Fuqua Development Principal Jeff Fuqua intends to unveil more details today about his proposed $300 million village center development at southeast Butler Boulevard and Interstate 295 on 67 acres he intends to buy from the Skinner family.
One of the renderings included in the Atlanta-based developer's presentation to the International Council of Shopping Centers North Florida Idea Exchange show his proposed Bold City Food Hall and mercantile hall that opens in the back to an outdoor event lawn and amphitheater.
To the front of it are amenities that include food trucks and an indoor-outdoor bar area.
Across the main street from there is a grocery store.
The rendering also shows apartments that top retail space, a cinema and more retail, office and apartment space.
The main street runs through the project east-west.
Closer to Butler Boulevard is a luxury hotel and office buildings.
While the Bold City Food Hall has been named, Fuqua said Wednesday he has not branded the entire project. He is expected to announce the names of the food-hall chef and the bar operator today.
Fuqua intends to unveil his vision for the mixed-use retail, commercial and residential development that brings a new look at how he sees people shopping, playing living and working in Northeast Florida.
His development will be the retail center of 1,063 acres owned by the Skinner family. A master housing developer-builder is negotiating to buy 450 to 500 acres for residential development.
Both sales are expected to close early next year.
Fuqua is scheduled to make his presentation at 12:30 p.m. at the ICSC event at TIAA Bank Field.
Among the details he has released:
• The 40,000-square-foot Bold City Food Hall will comprise 20,000 square feet for a 20-kitchen food hall and 20,000 square feet for a mercantile hall of 20 bays with up to 700 square feet of space each.
• Stationary food trucks connected to power services whose customers can use the estimated 450 seats inside the food hall.
• An indoor-outdoor bar.
• A specialty grocery store.
• A high-end dinner cinema.
• A bowling center.
• Two luxury hotels.
• Apartments.
• Office space.
• Retail and commercial space.
• Parallel parking as well as parking lots.
• Retail and entertainment lining each side of the main street.
• Buildings topped by offices and apartments beyond main street.
“It’s the most forward-thinking project out there,” Fuqua said previously, calling it a “high-experience” center.
“It should be the place where people in Jacksonville want to come.”
The Fuqua project is designed for 350,000 square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space; 650 to 700 multifamily units; two hotels; and a 60,000-square-foot office structure with the ability to place another 40,000 square feet of space over other buildings to create multistory structures.
The overall Skinner site is designed for residential neighborhoods, the village center, and regional office and commercial uses. Project development plans submitted to the city state that the property could be developed with about 4,600 dwelling units, 3.5 million square feet of nonresidential space, 30 acres for recreation open space, 150 acres of passive open space and 165 acres of public rights-of-way or private thoroughfares.
The Rogers Towers law firm is handling the application to the city. England-Thims & Miller Inc. is the civil engineer. The Skinner family hired Town Planning & Urban Design Collaborative of Nashville, Tennessee, to work with planning firms representing the buyers.
The family said it will retain about 125-150 acres primarily along I-295 designated as mixed-use. It could be sold later.
