The Mathis Report: Buc-ee’s submits more plans for 104-pump station; Fire station for Cecil

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◾L’Occitane en Provence will renovate its St. Johns Town Center store at 4663 River City Drive, No. 107. No contractor is listed for the $100,000 project.

◾Johnson & Johnson Vision seeks a permit to install manufacturing equipment at its 7500 Centurion Parkway contact lens plant. Turner Construction Co. is the contractor for the $250,000 project.

◾ McDonald’s wants to rebuild its Mandarin restaurant at 11682 San Jose Blvd., at Loretto Road. In plans filed with the city and in a letter to the St. Johns River Water Management District, McDonald’s Corp. says it wants to demolish the existing restaurant and replace it with a 3,906-square-foot building, which is smaller. CPH Inc. is the consulting engineer.
◾ McDonald’s also will remodel three St. Johns County restaurants at 490 Florida 13 N. in Saint Johns, at $400,0000, and at 1870 Florida A1A S. and 101 Nature Walk Parkway in St. Augustine, at $450,000 Each.

Buc-ee’s, the Texas-based convenience store chain, submitted site engineering plans to the St. Johns River Water Management District on June 22 and to St. Johns County on June 26 to develop its 13.71-acre site at 655 World Commerce Parkway at southwest Interstate 95 and the International Golf Parkway interchange.

England-Thims & Miller Inc., the consulting engineer, prepared plans for a 53,254-square-foot, single-story building with 104 fueling stations and 392 parking spaces.

In May, Buc-ee’s revised its plans with St. Johns County, reducing the number of fuel pumps from 120 to 104 and parking from 417 to 392 spaces.

The company also shifted the front entrance to face World Commerce Center Parkway and relocated the fuel canopies to the sides of the building.

Once the county's site engineering review is approved, Buc-ee’s can can apply for a building permit.

Cecil on tap for fire station, backup call center

The St. Johns River Water Management District is reviewing a permit application from the city for construction of Fire Station No. 73 and a 911 emergency call center at 5845 and 5847 Aviation Ave. in West Jacksonville

The 2.53-acre site is at northeast Aviation Avenue and Airman Drive near Cecil Airport.

Goodson, Nevin & Associates is the consulting engineer. Plans also list Auld & White Constructors LLC and Ebert Norman Brady Architects.

Plans show a proposed 11,000-square-foot, four-bay fire station at 5845 Aviation Ave. and a proposed 13,333-square-foot backup 911 call center at 5847 Aviation Ave.

There also is a small storage building.

City Council enacted an ordinance last year appropriating almost $3.8 million to the project from a Jacksonville Aviation Authority and Florida Department of Transportation grant and a transfer of $2.15 million of the city funding appropriated in the Capital Improvement Plan for the fire station.

The request authorizes an interlocal agreement between the city and JAA that provides for the city to build the new station on property owned by JAA and for operating and lease agreements for Fire Stations No. 73 and 56.

A city legislative fact sheet says Fire Station No. 73 was included in the CIP as a relocation of Fire Station No. 56 but because of economic development announced in the area, the Federal Aviation Administration requires First Station No. 56 to remain at its location on the runway inside Cecil Field.

The 2017-21 Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan will be amended to increase funding for the Fire Station No. 73 project and the No. 56 renovation.

The city said the 911 center is separately funded through the Capital Improvement Program through Safer Neighborhoods.