Fidelity National Information Services confirms it wants to prepare space for a Pet Paradise Resort and Day Spa at the financial technology services company’s Brooklyn headquarters.
Jacksonville-based FIS applied to the city for permitting review of an estimated $1.5 million project to add the pet care center.
Pet Paradise would occupy the designated “urban activation space” that FIS built adjacent to its garage at 347 Riverside Ave. The resort would face Riverside Avenue.
The one-story, 6,000-square-foot space is an extension of the garage. The roof of the extension would serve as a play yard and pool area for the pet resort.
The application says the project includes an elevator and interior stairwell to the roof.
FIS applied for review as Jacksonville-based Pet Paradise separately requested the city look at plans for it to build-out the resort.
Those plans show an estimated cost of $1 million for the 11,892-square-foot project.
Pet Paradise would build-out a pet resort in a ground-floor building and on the rooftop of the structure that is connected to the FIS parking garage.
Pet Paradise, which is 20 years old, and FIS did not respond to questions about the project.
Kasper Architects + Associates, also based in Jacksonville, is the architect.
The urban activation space was developed for ground-floor office and retail use to serve the community, indicating the pet resort could be available both to FIS employees and the public.
The pet resort’s top level is the roof of the extension to include a play yard and a small splash-pad pool amenity.
The ground level would consist of a check-in lobby, administrative and support space, grooming and boarding suites, a Tiny Town for smaller pets, play yards and dog-bone-shaped interior pool, among other features.
FIS cut the ribbon Oct. 21, 2022, to open its $156 million headquarters at the Riverside address in Brooklyn.
When plans for the financial technology firm’s 12-story office building were unveiled in 2019, FIS promised to add 500 jobs to the 1,216 workers it already had in Jacksonville.
The project was approved for $29.9 million in city and state incentives.
FIS built an eight-level parking garage with 1,647 parking spaces connected to the office tower on the first and second levels with an air-conditioned garage elevator lobby.
Pet Paradise Resort opened its first location in 2002 in St. Augustine. It now has 50 locations in nine states.
Petparadise.com shows eight locations in Northeast Florida.
The resorts offer dog and cat boarding facilities, dog grooming services, veterinary care and doggy day camps. Amenities vary by location.
The permit review requested by FIS says the scope of work includes revisions to the existing building shell to meet tenant needs. That would include the addition of an elevator and interior stair to the roof level.
The tenant improvements would be permitted separately, as requested by Pet Paradise.
The FIS plans, dated Nov. 11, show that England, Thims & Miller Inc. is the civil engineer, Hines is the development manager, and Gensler is the architect for the company’s Northbank riverfront campus.
The application says it is prepared for Fidelity Information Services LLC, which is an affiliate of Fidelity National Information Services Inc.