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The 252-room property is planned to open in early 2024 near Butler Boulevard.
Mayo Clinic announced Sept. 28 the addition of a $70 million, 252-room Hilton hotel at its Jacksonville campus. The project is expected to begin next summer with completion planned for early 2024, according to a news release. The hotel will be built at the new Butler Boulevard entrance to the Mayo campus that is planned for completion next year. The eight-story, 179,000-squarefoot hotel is expected to operate under Hilton’s flagship brand, Hilton Hotels &
Resorts. It would be the first to operate under that flag in Jacksonville. The hotel is a collaboration of Concord Hospitality, Whitman Peterson and Mayo. Concord is a hotel management, ownership and development company. Whitman Peterson is a real estate private equity company. The release said Dasburg Capital Partner LLC is an additional investor in the project. “Mayo Clinic in Florida provides critical care to hundreds of thousands of
The Dallas-based master developer also responded to a prospect needing 1 million square feet of industrial space.
patients every year, making this project all the more special and important to us,” Mark Laport, president and CEO of Concord Hospitality, said in the release. “We look forward to working alongside our longtime partner, Whitman Peterson, and Mayo Clinic to provide visitors to the area with a warm and welcoming place to stay during their visit.” According to the Concord Hospitality website, its portfolio includes the Hyatt Place Jacksonville St. Johns Town Center and the Residence Inn Jacksonville Mayo
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Hillwood evaluating retail development at AllianceFlorida
Hillwood is working with a prospect that wants to buy part of an almost 112-acre parcel for a retail facility at southwest Normandy Boulevard and POW-MIA Memorial Parkway in AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center. Dallas-based Hillwood, the city’s master developer for the West Jacksonville business park, also received and responded in the second quarter to a preliminary inquiry from a broker representing a prospect interested in leasing at least 1 million square feet of distribution space. Hillwood did not identify either the retail or the distribution prospect. Hillwood told the city in its second-quarter activity report Sept. 27 that it continued discussions in the April-June period with the retail prospect for a portion of Parcel Q. The retail center would be the first at the park. The discussions started in the fourth quarter of 2020, according to the report.
An artist’s rendering of the eight-story, 179,000-square-foot Hilton hotel planned at the Jacksonville Mayo Clinic campus at Butler Boulevard and San Pablo Road. It is expected to operate under Hilton’s flagship brand, Hilton Hotels & Resorts.
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KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
$10.6 million renovation permit sought for Igloo Ownership of the former Jacksonville Ice & Sportsplex applied to the city for a permit to make exterior and interior renovations at a cost of $10.6 million to what is now Community First Igloo. Bluewater Builders Inc. of Coral Springs is the contractor for the project at 3605 Philips Highway. The city issued a permit July 23 for $400,000 in initial demolition and interior structural work toward redeveloping the center for the Jacksonville Icemen, the city’s professional hockey team. The Igloo is part of San Marco East, at Interstate 95 and Emerson Street.
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