Aldi, the Germany-based grocer with five discount stores open in Duval and Clay counties, is expanding into Nassau County.
Upham Inc. submitted site engineering plans to the St. Johns River Water Management District for a 22,731-square-foot Aldi on 2.53 acres in Yulee.
The site is part of a 10.45-acre development at Florida A1A and Gene Lasserre Boulevard.
Aldi Florida LLC is the developer and the land owner is The Commercial Range at Amelia LLC.
Aldi is at least doubling the number of the five locations it operates in Northeast Florida.
It developed its first three stores along Southside Boulevard and in Clay and St. Johns counties. It has since built and opened its new-concept stores in West Jacksonville and in Town Center Promenade.
Including Nassau County, the next five are planned in Regency, along San Jose Boulevard and in Oakleaf in Duval County and another in Clay County.
Area real estate director Jason Povlick said in the summer that the Nassau County site was planned.
Povlick said several Aldi stores would open in the Jacksonville market over the next several years, but he did not want to be specific.
The discount grocer’s new look includes a modern design with natural lighting and other display and inventory enhancements.
Aldi said in February it is spending $1.6 billion to implement the new design in 1,300 of its U.S. stores by 2020 while continuing to open new stores.
A Colliers International marketing brochure shows that four parcels are under contract at the Yulee development and one 1.14-acre parcel remains.
The Water Management District filing states that Panda Express has been permitted at the site.
Southside will gain the Butler95 office-warehouse condo project at 8200 Cypress Plaza Drive.
The city approved shell construction of the four-building project and a dumpster enclosure Tuesday at a construction cost of $1.27 million. C.&R. General Contractors Inc. will build it.
Butler95 will comprise almost 70,000 square feet on 5.3 acres.
Butler95 is in development by Property Theater LLC, led by Charles Skinner and Justin Clark. Butler95 LLC is the owner.
The units start at $216,000 for 2,400 square feet. Contiguous space runs up to 14,400 square feet.
The first units are expected to be available in the spring. Clark said 10 of the 29 units are sold.
Skinner said Butler95 is targeted at small warehouse users such as those providing distribution, general warehousing and light fabrication.
Clark said the first shell building is expected to be completed in March, followed by another building monthly April-June.
Butler95 LLC comprises The Charles Skinner Co., Clark RE Services and JJML Realty Holdings LLC.
American Freight Inc. seeks a Certificate of Use for American Freight Furniture in 24,450 square feet at 8661 Old Kings Road S. in Brierwood Village Plaza.
A website for property owner TSG Realty says the property is anchored by Winn-Dixie, Planet Fitness and American Freight.
American Freight Inc., based in Delaware, Ohio, operates more than 150 stores nationwide.
AmericanFreight.com lists two American Freight Furniture and Mattress stores in South Jacksonville at 7380 Philips Highway and in Westside at 6024 103rd St.
Two former Aetna Inc.-leased floors at Eight Forty One on the Southbank will be renovated for One Call Care Management, the new anchor tenant of the riverfront office tower.
Adams Interior Contractors Inc. will renovate about 66,000 square feet on the fourth and fifth floors at 841 Prudential Drive for use by One Call.
The tenant build-out is $732,143, according to the permit issued Tuesday.
One Call provides workers’ compensation care management services.
It has been leasing 120,000 square feet at the tower and is adding the additional space as it relocates suburban staff into the building.
It will expand its workforce there to about 1,200 employees.
One Call will put its name on two sides of the building with tenant Baptist Health’s name on the other two sides.
Aetna moved to Gramercy Woods on the Southside.
Aetna’s name is coming down from the Southbank tower and One Call will post signs early next year.
The 22-story tower has 19 floors of rentable space.
Topaz Lighting, based in Holtsville, New York, will move its Jacksonville distribution center to 780 Whittaker Road in Imeson International Industrial Park in North Jacksonville.
Topaz Lighting operates at 2020 W. 26th St. The city approved a permit for $542,336 in renovations to 89,600 square feet of leased space in the 281,000-square-foot building in Imeson.
Dav-Lin Interior Contractors Inc. is the contractor for the project, to include offices, a meeting room and a break room.
Jacob Horsley and Tyler Newman, directors with Cushman & Wakefield, represented Topaz in the lease negotiations.
Horsley said Topaz distributes in the Southeast.
He said the company has been leasing 42,552 square feet in the West 26th Street building since 2012 and is renting another 53,760 square feet month-to-month until the Whittaker Road warehouse is ready.
Luke Pope, senior vice president of JLL, represents the landlord, MDH Partners LLC.
Topaz makes electrical fittings and LED lighting products.
El Jefe was OK’d for build-out at 947 Edgewood Ave. S. in Murray Hill.
Satilla Inc. is the contractor for the $495,963 project to turn 4,016 square feet of space into a 158-seat Tex-Mex restaurant.
The restaurant is owned by Chef Scott Schwartz, owner of the 29 South Restaurant in Fernandina Beach. El Jefe will be in the former Curry Thomas Hardware building.