Harbour Retail Partners intends to buy 11.2 acres next week at the Tamaya development to build Tamaya Market, a 75,000-square-foot shopping center to be anchored by Sprouts Farmers Market.
Randy Kelley, Harbour Retail manager and developer, said construction at the northwest Beach and Tamaya boulevards center is scheduled for next year.
The location is east of Kernan Boulevard.
Kelley estimates the project at more than $20 million.
Kelley said he had letters of intent with four more prospective tenants in addition to Sprouts, which announced its plans last week to open at the location.
He declined to identify the prospective tenants.
Harbour Retail Partners, a real estate fund with a focus on necessity-based retail, is based in Wilmington, North Carolina, and has an office in Atlanta.
“We develop grocery centers around the Southeast and this is in our wheelhouse,” Kelley said Monday.
Kelley said the 75,000-square-foot Tamaya Market will be anchored by the 30,000-square-foot grocery store along with 25,000 square feet of inline shop space and three outparcels of about 1 acre each.
Harbour Retail Partners will buy the land from the ICI Homes group, the Tamaya developer.
Colliers International will handle leasing, led by Nancy Sumner and Katy Figg, vice presidents of retail services.
Kelley said bids will be sought for the contractor, which would be someone known by Harbor Retail Partners or one that has built a Sprouts.
Sprouts Farmers Market, a Phoenix-based healthy foods retailer, announced Wednesday that it would open a second store for Jacksonville.
The first will open in a former Best Buy store at The Markets at Town Center.
It has not announced opening dates for the grocery stores.
The chain previously was identified as the probable anchor at a neighborhood shopping center at Tamaya.
The Jacksonville Sprouts stores are in addition to the company's previously announced plans to expand in Florida in Clearwater, Deerfield Beach, Jupiter, Miramar, Naples, Oviedo, Riverview, Trinity and Wellington. The grocer currently operates six stores in the state.
Sprouts employs more than 28,000 people among more than 300 stores in 19 states.
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