Dallas-based developer Hillwood made a service availability request July 1 to city utility JEA for a potential 500,000-square-foot industrial building in AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center.
A conceptual site plan refers to it as the Proposed Project Anchor Distribution Center on four sites south of Waterworks Street, west of POW-MIA Memorial Parkway. The site is west of the Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations center.
Hillwood did not include a name of the tenant or user or the type of distribution it might need.
“Hillwood has no comment on deals we might (or might not) be pursuing at AllianceFlorida,” said Executive Vice President Dan Tatsch in an email July 1.
A JEA request means the applicant wants to determine the level of utility service available at a site for a project. It does not mean there is a deal in place or that the project will be pursued.
The conceptual site plan by civil engineering firm BGE Inc. is dated May 29.
It shows a larger proposed building at 657,600 square feet on 129.59 acres.
General site data says the building would comprise 642,000 square feet of warehouse space and 15,600 square feet of office use. The data shows parking spaces would be provided for about 1,805 trailers, 520 standard sizes, 531 cars, 11 ADA accessible, and 30 bicycles.
The data says there would be 241 dock positions, which is where trucks load and unload goods.
The warehouse is described as a light industrial tilt-wall building, a process in which concrete panels are cast on-site and then tilted up into a vertical position to form the walls.
Hillwood labels the project as Cecil Commerce Center – Parcels LMNO on the service availability form. Those four parcels are identified with a real estate number at the Duval County Property Appraiser that shows an almost 583-acre site.
The conceptual site plan shows the 129.59-acre Project Anchor Distribution Center parcel in the upper northwest corner.
Hillwood, the city’s master developer at AllianceFlorida, provides quarterly reports to the city about activity at the West Jacksonville industrial park.
It said in the first-quarter report, for January-March, that it received and responded to a preliminary inquiry from a broker representing a company interested in leasing about 700,000 square feet of industrial space, but there is no indication that query is related to Project Anchor.
Cecil Commerce Center is generally between Interstate 10 and Normandy Boulevard, with some property south of Normandy, on both sides of the parkway. It is west of Interstate 295.
The city is the property owner. Hillwood is the operator.
The city’s master development agreement calls for Hillwood to build-out AllianceFlorida on about 4,499 acres of city-owned property that is part of the former Naval Air Station Cecil Field.