The Strand at Town Center, already announced for restaurants, retail stores, services, a hotel and apartments, can add urgent care to its tenant list.
CareNow, part of the HCA Healthcare company, wants to build-out a 4,553-square-foot urgent care center at 4888 Town Center Parkway.
Tenant improvement plans filed with the city show CareNow Jacksonville would have 12 employees.
The Strand and its neighboring The Crossing at Town Center are under development by Preferred Growth Properties, the real estate subsidiary of Books-A-Million.
Anchor retail tenants at The Strand include Best Buy, Hobby Lobby, PGA Tour Superstore and 2nd & Charles.
CareNow is shown on plans at the endcap of a smaller multitenant building fronting Town Center Parkway.
CareNow career postings include full-time primary care physicians in Jacksonville, connected with Memorial Hospital, an HCA facility.
A job summary states: “WANTED! PRN Physicians for CareNow Urgent Care Clinics to Top Vacation Spot – Jacksonville, Florida.”
It further invites candidates to “join us and build something FANTASTIC!”
It says the “top-ranked and largest national health care organization has launched a new brand of Urgent Care Clinics and we are taking our nation and major markets by storm.”
The carenow.com site shows 72 locations in 10 areas among eight states, including one in Orlando. Another is coming soon to Southern California.
CareNow specializes in urgent care, family practice, and occupational health services.
In late 2014, HCA purchased CareNow, then a privately held chain of 24 urgent care centers serving Dallas-Fort Worth. CareNow became a division of HCA.
CareNow was founded in 1993.
Nashville-based HCA says it operates 171 locally managed hospitals and 119 free-standing surgery centers in 20 states and the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1968.
Site clearing permit in works for UPS
Site clearing and more work is being set in motion for the expansion of the UPS regional package distribution center in Westside Industrial Park.
The city is reviewing a permit for site clearing and horizontal development of the site at 4420 Imeson Road.
That permit shows a project cost of $17.5 million and would prepare the site for a 373,960-square-foot addition.
Plans show the expansion will increase the 532,046-square-foot center to 906,006 square feet. The existing facility was built in 1989.
Plans also show that there will be 1,680 peak-hour employees, an increase of more than 730 from the current more than 950, based on parking spaces.
Another permit is for a loading dock at the address.
In the meantime, UPS is using other locations to accommodate some functions as it works toward a phased completion of its expansion in fall 2019.
UPS will lease a 400,000-square-foot building in Westlake Industrial Park as a relief hub for processing UPS Ground packages during construction. That’s the former Samsung building.
It also will use property at 3938 Imeson Road, previously leased for trailer staging, for a relief operation. That will process UPS air express volume for destinations outside Florida. It is adding a modular structure there. That property should be ready by the fall.
UPS announced in November it will invest $196 million to expand its Jacksonville ground package hub.
City Council approved $4.3 million in taxpayer incentives for the project.
The incentives legislation said the global logistics solutions company would create 10 jobs that would pay an average $50,675 a year by the end of 2020.
UPS also will add advanced technology and operations automation. The hub’s capacity will increase by one-third to more than 80,000 packages per hour.
Jacksonville’s operation is one of the larger U.S. ground processing facilities for UPS and a transit point to connect road and rail in the UPS network.
More than 1,650 full and part-time UPS employees work at both the hub and its adjacent four package centers.
A zoning application showed it would increase parking spaces from 954 to 1,661. The legislation said the company already employs 965 people.
As a footnote, one permit listed the address of 4255 James E. Casey Drive. UPS spokeswoman Susan Rosenberg at Atlanta headquarters explained that Casey was the founder of UPS and the company often renames roadways at its larger facilities in honor or memory of people or events.
James E. Casey Drive is part of the UPS property in Westside Industrial Park.
A Kentucky hub is called the Centennial Hub, and the adjacent roadway Centennial Way, because it opened in 2007 when the company turned 100.
This year, the company celebrates 110 years in August.
Development note
• Pet Paradise-Racetrack LLC bought property for the Pet Paradise Resort prototype on 1.7 acres at northwest Race Track Road and Walden Springs Way. Construction is anticipated to start in July for a spring 2018 completion.
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