By Karen Brune Mathis, [email protected]
Jacksonville area city and business leaders herald corporate headquarters as a priority catch in economic development.
Not only do they recruit them, but they especially want to keep them.
And grow them, such as with Dream Finders Homes.
Orange Park-based Dream Finders Homes LLC, ranked the area’s second-largest homebuilder last year behind D.R. Horton, filed a permit application to build the shell of a three-story, 47,111-square-foot office building.
It’s planned on almost 1.6 acres in the Bartram area in Jacksonville.
The address will be 14701 Philips Highway, just north of St. Johns County.
Brasfield & Gorrie LLC is the contractor for the almost $3 million shell building. The interior build-out would be permitted separately.
The architect is Rolland, DelValle & Bradley and the civil engineer is Taylor & White Inc.
Dream Finders, through DFH Office LLC, bought the 30.24-acre site July 30 for $750,000.
The company was formed in 2009 and is led by Patrick Zalupski, Tobi McGuigan and Mark McGuigan, according to state corporate records. Zalupski is president.
Dream Finders Homes announced in January it had expanded into two new markets, marking its evolution from a Northeast Florida regional builder to a national presence. It secured land in Savannah, Ga., and Boulder, Colo.
Dream Finders said deals were in place to expand into Orlando and Austin, Texas.