The city issued a permit June 17 for Brantley Construction Services of Florida LLC to build out shell space for a U.S. Navy training facility in EastPark Business Park.
Brantley Construction, of North Charleston, South Carolina, will renovate 50,000 square feet of shell space at a cost of $300,000.
The city permit indicates the total renovation cost from shell to tenant use will be almost $16.4 million.
The Navy is preparing space for a training facility at 11660 Central Parkway for an MMSC – Multi-Mission Surface Combatants – vocational and training facility.
The Navy said June 7 the location will be used to provide training facilities and administrative space for electronic ship operator and maintenance training to about 300 military students as part of a U.S. Foreign Military Sales case.
It said it chose the location because it was large enough to provide the required office space to accommodate the Multi-Mission Surface Combatants training mission and associated administrative spaces.
The Navy said there was no available space at Naval Station Mayport for the facility, which will host up to 300 MMSC and shore support students plus staff and instructors.
The facility will provide MMSC ship-specific training courses, as well as high-fidelity simulators and virtual reality training devices to prepare crew members, watch teams and shore support personnel to operate and maintain the ships.
Colliers International Senior Director Eric Bumgarner, who represents the property owner, said June 1 the construction time frame is about 320 days.
He said the owner of the Store51 bedding e-commerce site owns the property and decided to rent a separate office and provide his distribution through a third-party logistics provider.
Bumgarner also is listing the property for sales as an investment with the U.S. Navy as a tenant.
