An ordinance rezoning more than 61 acres near St. Johns Town Center will be introduced Wednesday to City Council.
The Arthur Chester Skinner III Trust owns the land at Gate and Town Center parkways that an Alabama company wants to buy for a large mixed-use development.
The Skinner Trust wants to rezone the property for commercial and residential uses as a planned unit development. The ordinance will be introduced by the council Land Use and Zoning Committee.
St. Johns Town Center is on 240 acres at northeast Butler Boulevard and Gate Parkway.
The 61.35 acres west of the town center is under contract to Preferred Growth Properties. Of that, about 45 acres can be developed, which the company intends to do with stores, offices, a hotel, recreation areas and apartments and condominiums.
The developer also proposes to pay for traffic improvements at the intersection of Gate and Town Center parkways and to Town Center Parkway that will add turn lanes, access points and a trail for pedestrians, runners, bicycles and others.
Rogers Towers lawyer T.R. Hainline, representing the property owner, filed the rezoning application. He said in early March the property sale could be completed this year. The developer and owner would be PGP Jacksonville TC LLC. The planner and engineer is ETM Inc.
Preferred Growth Properties, a subsidiary of Books-A-Million, has a contract to buy the property from the Skinner family, which also sold the land for development of the 10-year-old St. Johns Town Center.
According to the PUD summary, the densities permitted include up to: 500,000 square feet of enclosed retail and commercial space, 100,000 square feet of office space, 400 hotel rooms and 500 multifamily residential units.
Hainline said a lane will be added from Gate Parkway right onto Town Center Parkway, creating dual continuous right-turn lanes.
Also, dual left-turn lanes from Gate Parkway onto Town Center Parkway will be configured that don’t conflict with the dual right turn lanes, he said.
The developer will add access lanes at Gate and Town Center parkways into the now undeveloped land at that intersection. There also will be several cuts for right-turns in and out in the area.
The transportation improvements would be completed before building permits were issued for vertical construction, Hainline said.
Preferred Growth Properties has not shared details about building sizes, potential retailers or whether the multifamily units would be apartments or condominiums.
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