Daily Record 9/13/21

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MONDAY September 13, 2021

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THE FORD ON BAY

THE MATHIS REPORT

DIA committee supports rebidding Daily Record old Duval County Courthouse site JACKSONVILLE

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The plans would exclude the former City Hall Annex property and will not require retail uses along Bay Street.

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KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR

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FlexCold building $47M cold-storage storage center

BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER

A Downtown Investment Authority committee recommends the full board remarket and rebid the former Duval County Courthouse site on Bay Street. The committee’s 3-0 vote Sept. 9 comes after the full board ended negotiations with a New York City-based developer in August for a mixed-use multifamily retail project at 330 E. Bay St. The 2.89-acre property was part of what the DIA branded in 2019 as The Ford on Bay. It included the adjacent 2.39-acre former City Hall Annex site at 220 E. Bay St. and 3.1 acres of submerged land in the St. Johns River. The DIA’s latest effort to put the site on the market keeps the focus on mid-rise or high-rise mixed-use multifamily development. It removes the annex site and submerged land from a draft request for proposals. Committee Chair Oliver Barakat called the city-owned site a “very important block” Downtown. “This is our opportunity to really write the script on a development more so than we have on a privately owned property,” he said. If the board approves the plan Sept. 15, real estate firm CBRE would begin premarketing the riverfront parcel until Oct. 21. The board then would issue a SEE DIA, PAGE 2

THE FORD ON BAY SITE

BID TIMELINE

The Ford on Bay is city-owned riverfront property along the Bay Street Innovation Corridor. The Downtown Investment Authority may seek developer bids for Area 2 of the property, the former Duval County Courthouse.

DIA 330 E. Bay St. property marketing timeline: Sept. 15-Oct. 21: CBRE premarketing period Oct. 22: DIA board issues official notice of disposition Nov 1: Preproposal conference with interested buyers/developers Nov. 5: Developers’ written questions due to city Nov. 12: City written answers due to developers Nov. 23: Bid due Nov. 23-Dec. 3: Oral presentations by shortlisted respondents Dec. 7: Evaluation committee recommendations due to DIA committee Dec. 15: DIA board meeting for proposal selection

Photo by Mike Mendenhall

Downtown Investment Authority committee members Oliver Barakat and Carol Worsham meet Sept. 9 about The Ford on Bay site.

Dec. 16: Award announced

The city issued a permit for the almost 150,000-square-foot warehouse in North Jacksonville. With a permit issued Sept. 7, FlexCold LLC is building its $47 million storage center in North Jacksonville. FlexCold.com says it will open in summer 2022. The company provides storage systems for industries that include warehousing; manufacturing; food and beverage; distribution; health care; technology; archiving; oversize loads; and cold storage. Arco Design/Build LLC is the contractor for the 149,002-square-foot project on 12 acres at 11180 Blasius Road. The permit shows a construction cost of $19.89 million. The project has been in motion since February. Flexspace Ventures in Charleston, South Carolina, registered FlexCold LLC and 11180 Blasius Road LLC with the state Feb. 24. England-Thims & Miller Inc. filed civil engineering plans with the city Feb. 26. FlexCold said it intended to SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2

ChenMed renovating closed Arlington Walgreens ChenMed Dedicated Senior Medical Centers is renovating the former Walgreens store in Arlington now that the city issued a construction permit Sept. 2 for the $1.05 million project. CBJ Construction Inc. of Dania Beach is the contractor for the almost 15,000-square-foot project at 1220 University Blvd. N. It already is performing interior demolition under a permit issued July 20 at a cost of $31,500. ChenMed is a primary care-led group practice that serves low- to moderate-income patients with an average age of 72 through the Medicare Advantage program. ChenMed expects to open the office late this year.

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