Mayo Clinic in Florida has landed the permit for the $2.5 million project to build up its south entrance at its South Jacksonville campus.
The city issued a permit Aug. 28 for Auld & White Constructors LLC of Jacksonville for hardscaping to include a retaining wall, fountains and site improvements on 16.02 acres.
It comes after the permit issued Aug. 19 for Auld & White Constructors to make site improvements for the project and associated site work at a project cost of $946,985.
The address is 4786 Transformation Way.
Mayo Clinic in Florida is working on the entrance and exit off Butler Boulevard. It is the second main access into the Jacksonville medical complex and will look more like its main entrance off San Pablo Road.
Mayo is at 4500 San Pablo Road S. at northwest San Pablo Road and Butler Boulevard.
The south entrance also offers access to the 252-room Hilton Hotel at Mayo Clinic that will open at 4745 Transformation Way on the campus. The hotel is accepting reservations starting Oct. 1.
Plans show drivers would make a right turn into the entrance and a right turn out of it.
Senior Communications Specialist Tia Ford said by email Aug. 15 that Mayo Clinic opened the entrance to the campus off the Butler Boulevard westbound ramp in 2022.
She said the existing access point is both an entrance and an exit.
Ford said that entrance and exit now will be further developed similar in design to the main San Pablo entrance and exit.
She said the new entry road was in design after that entrance opened.
Travelers heading west may access the entrance along the on-ramp to Butler Boulevard.
Those heading east along Butler Boulevard who want to take that new entrance may take the San Pablo Road exit under the Butler Boulevard bridge, make a U-turn and enter the campus on the right-hand side of the road.
ELM Inc. of Jacksonville is the landscape architect.
In addition to the main San Pablo Road entrance, the campus can be accessed from points along WM Davis Parkway, which runs to the north and west of the existing property.
Mayo Clinic is preparing to expand into property north of WM Davis Parkway.