Daily Record FINANCIAL NEWS &
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 233 • Two SecTioNS
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Movement on 2 large Tradeport warehouses
The North Florida Land Trust owns Pescatello Island, a 30-acre forested island within the Timucuan Preserve that can only be accessed by boat and with permission. It is home to several species of birds and surrounded by salt marshes.
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By Karen Brune Mathis Managing Editor
Preserving the past for future
McCarthy on different side of real estate business
For many years, Jim McCarthy developed land for a living. In the 1990s, he founded The Associated Builders and Contractors organization in Jacksonville and served as executive director. He later worked for The Haskell Co., serving as vice president of business development, implementing development and design-build. Now, McCarthy’s career involves preserving land, rather than developing it. As executive director of North Florida Land Trust — a nonprofit dedicated to preserving important ecological, agricultural and historic lands of North Florida — he collaborates with landowners, public agency partners and other foundations to ensure the area’s natural resources are protected. WORKSPACE CONTINUED ON PAGE A-7
Former developer Jim McCarthy is executive director of the land trust.
Photo by Maggie FitzRoy
By Maggie FitzRoy, Contributing Writer
Dallas-based land owner Jackson-Shaw appears to be moving on two large warehouses on land it owns at Jacksonville International Tradeport. The company submitted plans to the city for commercial warehouses of 114,700 square feet at 13525 International Parkway and 54,000 square feet along Tradeport Circle East. Plans show the projects west of International Parkway, north and south of Tradeport Circle. No tenants or uses are included, raising the question whether the projects could be speculative construction. Jackson-Shaw and Rick Haskew Jr., listed as the developer, did not return telephone calls or email. The civil engineer is Consolidated Design Professionals LLC. Through JSTP Lot 3 LLC and JSTP Lot 4 LLC, Jackson-Shaw bought the vacant 13.5-acre and 3.5-acre tracts in August 2015. Plans previously were filed in July. The 425-acre Tradeport is at southwest Interstate 95 and Airport Road, near Jacksonville International Airport. Jackson-Shaw says on its website it originally bought 995,000 square feet of industrial space and 85 acres at the North Jacksonville Tradeport. It completed the 25-acre Creekside Distribution Center, totaling more than 334,000 square feet, and the 127,000-square-foot build-to-suit structure for Ecolab. Jackson-Shaw says it has four tracts for build-to-suit opportunities. The land is zoned light industrial, office and commercial. In addition to the two tracts for which plans were filed, it also owns 15.6-acre and 7.7-acre parcels — one opposite Tract 3 and another further south in the Tradeport. The company’s Florida Regional Offices in Jacksonville referred questions to Jackson-Shaw President and COO Michelle Wheeler, who did not return a call or email. The company also has regional offices in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1972, Jackson-Shaw has completed more than 50 million square feet of commercial real estate developments, including mixed-us projects, warehouses, office buildings and hotels. kmathis@jaxdailyrecord.com @MathisKb (904) 356-2466
Clock is ticking for Regional Transportation Center Conceptual design could be approved Oct. 20; groundbreaking targeted for January
By Max Marbut Staff Writer If the Jacksonville Transportation Authority is going to break ground in January for the Regional Transportation Center Downtown near the Prime Osborn Convention Center, the basic design for the project needs to be approved ASAP. That’s why a workshop for the first phase, an inner city bus terminal along Forsyth Street near Interstate 95, was conducted Tues-
day by the Downtown Development Review Board. The conceptual design of the site of the new Greyhound Bus Lines Inc. station could be approved by the board as soon as Oct. 20. Final approval then could be granted in late November, giving JTA, the developer of the transportation center, about two months to secure permits and begin the project. David Tudryn, vice president and senior architect for Michael
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Baker International, said the design of the station will be Greyhound’s latest prototype and similar to new stations in Baltimore, Nashville and Sacramento, Calif. His Pittsburgh-based firm and Pond & Company, a local architectural firm, were selected by JTA to design the center. JTA CEO Nathaniel Ford said in April if all goes according to schedule, the $33 million transportation center that includes a new Downtown terminal for the authority’s fixed bus routes, a hub
for the First Coast Flyer rapid transit bus system and administrative offices could be complete in 2019. Discussion at the workshop focused on traffic circulation around the bus station site. Board member Carol Worsham said she’s familiar with the area because she drives through it each day. She described it as a “dangerous intersection” because Forsyth Street is the exit ramp off Interstate 95. That traffic, plus other vehicles,
pedestrians, Greyhound buses using the station and the eventual use of the site as JTA’s main transit hub, could create conflicts, she said. Allan Iosue, director of development for Pond & Company, said the project could require redesigning Forsyth Street and other changes may be in store as well. “We want wider sidewalks and more pedestrian activity,” he said. Another issue will be screening CENTER CONTINUED ON PAGE A-4
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