City civil plan review is starting for The Anderson-DuBose Co.’s proposed $60 million cold and dry foods storage facility in Westlake Industrial Park in Northwest Jacksonville.
Project plans show a larger facility than the 120,000-square-foot center stated in incentives legislation.
Civil engineer England, Thims & Miller Inc. submitted plans March 19 for the project, known during the City Council incentives vote as Project Bobcat, on 33.22 acres along Cisco Drive West.
Westlake Industrial Park is north of Interstate 10 and west of I-295 in West Jacksonville.
The Planned Unit Development verification plan shows two buildings totaling 156,665 square feet of industrial cold storage and associated office and trailer maintenance facility development.
The largest building is 147,577 square feet comprising 138,505 square feet of industrial space and a two-story, 9,072-square-foot office area.
The smaller building of 9,088 square feet is the trailer maintenance and service station facility.
The project plans are prepared for VTRE Development LLC of Scottsdale, Arizona. The company is affiliated with Van Tuyl Companies, a privately owned family office that also owns VanTrust Real Estate.
VanTrust is active in office and industrial commercial development in Jacksonville.
Norfolk Southern owns the property through Westlake Land Management Inc. and has been selling land to developers.
Council voted March 12 in favor of Resolution 2024-0156 providing a $1.5 million Recapture Enhanced Value Grant to Ohio-based Anderson-DuBose.
Anderson-DuBose is a minority-owned distributor headquartered near Youngstown in eastern Ohio.
According to a summary document filed with the legislation, Anderson-DuBose plans a 120,000-square-foot facility on about 40 acres in the industrial park. The civil engineering plans indicate a larger project.
The company says it will create at least 85 jobs but expects 109 by year-end 2028. The annual payroll is anticipated at more than $5.5 million.
The summary states a completion date of December 2026 for the project.
Anderson-Dubose’s website says the company began in 1991 when it bought a McDonald’s distribution center in Cleveland and added a second in 2007 in Pittsburgh.
The company consolidated those facilities in 2013 at its location in Lordstown, northwest of Youngstown. That same year, it bought a third McDonald’s distribution center in Rochester, New York.
