Collins Plaza, a proposed Walmart-anchored shopping center in Southwest Jacksonville, is on the agenda of the City Council Land Use & Zoning Committee at 5 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall.
The proposed ordinance, 2013-469, calls for rezoning 43.73 acres along Collins Road between Interstate 295 and Rampart Road to permit commercial uses.
Gatlin Development Co. proposes a development comprising a 185,989-square-foot Walmart on 16.26 acres along with a gas station and car wash, three flexible-use buildings, a 7,939-square-foot restaurant on 2.03 acres and a 3,240-square-foot fast-food restaurant on just under an acre.
The site plan, calling the project Collins Plaza, shows the three flexible-use buildings at 11,000 square feet on 1.16 acres, 9,600 square feet on 1.15 acres and 9,100 square feet on 1.01 acres.
Gatlin's website, gatlindc.com, describes the project as planned on vacant land at northwest I-295 and Collins Road.
A written description for the rezoning says the applicant, filed as lawyer Karl Sanders on behalf of the landowners, proposes to rezone seven parcels, totaling the 43.73 acres, on the north side of Collins Road, just west of I-295 and the new I-295/Collins Road interchange.
It says that in 2008, the front 13 acres were rezoned as a Planned Unit Development for a mix of commercial retail, office and hotel uses. The current application requests rezoning of the remaining 30 acres to a Planned Unit Development to allow for up to 300,000 square feet of commercial retail and service establishments.
The site has been used for silviculture and agriculture activities, according to the description.
The description says the development will take place on 26 acres, leaving a significant part of the site undisturbed, "providing large buffers from the residential properties to the west and north of the site."
The property is owned by Park City Farms LLC and Olsen Farms LLC, whose manager is real-estate company Thomas Dumas Inc. CPH Engineers is the engineer for the development.
Emed Clinic planned at former thrift store
The City approved a construction permit Thursday for The Shrout Companies to renovate part of the former thrift store at 2624 Atlantic Blvd. as an Emed Primary Care & Walk In Clinic.
The permit calls for a $65,000 tenant build-out in 8,700 square feet of the 27,460-square-foot building. The permit specifies the space as Unit 2. A separate plumbing permit calls for $11,000 of work.
Dr. Rene Pulido, as the managing member of 2624 Atlantic LLC, bought the 1.43-acre property for $400,000 on June 6. He bought the property from D&D Company Properties LLC of Ventura, Calif.
According to the website, emedprimarycare.com, Pulido opened the Emed Primary Care and Walk In Clinic in August 2010 next door at 2570 Atlantic Blvd. in the center anchored by Havana-Jax Café and owned by Silvia Pulido, his mother.
Dr. Pulido is a graduate of the Mayo Clinic Family Residency Program.
The 2624 Atlantic Blvd. property formerly housed The Thrift Store, which has relocated about a mile to the former Food Lion at 3851 Emerson St. in Emerson Plaza. The Thrift Store, one of 20 Red, White and Blue Thrift Store locations nationwide, moved to a site with more parking.
Both properties were owned by D&D Company Properties and both stores are about the same size, although the Atlantic Boulevard location was built in 1955 and sits on about 1.5 acres while the former Food Lion is part of a shopping center that was built in 1988 on about 2.4 acres.
The website describes Emed Primary Care and Walk In Clinic as a new Primary Care Office that will accept walk-in patients and offers primary care and urgent care. It is open 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. The site says Emed Primary Care and Walk In Clinic accepts all major insurance payers and provides self-pay pricing.
"With onsite X-ray and lab capabilities, we are able to meet 90 percent of the health needs of patients 6 months of age and up," it says.
It says the staff consists of bilingual medical professionals to better serve the needs of patents who speak Spanish only.
The site says Pulido's family has lived in Jacksonville since the late 1950s when his father located to the United States from Cuba.
Dr. Pulido attended Assumption Catholic School and then Bishop Kenny High School. "Following the footsteps of his uncle Jesus Pulido, MD, and Alex Pulido, MD, Dr. Pulido and his two brothers, Mario and Danny, attended UACA Costa Rica for Medical School," it says.
Pulido graduated in 2000 and later completed a family medicine program at Mayo Clinic Florida in Jacksonville, "where he learned the values of a teamwork approach to patient care using the latest advancements in technology such as electronic medical records."
After completing the Mayo program, Pulido worked in Jacksonville with Solantic Baptist Urgent Care, now called CareSpot, and then developed Emed. The site says his affiliation with Hospital Corporation of America's physicians "will allow Emed to provide complete and integrated health care to all of its patients."
Community Connections to honor Mallot
JAXUSA Partnership President Jerry Mallot will receive the 2013 Florence N. Davis Award for Community Achievement from Community Connections of Jacksonville.
JAXUSA Partnership is the economic-development division of the JAX Chamber, which Mallot served as interim CEO between the retirement of Wally Lee, who stepped down from the day-to-day job Dec. 31, and the start of Daniel Davis on July 1.
Mallot also served as an executive-on-loan to Mayor Alvin Brown to review economic-development strategies during Brown's transition into office.
Mallot has been with the chamber since Jan. 1, 1994. He is executive vice president of the Chamber along with heading the JAXUSA Partnership.
Community Connections will honor Mallot at its annual "Tribute Celebration of Achievement" event Oct. 3 at the Omni Jacksonville Hotel. The reception starts at 5:30 p.m. followed by dinner at 7 p.m.
Community Connections was founded in 1911 as the Young Women's Christian Association of Jacksonville and serves impoverished families, the working homeless and low-income women, children and families in Northeast Florida. It provides support services and transitional housing.
For information, visit communityconnectionsjax.org or call (904) 350-9949.
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