Property ownership applied to rezone the closed Kmart property in Mandarin to develop a Home Depot store.
The property is at 9600 San Jose Blvd. west of the intersection with Old St. Augustine Road.
KJS Law of Ponte Vedra Beach is the applicant for property owner Onoudidnt Inc., which is affiliated with Ash Properties.
Ash Properties wants to rezone the 11.6-acre property from Commercial Community/General-1 to Planned Unit Development.
Ordinance 2024-194 is scheduled for public hearings that start April 4 with the Jacksonville Planning Commission, City Council on April 9 and the Council Land Use & Zoning Committee on April 16.
The application says the rezoning will allow for the development and operation of the proposed Home Depot as well as parking and outdoor display and storage of rental vehicles, trailers, merchandise, equipment and outdoor storage sheds associated with the retail store and garden center.
As the project developer, Home Depot U.S.A. Inc. proposes demolishing the closed 105,737-square-foot Kmart and construction of a 106,208-square-foot Home Depot with a 25,225-square-foot garden center and the outdoor uses.
Including vestibules, the total project will be 133,123 square feet.
Greenberg Farrow of Atlanta is listed as the project engineer.
The site will include at least 380 parking spaces, including ADA-accessible spaces.
The Home Depot applied for an environmental resource permit Jan. 18 with the St. Johns River Water Management District.
That application shows Home Depot U.S.A. Inc. as the applicant and the operation and maintenance entity; Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. of Vero Beach as the civil engineer and the registered professional consultant; WD Partners of Dublin, Ohio, as the architect; and Jacksonville-based Ash Properties as the owner through its affiliated Onoudidnt Inc.
There are a dozen Home Depot stores in Northeast Florida.
The closed Kmart site was identified last year for redevelopment as a Home Depot, but the company and Ash Properties have not commented about it.
The city issued a mobility fee calculation certificate March 21, 2023, for a 134,592-square-foot Home Depot at the property.
Mobility fees are calculated to mitigate a development’s traffic impact. No fee was shown.
The 11.5-acre site does not include the separately owned Zaxby’s restaurant along San Jose Boulevard in front of the building.
Property records show the Kmart building was developed in 1979.
Through Atlantic Mini-Storage of America Inc., Ash Properties paid almost $4.39 million for the property Dec. 1, 2015.
Kmart closed there in 2016 but continued to lease the property until parent company Sears Holdings Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October 2018.
Ash Properties said in October 2019 that it intended to renovate the building for several large and possibly a few smaller tenants.