Phillips & Hunt is vacating is office space at the Greenleaf Building Downtown and moving to Riverside.
Founding partner John Phillips said he bought an office building at 660 Park St.
Duval County Clerk of Court and property records show Phillips paid $1.3 million for the 5,434-square-foot building in a deed executed Aug. 23.
Phillips and Matthew Hunt bought the property through P&H Park St. LLC.
The marketing flyer for the property at Park Street and Peninsular Place said it has a large executive office and five other offices looking into a central courtyard, four restrooms, a kitchen and 24 parking spaces.
“We moved into Greenleaf five years ago. It was pre-COVID when being proximate to courthouses was more essential. I moved to Jacksonville in 2001 and spent 2001-2011 downtown. We came back in 2019 and will leave by the end of the year to be close, but not in the core,” Phillips said.
The move is motivated partly by the lease expiring, but mostly by conditions on the street, he said.
“I have seen a lot in those 23 years. Downtown is as bad as I have ever seen it. A knife fight occurred in the last couple months where an employee had to shut and lock the door. Vagrants have come in our office and scared employees and one grabbed an employee as she entered the building. Enough is enough.”