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Mixed-use project planned at former Daily Record Dolphin Depot in Jacksonville Beach JACKSONVILLE
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VanTrust buys 196 acres for Imeson Park South The developer plans to start the North Jacksonville project with a 1 million-square-foot speculative warehouse.
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Trevato Development Group plans a mixed-use development on this 1.36-ace property at 704 First St. N. in Jacksonville Beach between Sixth and Seventh avenues. The site previously was the Dolphin Depot restaurant. It is across the street from the Margaritaville Beach Hotel.
Trevato Development Group bought the 1.36-acre property Oct. 8. for $8.5 million. BY KATIE GARWOOD STAFF WRITER
Treva to Deve l o p m e n t G ro u p announced Oct. 8 it plans to transform the former Dolphin Depot restaurant site in Jacksonville Beach into a mixeduse development with 180 parking spaces. Trevato said Oct. 8 it purchased the property for $8.5 million. The 1.36-ace vacant site at 704 First St. N. is between Sixth and Seventh avenues. It is across from the Margaritaville
Beach Hotel. A news release said the property will be “pedestrian friendly.” The seller, Dolphin Depot LLC, managed by Joseph Eckstein, purchased the property in 2014 for $1.89 million. The project will be Trevato’s fifth in the area. It is developing a mixed-use project at the Adventure Landing site in Jacksonville Beach, an apartment project in San Pablo and a mixed-use project in San Marco. It is developing another project at 502
First St. N. near the Dolphin Depot property that will include a restaurant with rooftop seating, operated by a new-tothe-market restaurant group. “Trevato is dedicated to investing in its community,” Steve Diebenow, attorney for Trevato Development Group, said in the release. “This project, like all of their initiatives, is driven by a passion for placemaking in dynamic neighborhoods.” KGARWOOD@JAXDAILYRECORD.COM (904) 356-2466
VanTrust Real Estate paid almost $22.83 million for 196 acres in North Jacksonville to develop about 2.83 million square feet of warehouse space, including a speculative 1 millionsquare-foot facility. Marc Munago, VanTrust executive vice president, said Oct. 8 the project will be Munago called Imeson Park South. It is at 1400 Zoo Parkway, also called Heckscher Drive. The property is south of VanTrust’s Imeson Park, a fourbuilding industrial center that is being completed with its last building. Munago said VanTrust bought 136 acres from the Charles W. Bostwick Trust and 60 acres from CEFL Inc., an entity of the Webb group, a large Imeson International Industrial Park developer and landowner. SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
NW Jacksonville Home Depot delivery center OK’d The city issued a permit Oct. 7 for FCL Builders LLC to build-out a delivery center for The Home Depot in Northwest Jacksonville at a cost of $1.67 million. The Home Depot MDO Facility, for market delivery operations, is at 4345 Perimeter Industrial Parkway in Perimeter West Industrial Park at northeast Interstate 295 and Pritchard Road. The center will occupy 66,990 square feet of a 155,820-square-foot building. A spokesperson for Atlanta-based Home Depot said previously the center “is part of our strategic investment in our supply chain network to offer same day/next day delivery to 90% of the United States.” Atlanta-based Rooker developed the warehouse in 2019. The Home Depot will occupy Suite 100.
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