Flint Development of Kansas is exploring development of Airport Commerce Center, a 316-acre site north of Jacksonville International Airport.
Property owner Subema LLC of Tallahassee requests an environment resource permit from the St. Johns River Water Management District that indicates a potential six-building industrial park comprising 1,861,880 square feet of space.
The site is west of Interstate 95 and Pecan Park Road, and south of Gold Star Family Parkway.
The site is bordered to the north by a solar farm, to the east by Pecan Park Road, to the south by Jacksonville International Airport and to the west by Seton Creek
Jacksonville-based England-Thims & Miller Inc. is the civil engineer.
Peacock Consulting Group LLC, also based in Jacksonville, is the environmental consultant.
The plans were prepared for Flint Development of Prairie Village, Kansas. Prairie Village is a suburb of Kansas City.
FlintDevelopment.com says its experience includes developing industrial and multifamily projects.
It says it has $2 billion and 18.5 million square feet of development in its project pipeline.
It says it has developed more than $568 million and nearly 7.44 million square feet of speculative industrial space to meet demand in key markets.
Flint could not be reached immediately for comment.
The developer’s site shows 28 industrial projects in 16 states, but none in Florida.
Its one Georgia project is the three-building Dorchester Commerce Park in Midway that totals more than 2.1 million square feet of space.
The project is off I-95, and the brochure says it is 95 miles north of Jacksonville.
Two buildings – 276,062 square feet and 594,552 square feet – are to be completed this year.
A 1,244,571-square-foot building is slated for an April 2025 completion.
More project details
Subema LLC requests the permit for the mass clearing and grading of the property as well as installation of stormwater ponds and control structures to support the development.
It specifies that about 214 acres would be graded on the 316-acre site.
A field exploration diagram shows six buildings:
• Building A – 204,120 square feet.
• Building B – 544,320 square feet.
• Building C – 141,960 square feet.
• Building D – 182,520 square feet.
• Building E – 544,320 square feet.
• Building F – 244,640 square feet.
An executive summary from geotechnical consultant ECS Florida in Jacksonville said the firm understands that the project will consist of an industrial warehouse development.
The first phase would comprise four warehouses – Buildings A-D – that total 1.07 million square feet of space, along with four stormwater ponds, pavement areas and a lift station.
Subema acquired the land in 2022-23.
City utility JEA updated its service availability determination in April for Subema Industrial, initially reviewed in October 2022.
Subema Logistics was described as 2.5 million square feet of industrial space.
The Subema contact on the permit did not immediately return a phone call.
Saxum park
The Airport Commerce Center site is near Saxum Real Estate’s proposed almost 3.8 million-square-foot Arnold Road Industrial Park on more than 800 acres in North Jacksonville.
Those plans show 10 buildings that range from 126,080 to 1,061,760 square feet.
In emails and statements since Jan. 24, 2023, Saxum said it was working on the project with KABR Group, a private equity real estate firm based in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey.
Through Arnold Road PropCo LLC, Saxum paid almost $14.5 million in December 2022 for two parcels at Arnold Road and Gold Star Parkway.
It bought the land from Laurens Street LLC of Ponte Vedra Beach.
“Saxum and KABR are evaluating several options for the developable portion of the property including industrial use to support the continued growth of container volume at JAXPORT and the increased focus on freight at the Jacksonville International Airport,” Saxum said in a January 2023 statement.
“The project plans to address the undersupply of new, Class A industrial space, which is required to support the significant growth of logistics demand in the market.”