From the Daily Record
Permit applications were filed last month for the Publix Super Market in San Marco.
Applications for seven permits were sought for the $41 million East San Marco multistory residential and retail construction project planned at Hendricks Avenue and Atlantic Boulevard.
Those plans include a rendering of the Publix store from the corner of Atlantic Boulevard and Mango Place.
East San Marco’s address is 1532 Atlantic Blvd.
Publix will anchor the retail component of the project, which will include more shops as well as a separate garage for customers.
The development will feature 239 apartments and a separate parking deck to serve tenants. The plans filed this month said there will be 42 studio, 117 one-bedroom, 76 two-bedroom and four three-bedroom units.
The seven permits comprise:
• Publix, 33,481 square feet.
• Retail space, 13,524 square feet. The interior space will be submitted for permits when tenants have been identified.
• A ground-level parking garage for customers of Publix and the retailers.
• Three permits for a five-story and two four-story residential buildings.
• A six-level parking deck for the residential tenants.
Completion is slated for late 2018.
Humana leaving Downtown tower
Humana is leaving its Downtown SunTrust Tower offices in August for two Southside locations. More than 120 employees will make the move.
The health insurer leases about 35,000 square feet in the 23-story tower at 76 S. Laura St. on the Northbank.
Its North Florida regional executive and market offices will move at the beginning of August to the Prominence office park in Baymeadows, said spokesman Mitch Lubitz.
He said more than 80 employees in leadership, administrative and network positions will move to Prominence, where Humana will lease about 13,500 square feet of space.
By mid-August, the company will move about 40 Humana and CarePlus Health Plans sales agents and customer service staff to the new Humana MarketPoint in Mandarin.
The 5,500-square-foot sales and service retail center will open in the Merchants Walk shopping center at 9965 San Jose Blvd. A formal grand opening is expected in September.
That move is part of Humana’s strategy to put its sales and service workforce in retail settings closer to members.
Lubitz said many of Humana’s Northeast Florida associates telecommute from home, so the company doesn’t need as much office space.
Alliance buys property
Alliance Realty Partners LLC bought the Southbank riverfront property this week where it wants to develop the 263-unit Broadstone River House.
Alliance purchased the Prudential Drive site for $6.5 million from Riverwalk Jacksonville Development LLC of Miami, according to Colliers International Northeast Florida.
Colliers International Northeast Florida CEO Robert Selton and Executive Vice President Chuck Diebel represented the seller.
In April, Alliance Residential Co. of Phoenix applied for building permits that show a $26.6 million construction cost for the two multistory structures at 1655 Prudential Drive. Completion will take about two years.
Diebel said Alliance bought just over 3 acres.
The project is designed as two buildings and a parking deck between Prudential Drive and the south bank of the St. Johns River, east of the Lexington Hotel & Conference Center Jacksonville Riverwalk.
Alliance Residential said in March the $34 million apartment community would be completed in two years and offer another residential option in an area targeted for big plans.
Alliance Residential Development Manager Tim Graff said in March that rents will range from about $1,100 to $2,200 a month for the 21 studio, 138 one-bedroom, 94 two-bedroom and 10 three-bedroom apartments.
Neighborhood Market is $5M build-out
A permit application shows the proposed Walmart Neighborhood Market in Baymeadows would be built at a construction cost of $5 million.
No contractor is listed for the project at Baymeadows Commons. The market is planned at 9550 Baymeadows Road, No. 18.
The market would comprise 40,545 square feet of enclosed space and 1,406 square feet of unenclosed space, according to the application filed this week.
Previous plans filed with the city show the discount grocery store, which is the supermarket-size arm of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., would occupy about 42,000 square feet at the site of the former Bailey’s Powerhouse Gym. The gym relocated nearby.
It would be the seventh Neighborhood Market in the Jacksonville area. The markets are just a quarter of the size of a Supercenter.
Strand, Crossing centers attracting new stores
The Strand at Town Center and The Crossing at Town Center appear to be bringing several more retail newcomers to Jacksonville.
PGA Tour Superstore, 2nd & Charles, Chuy’s restaurant and Goo-Goo 3 Minute Express Wash join previously reported Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, Firebirds Wood Fired Grill and Wawa as newcomers to town, according to a site plan.
Matt Corey, chief marketing officer for PGA Tour Superstore, said in an email the company continuously explores new locations and Jacksonville “represents a hotbed market for golfers.”
Second & Charles is a division of Books-A-Million, whose real estate subsidiary is developing The Strand and The Crossing. The store buys and resells items such as used books, CDs in original cases, video games, comics, iPads and iPods and vinyl records.
The nearest 2nd & Charles to Jacksonville is in Gainesville, while the closest PGA Tour Superstore is in Orlando.
Chuy’s, a restaurant company that offers Mexican food, is based in Austin, Texas. Its closest location is in Gainesville.
Goo-Goo Express Wash Inc., based in Columbus, Ga., has no locations in Florida.