The city issued a permit Friday for United Parcel Service Inc.’s $25 million expansion of its Northwest Jacksonville distribution center and shipping hub.
Plans show the global logistics leader will add about 375,000 square feet of shipping area and three loading wings to enlarge the UPS center to more than 900,000 square feet.
The expansion is part of its $196 million plan to add space and technology to its ground-package hub at 4420 Imeson Road in Westside Industrial Park.
Kajima Building & Design Group Inc. is the contractor.
UPS announced in November it intended to complete the expansion in the fall of 2019, increasing the hub’s capacity by one-third to more than 80,000 packages processed per hour.
UPS also will add advanced technology and operations automation.
City Council adopted a resolution in October for a $4.3 million Recapture Enhanced Value grant to create 10 jobs that would pay an average salary exceeding $50,000 a year by the end of 2020.
The legislation shows the $196 million project comprises $46 million in land and real estate improvements and $150 million in equipment, furniture and fixtures.
As UPS expands the hub, it has leased and is renovating a 400,000-square-foot warehouse in Westlake Industrial Park to add capacity for the holiday rush.
Renovations to that building will be completed this fall in time for the volume surge.
Atlanta-based UPS said in November the Imeson Road facility will be retrofitted to include its latest sorting and processing technology.
It said small, lightweight packages typical of e-commerce will flow through new systems that maintain UPS reliability in loads built for destinations throughout Florida.
While Amazon.com was not referenced in the release, the internet retailer uses UPS as a shipper.
Amazon is building a fulfillment center in Cecil Commerce Center in West Jacksonville and has opened a center in in Northwest Jacksonville.
UPS is hiring 1,600 part-time employees for the holiday volume. Visit upsjobs.com.
Developer Hillwood and contractor Ace Electric Inc. of Valdosta, Georgia, applied to the city to install a $1.3 million conveyor system in the Amazon.com fulfillment center in Cecil Commerce Center.
That comes after permit requests in July for an almost $2.5 million installation of storage racks and the $2.5 million installation of two platforms in the building.
Notices of commencement were issued for those projects Aug. 25.
A permit request for a $233,000 installation of lightweight stock shelving also is in review.
The 1 million-square-foot center, at 13333 103rd St., is expected to open this month to process orders for large consumer items, such as sports equipment and furniture.
The city issued a permit Friday for Dav-Lin Interior Contractors to build-out about 24,000 square feet of space for SS&C Technologies Holdings Inc. in Gramercy Woods at 9000 Southside Blvd.
The permit application shows renovations on the third floor of Building 700. Dav-Lin Interior Contractors Inc. is the contractor for the project at a cost of $820,572.
Colliers International Northeast Florida announced recently that it completed a lease expansion for SS&C Technologies to add 24,653 square feet of office space to occupy the entire third floor.
That boosts SS&C Technologies’ lease to encompass the third, fourth and fifth floors, totaling 73,005 square feet of office space.
SS&C, based in Windsor, Connecticut, is a global provider of investment and financial software-enabled services and software for the global financial services industry.
In June 2016, SS&C Technologies said it would almost double its space in a move to Gramercy Woods, allowing it to add nearly 100 employees.
Jacksonville SS&C executive Dave Welling, head of Advent Advisory Business and general manager of Black Diamond, said then that SS&C Advent had 275 employees.
SS&C relocated from the Deerwood South office park, at 10151 Deerwood Park Blvd.