The proposed Baptist North Medical Campus at northeast Interstate 295 and Dunn Avenue is designed to include a YMCA of Florida’s First Coast fitness and healthy living center in the first phase.
Baptist Health has a long-term strategic partnership with the YMCA of Florida’s First Coast. It will be integrated into the medical campus’s Healthy Living Center at the site.
Eric Mann, president and CEO of the YMCA of Florida’s First Coast, said the inclusion of a new Y Healthy Living Center at the campus is a natural extension of the partnership.
The center will offer Y and Baptist Health wellness programs.
“We believe that this will create more convenient access to care for the families we serve in North Jacksonville,” said Baptist Health President and CEO Hugh Greene.
He said Baptist Health is integrating a focus on health education, disease prevention and wellness through the work with the Y and other community partners.
Baptist Health said the first phase of the campus has been planned and approved with an anticipated investment of $35.7 million.
Work on it should start in the fall with completion by the end of 2016.
The first phase will include an almost 28,000-square-foot, 24/7 emergency center with eight beds for adults and eight for children. The children’s side will be staffed by Wolfson Children’s Hospital-trained pediatric staff.
The first phase also will include a three-story, 40,000-square-foot medical office building.
The Y will take 15,000 square feet of space that it will share on the first floor of the medical office building.
Plans and renderings are expected by November.
No timeline or scope has been determined for future phases.
Baptist Health bought more than 100 acres several years ago at the site, but just a little more than 40 acres will be developed. The remaining property includes protected land and wetlands, which will remain in a natural state.
An application filed with the St. Johns River Water Management District for the development outlines construction of access roads and parking areas to serve the new medical campus at 4401 Dunn Ave.
As described in the Aug. 31 application, that campus could include an emergency/imaging facility, two medical office buildings, a YMCA branch, an ambulatory surgery center, office, retail and restaurants.
The R-A-M Professional Group Inc. is the project agent.
The emergency center for adults and children will be Baptist Health’s third free-standing one. The first opened in 2013 in Clay County and the second will open next summer near St. Johns Town Center and the University of North Florida.
The YMCA says the new Healthy Living Centers at its Mandarin and Ponte Vedra locations are the first of their kind in the area, bringing medically integrated programs from Baptist Health into the Y and making these programs more accessible to the surrounding community.
The flagship Healthy Living Center will be at the new Riverside Y along with Brooks Rehabilitation and Florida Blue.
Chase building-out at Bartram Village
JPMorgan Chase is preparing to build-out space for Chase Bank at the new Bartram Village project at 13920 Old St. Augustine Road.
No contractor is listed on a building-permit application for the office in a 2,654-square-foot space. The project cost is shown as $650,000.
The Bartram Village shopping center comprises three buildings that total more than 25,000 square feet of space to feature six restaurants, three retail stores and a bank.
Previously filed plans show it will feature Zoës Kitchen, Uncle Maddio’s Pizza Joint and Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches, along with Chase Bank, Roxy Nails, Mattress One and Great Clips.
The location is near residential growth areas, Baptist Medical Center South, Flagler Center and other businesses and developments, generating a lot of potential daytime customers
Wells Fargo to close 2 branches
Wells Fargo intends to close two branches in Jacksonville.
One is in Riverplace Tower at 1301 Riverplace Blvd. on the Southbank, where Ameris Bank has leased space for a branch and for its executive offices.
Another is its Memorial Medical Center office at 3627 University Blvd. S., No. 100.
Wells Fargo filed notice of the branch closings Aug. 17 with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency with the U.S. Treasury Department. The filing was a 90-day advance notice of the closings.
Planet Fitness eyed for Flagler Center
Planet Fitness is shown as the new gym planned in Flagler Center.
Ash Construction and property owner Flagler Vision LLC, associated with Ash Properties, applied for a permit for a building in their Flagler retail center.
The 22,000-square-foot building, at 14858 Old St. Augustine Road, is identified on building plans as Planet Fitness.
The project is a $285,000 building shell, which means the interior build-out will be handled under a separate permit.
Dollar General developer plans more stores
Concept Development Inc., the Gainesville-based developer of Dollar General stores, filed site plans with the city for 2.26 acres along Argyle Forest Boulevard opposite of Loch Highlands Boulevard.
The company wants to build a 7,500-square-foot commercial store at the site, but does not identify the retailer.
Concept Development also recently filed site plans with the city for 7,477-square-foot stores at 3801 N. Main St. and at Kings Road and Kings Park Drive.
That’s the size the chain uses.
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