Allstate continues renovating at The Pondry, the Southside office park previously called the Allstate Campus.
The city issued a permit June 17 for the $626,913 renovation on part of the second floor of The Pondry’s eight-story building for tenant Allstate Insurance Co.’s Roadside Assistance service.
CA South of Roswell, Georgia, is the contractor for the 3,950-square-foot build-out within the 146,800-square-foot building at 4920 San Pablo Road S. at Butler Boulevard and San Pablo Road.
Plans show open office space, huddle rooms and a conference room.
It is joining a separate landlord build-out on the second-floor speculative office suites.
The city issued a permit May 20 for the $679,656 renovation of almost 11,000 square feet of space on the 18,683-square-foot second floor at The Pondry for speculative office suites.
The project comprises spec suites for lease as individual private suites directly from the landlord, and are not a shared-space concept.
JLL is handling the leasing on behalf of landlord Trevato Development Group of Jacksonville Beach.
Owned by Trevato
Trevato bought the 29.77-acre Allstate Campus office park for $20 million in 2024 from American Heritage Life Insurance Co., a subsidiary of Northbrook, Illinois-based Allstate.
Trevato announced the deal May 31, 2024, the same day it bought the property. It said the property comprised three buildings totaling 235,484 square feet of commercial space.
It renamed the project The Pondry.
Duval County property records show two of the buildings – eight floors and two floors – were developed in 1994 and the third – five floors – in 2001.
Trevato said the new Stellar Energy headquarters will anchor the eight-story building.
In one set of proposed redevelopment plans, Trevato said the eight-story and five-story connected office buildings, totaling 192,836 square feet, will remain while the two-story building across the parking lot is being removed.
Trevato has changed its initial proposed redevelopment, which called for the addition of retail space, town homes and condominiums on the site’s parking lot.
Apartments planned
After Jacksonville City Council rejected Trevato’s proposal in December, the developer submitted plans for an apartment development under Florida’s Live Local Act.
It received administrative approval from the city of Jacksonville to redevelop it with multifamily housing that includes affordable units.
Council had voted to deny a rezoning request to redevelop the office park into residential, office and retail space amid heavy opposition from neighbors concerned the development would create heavy traffic congestion and that the density of its residential component was incompatible with its surroundings, among other criticisms.
During hearings before the Jacksonville Planning Commission and Council Land Use and Zoning Committee on the rezoning ordinance, Trevato lawyer Steve Diebenow, a partner with Jacksonville law firm Driver, McAfee, Hawthorne & Diebenow, said Trevato met with neighbors and made significant changes to its original site plan based on concerns aired in those meetings.
Diebenow said April 14 the new plan for the property was developed based on input from residents at those meetings. “The neighbors encouraged our client to build what he could by right, and that’s what he’s working on,” Diebenow said.