Whole Foods Market is in permit review for tenant build-out at 1 Riverside Ave. in the One Riverside retail, apartment and park development on the Downtown Northbank at the base of the Acosta Bridge.
The city is reviewing plans for the estimated $7.5 million project to complete the 38,300-square-foot Building 1000 along the Northbank riverfront in the Brooklyn area.
Tenant work follows construction of the shell building, which the city permitted Oct. 23, 2024, at a job cost of almost $1.21 million. Young Contracting/SE Inc. of Atlanta was the contractor.
Work has been ongoing with plumbing, electrical, fire system and mechanical permits issued since February for a total $1.156 million.
Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market will lease and operate the grocery store. For the tenant build-out, RCC Associates of Deerfield Beach is the contractor, John Paul Frank of BRR Architecture Inc. in Overland Park, Kansas, is the architect. Codes-ABC Inc. of Orange Park is the private provider for code compliance.
Plans include meat, produce, seafood, bakery, grocery, prepared foods, body care and specialty sections. There are tables for customers to eat at the store.
The site is the former campus of The Florida Times-Union daily newspaper.
Solidcore joining second retail building
Atlanta-based Fuqua Development is developing Whole Foods Market and a separate retail building for lease to tenants.
For that second building, the city issued a permit in October 2024 for Young Construction/SE Inc. to build the 8,000-square-foot shell Building 200 at a project cost of $1.207 million.
The shell building would be leased to tenants, who would then prepare their spaces.
Plans indicate spaces for at least three tenants. A permit is in review for a Solidcore workout studio in Suite 215.
The city is reviewing a permit application for Solidcore to build-out a fitness studio in 2,104 square feet of space at an estimated project cost of $300,000.
Metric Building Group of Miami is listed as the contractor. DxU Architecture of Chicago is an architect on the project.
The buildings also are called 100 and 200.
Building 200 is planned on one side of the entrance into the project. Whole Foods Market is planned as Building 100 on the other side.
Fuqua Development is developing the retail property as Fuqua BCDC One Riverside Project Owner LLC.
Atlanta-based Phillips Partnership is the architect. Prosser Inc. of Jacksonville is the civil engineer.
The Colliers Urban Division represents Fuqua in leasing the retail space.
Fuqua Development bought the 18.8-acre site in February 2022 for $25 million. It sold 4.3 acres to TriBridge Residential LLC of Atlanta for $15.5 million to develop two phases of apartments.
Fuqua also sold 4.95 acres to the city to restore McCoys Creek and create a public park.
Jacksonville City Council awarded the development a $31.59 million incentives package in November 2021.
The estimated $250 million One Riverside Jacksonville project is designed on the site where The Florida Times-Union operated since 1967. The newspaper moved to leased space in the former Wells Fargo Center, now called 1 Independent, Downtown.