MedExpress Urgent Care, with its first Northeast Florida site under development along Merrill Road in Arlington, is planning on a second.
Site plans show MedExpress intends to open in the Atlantic North shopping center in East Arlington at northwest Kernan Road and Atlantic boulevards.
Atlantic North, under development by Sleiman Enterprises, is anchored by LA Fitness, Belk, Academy Sports + Outdoors and Earth Fare.
MedExpress is planned as a 4,876-square-foot medical office on a 1.5-acre outparcel near 7-Eleven at 11901 Atlantic Blvd.
MedExpress will join two more outparcels that Sleiman Enterprises wants to develop with shops for multiple tenants.
Developer Toney Sleiman said Monday he also continues to work on a theater and three more national big-box tenants.
Two of those tenants would be built between Belk and Earth Fare. The third along some shop space that would connect Academy and LA Fitness. He declined to identify them, but said one was new to the market.
Sleiman said a year ago that he envisions a 12-screen, 45,000-square-foot theater on a site west of the Belk store. He would not identify the national theater company.
“That is coming along,” he said Monday, adding that he might have more information in the next month.
Sleiman explained previously that Atlantic North is between the two closest theaters at a distance agreeable in the industry. It would be about 5 miles east of AMC Regency 24 at Regency Square Mall and a little more than 5 miles northwest of Regal Beach Boulevard Stadium 18.
Sleiman expects development for MedExpress to start in 60 days.
The first MedExpress is under development at the site of the former Arthur Murray Dance Studio at 7720 Merrill Road.
That building was demolished and the site is being cleared to make way for the first area MedExpress Urgent Care center.
A pending permit shows MedExpress on 1.73 acres. Creighton Commercial Development & Construction is the contractor for the $750,000 demolition project and construction of the 4,537-square-foot building at a cost of $1.14 million.
Plans include seven exam rooms, an X-ray room and labs.
Spokeswoman Annie Jamieson said previously no opening date has been set for the first location.
She said MedExpress will hire about 20 health care professionals, including customer service representatives, for that site.
Jamieson said MedExpress operates about 20 centers in Florida and has another 11 planned. It operates 201 centers in 16 states.
At Atlantic North, MedExpress and buildings on the two outparcels will signal more development at the site.
The city is reviewing Sleiman Enterprises’ applications for two 7,521-square-foot buildings that comprise almost 6,000 square feet each for retail space and about 1,500 square feet for storage. Sleiman said the multitenant buildings will be leased to small tenants.
Those two buildings will be at 11957 Atlantic Blvd. TCI Construction Co., a Sleiman company, is the contractor for the two $420,000 buildings.
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