City permits JTA, Balfour Beatty $40 million U2C center

The “nerve center” for the Ultimate Urban Circulator will be developed at 650 W. Bay St. in Downtown Jacksonville.


The Jacksonville Transportation Authority Autonomous Innovation Center in LaVilla.
The Jacksonville Transportation Authority Autonomous Innovation Center in LaVilla.
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The city issued a permit Aug. 9 for Balfour Beatty Construction LLC for construction on the almost $40.54 million Bay Street Innovation Corridor at 650 W. Bay St. in LaVilla.

As part of the project, the city’s permit is for a two-story, 15,019-square-foot structure is designed on 1.28 acres on a site near Broad and Water streets in LaVilla as the nerve center for the JTA’s Ultimate Urban Circulator system of automated people movers. 

It is referred to as the U2C.

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