Agents for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. filed site improvement plans for a Walmart Neighborhood Market in the former Food Lion store at San Pablo Road and Atlantic Boulevard.
It is the retailer’s third confirmed Duval County site plan for a Neighborhood Market, all in closed Food Lions so far.
Plans show a 49,433-square-foot Walmart Neighborhood Market at 1650 San Pablo Road S. The engineer is CPH Engineers.
As the Daily Record previously reported, City reviewers also are looking over preliminary plans for Walmart Neighborhood Markets in Arlington at 8011 Merrill Road and in Mandarin at 10550 Old St. Augustine Road.
Food Lion closed its Florida stores, including a dozen in Duval County, early this year.
Sources have said Wal-Mart plans five to nine Neighborhood Markets in Northeast Florida. The stores are typically 42,000 square feet in size, a quarter of the size of the average 185,000-square-foot Supercenter, according to Wal-Mart.
Developers plan more Dollar General and Family Dollar stores, too.
MVG Development of Ponte Vedra Beach filed preliminary construction plans for a Dollar General at 13857 N. Main St., near Duval Station Road. The 9,026-square-foot store is planned on 3.23 acres.
MVG also is working on a Dollar General at 8913 Normandy Blvd. The 9,100-square-foot store sits on 2.57 acres.
Meanwhile, developer Twin Rivers Capital LLC of Charleston, S.C., filed for review of a Family Dollar on 2.51 acres at 4302 Moncrief Road. The 8,320-square-foot store carries a construction cost of $350,000.
As the Daily Record reported Tuesday, discount grocers are expanding throughout Jacksonville, with Save-A-Lot expected to open in two former Food Lion stores in North and West Jacksonville as well as one in St. Augustine.
Save-A-Lot, a subsidiary of grocery giant Supervalu Inc., joined Walmart Neighborhood Markets, Dollar General and Family Dollar, among others, in expanding in Northeast Florida.
Save-A-Lot has nine Northeast Florida stores, including seven in Duval County, according to www.save-a-lot.com. Save-A-Lot stores average 15,000 square feet in size, according to the company.
In addition to the Moncrief Road location, Family Dollar, already with 43 stores in Duval County, plans stores at the current site of Warren Motors at 233 E. State St. and in Arlington at 1612 St. Johns Bluff Road N. Warren Motors intends to move to the Brentwood area.
Dollar General operates 25 stores in Duval County and, in addition to the Normandy Boulevard and Main Street locations, plans another at 7700 Merrill Road.
Carol Dole, associate professor at the Jacksonville University Davis College of Business, told the Daily Record this week that the popularity of the stores was easy to identify.
“Very briefly, it’s the economy. They’re addressing that segment of the labor force that is being hit harder with unemployment,” Dole said.
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