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Area’s 11th Amazon center ID’d
LAURA STREET TRIO PLANS Record & Observer MAY TAKE AN UPSCALE TURN
A delivery station — one of five in the area so far — is planned in Northwest Jacksonville.
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Record & Observer BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
An 11th Northeast Florida Amazon.com Inc. facility is planned, this one a delivery station in Northwest Jacksonville. The city is reviewing plans for a $16 million, 155,819-square-foot delivery station, code-named DJX5, in the Perimeter West Industrial Park. The new building is at 4345 Perimeter Industrial Parkway N. Amazon would lease it. The DJX designation is Amazon’s code for a Jacksonville delivery station. Plans say the station is designed for a package delivery service with two shifts – one day, one evening – and a potential third shift during peak seasons. No contractor is listed. Baker Barrios of Orlando is the architect. TLC Engineering Solutions of Orlando is the civil engineer. The plans specify how the station will operate. Packages arrive in cardboard boxes labeled for shipping within local neighborhoods and areas surrounding the facility. They are brought into the facility by tractor-trailers and unloaded. The packages are sorted into more specific locations, put into mobile carts and rolled to the loading area. There, they are loaded into vans for delivery. Atlanta-based Rooker completed the speculative building early this year. Rooker Vice President Cason Bufe said Aug. 10 he had no tenants to announce but had “good leasing activity on it.”
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Record & Observer The Laura Street Trio at 51 W. Forsyth St. Downtown comprises the Florida Life Building (left), the Bisbee Building and the Marble Bank Building (front).
Developer Steve Atkins plans to start work in 2021 on the Downtown project that could become part of the Marriott Autograph brand. BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
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outhEast Development Group LLC Managing Director Steve Atkins said Dec. 14 Marriott is reviewing the proposed Laura Street Trio adaptive reuse project Downtown as a candidate for its Autograph Collection of hotels. The possibility of raising the Trio hotel’s profile from the previously announced Courtyard by Marriott to Autograph comes as Atkins and the Downtown Investment Authority work toward a new city-backed development deal to renovate the three historic vacant structures at 51 W. Forsyth St. Atkins said he intends to submit final documents to the DIA before its January board meeting. The Trio is designed as a hotel, office, commercial and SEE TRIO, PAGE 6
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SouthEast Development Group LLC Managing Director Steve Atkins intends to transform the Laura Street Trio into a mixed-use development with a hotel and grocery.
What’s Trending: Home listings are in short supply PAGE 2 The top sales of the week in commercial real estate PAGE 5 The Top 10 home sales of the week PAGE 8
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THE MATHIS REPORT
Grocery store is proposed for the eTown community Footprint matches the size of a Publix. PAGE 4 VOLUME 3, NO. 29 • ONE SECTION