Miami investor Ramon Llorens appears to be interested in 84 vacant industrial waterfront acres in Dames Point that border the almost 63 adjacent acres he already owns through Amkin Dames Point LLC.
An application to the city for a conditional capacity availability statement shows the applicant, Nichols Creek Development LLC, has the same address as Amkin’s local agent.
The application fee was paid by Amkin Dames Point.
Property records show Nichols Creek Development Corp. of Vidalia, Ga., owns the property at 9595 New Berlin Court at southeast Heckscher Drive and Interstate 295.
Nichols Creek Development agent Michael Saylor said he expects a change of ownership any day but declined to identify the buyer.
He referred other questions to Amkin, whose representative declined to comment.
The Nichols Creek site sits north of Amkin’s property, which was assembled from four transactions in 2015 along New Berlin Road.
The application certified by the city Aug. 23 indicates improvements with horizontal development and a new building.
The capacity statement states the enclosed area of development is 323,000 square feet.
Saylor said an old development agreement was being converted to the CCAS.
A CCAS is a concurrency filing. Concurrency requires that before any proposed development can obtain a final development order in Jacksonville, it must be demonstrated that its impact to public infrastructure can be adequately absorbed.
A 2009 city development agreement on the property detailed 323,000 square feet of warehouse space, 460,000 square feet of industrial-park space and 54 acres for port and marine terminal use.
It stated the development involved multiple phases and would occur over an extended period of time.
The listed real estate parcel is 187.5 acres but the capacity statement and original development agreement said the net acreage is 84 acres. The 84 acres are uplands.
Amkin’s property is adjacent to the JaxPort Dames Point Marine Terminal, which raises questions about the future use of the site.
The Dames Point terminal is 10 nautical miles from the Atlantic Ocean and is JaxPort’s newest marine facility.
It includes the TraPac Container Terminal, which serves ships from Tokyo-based MOL and other carriers. The terminal also handles other cargo, such as bulk aggregate materials.
Dames Point features the Intermodal Container Transfer Facility and is the home port of Carnival Cruise Lines’ Fascination passenger ship.
Llorens has been an active Jacksonville investor.
Since September 2014, through ownership groups, he has acquired EverBank Center Downtown; property in the Talleyrand area that includes the former Ford Motor Co. plant; the New Berlin Road property; Southbank riverfront commercial buildings; and a Downtown parking garage at 336 W. Bay St.
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