Taylor Sign & Design Inc. is preparing to put names on a face.
Two corporate names are being positioned to headline the former McKesson building at 6651 Gate Parkway, with the largest for new anchor tenant Acosta Group and a smaller one for fourth-floor tenant Dark Matter Technologies.
The city is reviewing a permit application for Jacksonville-based Taylor Sign & Design Inc. to put up the signs on the top of the west-facing side of the four-story building. That side faces Gate Parkway.
Acosta Group
“The planned signage will be a great way for our company to stand out in the Jacksonville community as a leading and growing employer and business,” said Acosta Group Executive Vice President Mike Smith in an email July 11.
Jacksonville-based Acosta Group, a 98-year-old global marketing, retailing and brand placement company, relocated its headquarters from Southpoint to Southside Quarter at southwest Butler Boulevard and Interstate 295.
The move is to a smaller space.
Smith has said the move “to a newer, modern facility” supports its growing business worldwide and enhances its presence in Jacksonville.
Acosta Group provides services that connect consumer packaged goods companies with retailers to put products in front of shoppers.
The company is subleasing 60,204 square feet of space on the first and second floors of the four-story, 125,532-square-foot building, where it plans a grand-opening event for its new global headquarters when renovations are completed. LAY Construction is the contractor.
The structure, with 120,407 square feet of leasable space, was developed in 2019 for medical and surgical supplies company McKesson Corp.
Smith, who leads Acosta Group corporate communications and marketing, said the new space accommodates Acosta’s 250 Jacksonville-based staff members and will help attract new talent with its central location and amenities.
He said Acosta Group has 60,000 employees in North America, the United Kingdom and in other locations where needed by clients.
Smith said the Acosta Group name likely will be put up on the top of the building’s west side, at the main entrance, the week of July 14.
With Acosta Group taking occupancy, the former McKesson building appears to be fully leased.
Acosta Group is taking the first two floors.
For the third, the city issued a permit in July 2024 for LAY Construction to renovate 25,596 square feet for Selene Finance at a project cost of $313,856.
Dark Matter
For the fourth, mortgage technology company Dark Matter Technologies, which separated from Black Knight, announced in June 2024 it moved its headquarters to the top floor of the building.
Dark Matter Technologies announced in November 2024 that Sean Dugan, the company’s chief revenue officer, would succeed Rich Gagliano as CEO effective in April 2025.
Gagliano launched Dark Matter in 2023 after more than a decade of leadership at its predecessor, Black Knight Origination Technologies. He became executive chairman.
Dark Matter Technologies is part of the Perseus Operating Group, a division of Constellation Software Inc.
McKesson has not responded to requests for comment.
Industry sources say McKesson moved out of the building because of the coronavirus pandemic as employees worked remotely, and the building was put on the market for sublease.