Walmart could open another Neighborhood Market in Jacksonville, this one at the Baymeadows Commons shopping center.
Bowman Consulting Group of Stuart submitted plans to the city to develop an almost 42,000-square-foot store at 9550 Baymeadows Road.
The space formerly was used as Bailey’s Powerhouse Gym, which relocated.
It would be the seventh Neighborhood Market in the Jacksonville area.
The markets are Walmart’s supermarket-size grocery stores and just a quarter of the space of a Supercenter.
PICOA Inc. of Los Angeles owns the 9.15-acre center through Baymeadows Commons Ltd. A representative did not return telephone calls or emails.
The Neighborhood Market project developer is listed as Wal-Mart Stores East L.P. in Bentonville, Ark., the headquarters for the global discount retailer.
A spokesman has not returned calls.
Plans for the proposed project show the grocery lease at 3.84 acres, with the remaining site at 5.31 acres.
Now at almost 79,000 square feet, the center would be just over 74,000 square feet with the Neighborhood Market as space is removed to configure the grocery store, according to the plans.
Remaining would be 8,000 square feet of retail space adjacent to Walmart, a standalone Chili’s Grill & Bar and more than 19,000 square feet of retail and restaurant space in another building.
The center is represented by Cantrell & Morgan Inc., which referred questions to the landlord.
The site is at Baymeadows Road and Princeton Square Boulevard. The center was built in 1990.
Walmart Neighborhood Markets operate in Jacksonville in Arlington, Mandarin, Westside and at San Pablo Road and Atlantic Boulevard.
Two more are in Fruit Cove and Middleburg.
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