Dollar General Corp. is building-out office space in a distribution center that it is leasing in Imeson International Industrial Park in North Jacksonville.
The city issued a permit Feb. 3 for a $102,000 tenant improvement for office space in a 408,570-square-foot building at 10760 Yeager Road, developed by Webb International Inc. of Orlando.
Webb Southeast Construction Corp. of Orlando is the contractor.
Dollar General says it “has been delivering value to shoppers for more than 80 years … by offering products that are frequently used and replenished, such as food, snacks, health and beauty aids, cleaning supplies, basic apparel, housewares and seasonal items at everyday low prices in convenient neighborhood locations.”
On its website, dollargeneral.com, the company says it operates more than 18,000 stores in 47 states.
Dollar General is based in Goodlettsville, Tennessee, north of Nashville.
Imeson International Industrial Park Inc. President Dan Webb said by email Oct. 14 that Dollar General began occupying the warehouse Oct. 1.
He said it will distribute retail goods but did not know how many employees it will hire or what distribution area it will serve.
Cushman & Wakefield Managing Directors Tyler Newman and Jacob Horsley represented the landlord in the lease transaction.
Webb said Food Properties Group, a California-based real estate brokerage firm, represented Dollar General.
The foodpropertiesgroup.com site lists a 408,240-square-foot Jacksonville transaction for “ambient distribution.” Ambient means storage at room temperature.
The city issued a permit Aug. 25, 2021, for the warehouse, with no identified tenant, at a construction cost of almost $14.7 million.
Webb Southeast Construction was the contractor for the project on about 25 acres.
Imeson International Industrial Park Inc. filed plans with the city in January 2021 for the warehouse at northeast Main Street and Zoo Parkway.
The developer proposed a building with 74 rear loading docks and 95 trailer parking spaces along with 212 – expandable to 425 – parking spaces.
Plans showed it was being built on a speculative basis for single-tenant storage occupancy.
A Cushman & Wakefield brochure says it was completed in August 2022.
Dollar General Chief Operating Officer Jeff Owen, who became CEO on Nov. 1, said Aug. 25, 2022, during an earnings conference call with analysts that the company had recently announced plans to “significantly increase” its supply chain capacity by building three distribution centers in North Little Rock, Arkansas; Aurora, Colorado; and Salem, Oregon.
Each is about 1 million square feet of space. The call did not mention the Jacksonville facility.
The Arkansas and Oregon facilities will be combination traditional and fresh distribution centers.
The Colorado facility will be a traditional dry goods distribution center.
Dollar General said the projects will create more than 1,000 jobs.
The company is continuing to deploy its “Fast Track” initiative, a sorting process in its nonrefrigerated distribution centers, as well as increased shelf-ready packaging, to improve store-level stocking efficiencies.
The greatest concentration of stores is in the Southern, Southwestern, Midwestern and Eastern United States.
The ScrapeHero.com data site says Dollar General has 1,016 stores in Florida and 1,025 in Georgia. It says there are almost 19,000 stores in 47 states.
Dollar General says its merchandise includes national brands from leading manufacturers, as well as its own private brand selections “with prices at substantial discounts to national brands.”
“We offer our customers these national brand and private brand products at everyday low prices (typically $10 or less) in our convenient small-box locations,” it says.
It says the majority of its customers “are value-conscious, and many have low and/or fixed incomes.”