Shottenkirk Automotive Group of Iowa and Texas bought Subaru of Jacksonville property this week from PJP L.L.C., led by the Porter family.
The purchase appears to be Shottenkirk’s entry into Florida.
A deed recorded Sept. 10 with the Duval County Clerk of Courts shows that Shottenkirk Jacksonville Properties LLC, based in West Burlington, Iowa, paid $30 million for three parcels totaling 10.017 acres at 10800 Atlantic Blvd. in East Arlington and 1717 St. Johns Bluff Road S.
Shottenkirk also has executive offices in Frisco, Texas.
The Porter family, owners of Subaru of Jacksonville, had no comment Sept. 10.
The deed was executed Sept. 8.
The dealership and service buildings total 67,284 square feet.
R. Phil Porter registered PJP L.L.C. with the state in 2000. Roxanne D. Porter is the LLC manager and signed the deed.
Shottenkirk Automotive Group has 28 dealerships representing 18 brands in Texas (11); Georgia, (six); three each in Alabama, Iowa and Illinois; and two in California.
Shottenkirk.com says its dealerships stock the latest models from more than a dozen car manufacturers, including Buick, Dodge, Ford, Kia, Lexus and Toyota.
The Jacksonville purchase appears to add Subaru to the new brands it sells. Its website shows it carries used Subaru models.
Subaru of Jacksonville operates a sales showroom and service garage on about 3.8 acres at 10800 Atlantic Blvd., built in 1971, and added a new showroom, repair garage and car wash in 2024 on St. Johns Bluff Road.
The parcels touch in a back corner, wrapping around the Discovery Plaza shopping center at southeast Atlantic Boulevard and St. Johns Bluff road with access from both roads.
The city issued a permit May 23, 2023, for Stellar Group Inc. to build a $13.18 million sales and service facility on 6.13 acres at 1717 St. Johns Bluff Road S., near Subaru’s existing dealership on Atlantic Boulevard.
The city issued a permit Jan. 27, 2023, for Stellar to clear the site and start horizontal development at a cost of $2.86 million.
That boosted the dealership investment to at least $16.6 million.
Property owner PJP L.L.C., part of the ownership of Subaru of Jacksonville, bought the 6.13 acres Sept. 9, 2020.
Phil Porter, president of Subaru of Jacksonville, and then the managing member of PJP, said April 5, 2022, the development would be part of the new car dealership along Atlantic Boulevard.
The two dealerships will provide for 40 service lifts, he said.
Porter opened Subaru of Jacksonville in 2000.
It has been a family-owned and -operated new and used vehicle dealership.
The Shottenkirk site says its business started more than 60 years ago in Abingdon, Illinois, with the opening of Dean and Bob’s Chevrolet. Bob Shottenkirk took over sole ownership four years later and served the communities of western Illinois for 20 years before moving the dealership to downtown Fort Madison, Iowa, in November 1984.
The site says Shottenkirk Chevrolet/Oldsmobile grew quickly in southeast Iowa. In the fall of 1989, following the death of Bob Shottenkirk, his son, Greg, assumed the primary leadership role in the dealership.