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DEVELOPMENT
Villages at Town Center planned for St. Johns
New JEA HQ design gets closer look Daily Record JACKSONVILLE
The master-planned community on 2,173 acres is seeking 3,500 residential units.
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BY SCOTT SAILER STAFF WRITER
The retail space will be on the ground floor of the adjacent nine-story, 850-space parking garage. The 35-foot-deep storefronts are planned for the one-block stretch of Julia Street as well as the corners of Adams and
Helow Properties Ltd. is preparing land it owns in Northwest St. Johns County for entitlements up to 3,500 residential units and 2.5 million square feet of nonresidential uses. It calls the property Villages at Town Center. The undeveloped 2,173 acres is what remains of Helow familyowned property in the area. Jacksonville-based Helow Properties wants to conserve about 500 acres of wetlands. After entitlement approvals, Helow Properties anticipates development to start within five years and take place in five- to 10-year phases. Villages at Town Center would be a master-planned community. Helow Properties, led by Joseph P. Helow, asked the county for a preapplication meeting to discuss a land use change. Helow seeks a potential largescale land use amendment for the acreage, which is north and south of Greenbriar Road, also known as County Road 210 West. The property’s use would change from rural silviculture to mixed use, residential uses and conservation. The property is zoned open rural. Helow plans eventually to request rezoning to a planned unit development. The property north of Greenbriar Road stretches between Veterans and Longleaf Pine parkways. The property south of Greenbriar Road is east and west of Longleaf Pine Parkway and
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THE VIEW FROM THE STREET
Renderings of the JEA headquarters design show the corner entrance (above) and the pocket parks planned for the office tower. The headquarters will sit on one city block, bounded by Adams, Monroe, Pearl and Julia streets adjacent to the Duval County Courthouse.
Downtown Development Review Board members offer suggestions for color palette, pocket park spaces and more at workshop. BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
The Downtown Development Review Board took a detailed look Thursday at the urban open space, pocket parks and ground-floor retail space planned for JEA’s proposed next headquarters. The workshop at City Hall was the first public discussion about the office tower since JEA Managing Director and CEO Aaron Zahn told reporters Tuesday of his decision to move forward with the $72.2 million project. The headquarters will sit on one city block, bounded by Adams, Monroe, Pearl and Julia streets adjacent to the Duval County Courthouse. JEA will lease the building from developer Ryan Companies US Inc. The DDRB approved the concep-
Renderings special to the Daily Record
tual design of the headquarters Sept. 19, but urged Ryan to provide detailed, street-level visuals of the project’s 4,900-square-foot urban open space and the retail component before the project’s final review. Ryan intends to have 8,500 square feet of retail space “ready on Day One.”
Gilbert’s Social closes on Southside Restaurateur and chef Kenny Gilbert announced Friday the closure of Gilbert’s Social on Southside Boulevard. “We have made the decision not to renew the lease on the building and focus our efforts on new projects as well as our other restaurant, Gilbert’s Underground Kitchen,” Gilbert said in a news release. Gift cards, promotions, large party reservations and turkey orders will be honored at Gilbert’s Underground Kitchen at 510 S. Eighth St. in Fernandina Beach, the release said. Gilbert’s Social, at 4021 Southside Blvd., No. 200, opened in 2016.
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