A 120,000-square-foot self-storage facility is permitted to advance in St. Johns County.
The county issued a building permit July 11 for the $9.26 million project.
No rezoning is required.
Beachside Self Storage is a four-story, climate-controlled facility at 1490 County Road 210.
It is off Pappy Road just outside the Fountains at St. Johns, a mixed-use center with about 30 tenants and an apartment community anchored by Ascension St. Vincent’s Health Center – St. Johns County, about a half-mile east of Interstate 95.
The Fountains is developing its second phase, which includes restaurants, a hotel and an independent living facility.
The lot size of Beachside Self Storage is about 4.8 acres.
The closest residential development is 388-lot subdivision Sandy Creek about 2 miles away. Another housing development north of that neighborhood called Tidal 210 will bring 294 townhomes. Land for that project sold July 7, but it is not permitted.
About 5 miles east in Nocatee, Greenleaf Village has about 500 single-family homes.
Jacksonville-based Ash Properties owns the land through Pappy Trails LLC. Its subsidiary, Ash Construction, is the contractor. Stinard Architecture of Cartersville, Georgia, is the architect. St. Augustine-based Matthews | DCCM is the civil engineer.
An Ash Properties represenative said units at the facility are flexible and can be used for commercial or personal use.
Site plans show a second building of about 19,000 square feet that is not yet permitted.