Ring Power Corp. bought more property in North Jacksonville next to its heavy-equipment operation for future expansion.
The St. Augustine-based Caterpillar dealer operates a 13-acre dealership at 330 Pecan Park Road. On June 8, it bought 21.64 acres next to it.
Sue Miller, senior vice president and director of marketing, said about 12 acres of the purchased site is buildable.
Miller said the property would allow Ring Power to expand if needed. She doesn’t expect a decision about that for two or three years.
Ring Power paid $900,000 for the land, which it purchased from Jax Land Holding Co. LLC of Farmington Hills, Mich.
Ring Power is one of the largest Caterpillar dealers in the Southeast U.S. It lists 18 branch locations in Florida.
It also has eight facilities in Rhode Island, New Jersey, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Texas and California to serve other specialized customers.
Baptist’s Town Center ER to open next summer
Construction should begin by August on Baptist Health’s free-standing emergency center near St. Johns Town Center and the University of North Florida.
Baptist Health spokeswoman Cindy Hamilton said the project should be complete by summer 2016.
Baptist Health has applied for a permit to build the center at 11026 UNF Drive, between the Town Center and UNF, at a project cost of $8.5 million. The 17,000-square-foot building will be developed on 1.75 acres
It would be the Jacksonville-based health system’s second free-standing emergency center in Northeast Florida. The first is in Clay County.
Hamilton said previously that like the free-standing facility in Clay County, the Town Center facility will be staffed 24/7 by a board-certified emergency medicine physician. Pediatric emergency medicine physicians affiliated with Wolfson Children’s Hospital will be available during peak hours, she said.
HomeGoods to fill Circuit City store
OakLeaf Town Center’s vacant Circuit City space could soon be filled with HomeGoods, which would be the third in the area.
HomeGoods is an off-price retailer of home fashion items. It is part of The TJX Companies Inc., which also owns T.J. Maxx and Marshalls.
The city is reviewing a permit for renovations of the former Circuit City space for HomeGoods. The tenant build-out of 20,227 square feet of space is shown as a $700,000 project.
That store would open at 9625 Crosshill Blvd., No. 101.
Two area HomeGoods stores operate in Southside Square at 9041 Southside Blvd., No. 140, and in Pablo Plaza at 2150 Third Street S. in Jacksonville Beach.
J&J plans another $5M in campus construction
Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, formerly known as Vistakon, continues renovating and expanding at its Deerwood Park campus.
The company, which makes the Acuvue brand of disposable contact lenses, filed two permit applications for almost $5.5 million more in projects.
It applied to build a $4 million 3GT waste plastic expansion of 1,313 square feet at the 7500 Centurion Parkway campus. Gilbane Building Co. is the contractor.
That project will replace the existing system with a modern unit that will handle increased plastic waste productivity for its manufacturing area.
It also applied for a $1.36 million interior alteration of 7,500 square feet of space that it calls the second floor of the Phase 4 part of the campus. Fickling Construction Inc. is the contractor for that project.
The company is working on its Phase 7 expansion at the manufacturing, distribution, research and development, and office campus that is reaching about 900,000 square feet.
It employs about 2,000 people in Jacksonville.
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