Developer Hillwood filed civil engineering plans with the city Sept. 28 for a 278,237-square-foot distribution warehouse at AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center.
Dallas-based Hillwood plans the facility on 37.53 acres at southwest POW-MIA Memorial Parkway and Waterworks Street in the West Jacksonville business park.
The site is Parcel F. No company is identified as the tenant or buyer of the property, which the city owns.
The project comprises the building, parking, truck storage and infrastructure at the undeveloped site. Prosser Inc. is the civil engineer.
Hillwood told the city Sept. 28 that it continues to work with a prospect that wants to lease a 270,000-square-foot build-to-suit facility.
The unidentified prospect initially wanted a 500,000-square-foot center when discussions began in March, according to Hillwood’s second-quarter activity report to the city covering April 1-June 30.
As the city’s master developer at Cecil Commerce Center, Dallas-based Hillwood is required to file quarterly reports.
“Hillwood received and responded to an RFP from the prospect, after which Hillwood and the prospect exchanged multiple proposals, including a reduction in the building’s size to approximately 270,000 square feet,” Hillwood wrote.
“At the end of the reporting period, positive discussions with the prospect were ongoing.”
Hillwood told the city in the report that it released civil, environmental, geotech and topographic consultants to prepare due-diligence reports in support of the potential development. It also evaluated stormwater, wetland and title issues.
Hillwood’s first-quarter report, released in June, came after Hillwood filed civil engineering plans with the city in May to grade almost 63 acres for a 517,510-square-foot distribution warehouse on Parcel F.
In those plans, Hillwood did not identify a user or tenant for the building, which was shown to be built in two phases.
The property is next to the JinkoSolar solar-panel manufacturing plant.
Hillwood won a competitive bid in 2009 to become the master developer of the 4,474-acre Cecil Commerce Center, which is a portion of the former Naval Air Station Cecil Field owned by the city.
Hillwood Senior Vice President Dan Tatsch said this week he had no comment beyond the report.
