Hillwood Investment Properties submitted plans to the city for a 1-million-square-foot distribution center at AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center, although there is no identity for the company that will use it.
The warehouse-distribution facility is proposed on 86.05 acres at 13333 103rd St., which is Parcel C at the industrial park in West Jacksonville.
If parking is any indication of employment or use, plans show 1,159 parking spaces.
Prosser Inc. is the civil engineer and Terracon Consultants Inc. provided geotechnical engineering services, according to the application.
Senior Vice President Dan Tatsch at Dallas-based Hillwood declined to comment this morning.
Hillwood, the city’s master developer at Cecil Commerce Center, indicated in a first-quarter report to the city it was working with at least two prospects that would need up to 1 million square feet of space.
One was further along. Hillwood submitted a proposal to a broker for the prospect and hired a civil engineering consultant to lay out a facility that would start at 850,000 square feet and be expandable to 1 million square feet.
The plans just submitted are for a 1,016,080-square-foot industrial building comprising about 977,000 square feet of warehouse space and 40,000 square feet for offices.
Hillwood also recently filed plans for a speculative building of 407,435 square feet that can be expanded by almost 100,000 square feet. That is planned on Parcel D1 on 35.43 acres at New World Avenue and Waterworks Street.
The newest industrial facility would be larger than the footprint for Amazon.com’s new structure. The Seattle-based e-commerce retailer is building a fulfillment center of 855,000 square feet in North Jacksonville.
However, Amazon.com’s multilevel center at 12900 Pecan Park Road will be about 2.4 million square feet total.
Broadstone River House emerging on Southbank
Site work should start in the next two weeks for construction of the 263-unit luxury Broadstone River House on Jacksonville’s Downtown Southbank and vertical work should be evident by November.
“That’s the goal,” said Tim Graff, development manager for Alliance Residential Co.
Clearing is underway on the 3.4-acre site at 1655 Prudential Drive, between the Duval County School Board building and the Lexington Hotel & Conference Center Jacksonville Riverwalk.
Graff said soil and environmental remediation is taking place on the property, which long ago was a shipyard.
“We found all kinds of interesting things in there,” he said, describing it as debris.
The old parking lot and other remnants are the most evident of materials being removed. The location more recently featured Crawdaddy’s Restaurant, which was demolished in 2004.
The contractor is Alliance Residential Builders South Florida LLC.
Broadstone River House is designed as a $34 million project of two apartment buildings — a six-story structure facing the St. Johns River and a five-story one fronting Prudential Drive — with a multilevel parking deck of about 475 spaces in between.
Vertical construction should start with the parking garage.
Broadstone River House should open in late summer 2017 with the first 30 units, the clubhouse, pool and amenity space, the parking deck and the public plaza and access to the Jacksonville Southbank Riverwalk.
The project should be finished by early summer 2018.
Graff did not have finalized rental rates for the luxury units, comprising 21 studio, 138 one-bedroom, 94 two-bedroom and 10 three-bedroom apartments.
“We are glad to get this one off the ground. We do think it is a special site,” he said.
Alliance Realty Partners LLC bought the property in July for $6.5 million.
In April, Phoenix-based Alliance sold the 228-unit Broadstone Beach House apartments in Jacksonville Beach it developed in 2009 to Bluerock Real Estate Holdings of New York for $46.5 million.
Alliance is looking for more area development sites, whether vacant land or property that would be demolished and redeveloped. Graff said a few sites are of interest, but there are none under contract.
SS&C Technologies build-out at $1 million
A $1 million demolition and build-out is pending for the SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc. relocation into Gramercy Woods, the former Bank of America office park.
Brasfield & Gorrie General Contractors is shown as the contractor for the project on the fourth and fifth floors of the five-story Building 700 at 9000 Southside Blvd.
The build-out encompasses 48,100 square feet of office space, according to the permit application. Rolland, DelValle & Bradley Inc. is the architect.
SS&C Technologies said in June the offices will relocate from the Deerwood South office park by April when the lease expires.
The move will almost double the company’s space and also allow it to add nearly 100 employees over the next two years to its staff of 275, the company said.
SS&C Technologies, based in Windsor, Conn., is a global provider of investment and financial software-enabled services and software for the financial services industry.
It traces its Jacksonville presence to the 2004 startup of Black Diamond Performance Reporting LLC. Advent Software Inc. bought Black Diamond in 2011 and SS&C bought Advent in July 2015.
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