Life Time Inc. continues seeking permits for its athletic resort club planned at Seven Pines, the residential and commercial development at southeast Butler Boulevard and Interstate 295 in South Jacksonville.
The city is reviewing nine permit applications totaling an estimated project cost of $5.95 million for pools, spas, shade structures and a trash enclosure.
The project is at 11915 Stillwood Pines Blvd.
Life Time has said it plans a two-story, 85,000-square-foot location with a 50,000-square-foot outdoor beach club at Seven Pines.
LTF Real Estate Company Inc. of Chanhassen, Minnesota, where Life Time is based, bought the property for $8.185 million in March 2024 from Sawmill Timber LLC.
The city issued a site-clearing permit Jan. 24, 2025, for the 8.5-acre project at the entrance of Seven Pines, which is at southwest Kernan and Butler boulevards.
That was followed Sept. 17 with a permit for the $3 million foundation.
The pending construction permit, at an estimated $30 million, shows a fitness center, food service area, bistro, pools, locker rooms, offices, retail space, a two-hour babysitting service, a Kids Academy and pickleball.
LTF Construction Co. LLC is the contractor.
It will be Life Time’s first athletic resort club in Northeast Florida and one of several in the state. Life Time is an athletic country club with 185 locations in the U.S. and Canada.
“As we expand into Florida, this is an ideal location for us to bring our healthy way of life experiences to a new community,” said Parham Javaheri, Life Time executive vice president, chief property development officer and president of club operations, in an April 2024 statement provided by email.
Jacksonville-based England-Thims & Miller Inc. is the civil engineer.
Life Time said in 2024 the outdoor beach club will include a combined lap and leisure pool, waterslide, lesson pool, outdoor bistro and resort/lounge-style seating.
Amenities will include eight outdoor pickleball courts; Life Time Kids Academy for ages 3 months to 11 years old; group fitness studios; a training floor with cardio, strength-based and free weight equipment; a basketball court; and men’s and women’s locker rooms and rejuvenation suites with a warm spa, cold plunge, sauna, steam rooms and showers.
Life Time expects to hire more than 150 employees.
The seven Life Time clubs in Florida, including a Life Time Work coworking concept with workspaces and a health club and a Life Time Living with apartments, are in Boca Raton, Coral Gables, Miami, Palm Beach Gardens and Harbour Island (Tampa). Clubs are expected to open in December 2025 in West Boca and in 2026 in Lakewood Ranch and Winter Park.
Jacksonville is not on the list.