Pattillo Industrial Real Estate continues preparing for a speculative industrial building on the last undeveloped site in Westside Industrial Park.
Atlanta-based Pattillo is requesting that city utility JEA determine the availability of service for a 337,500-square-foot building along a new road named Cowford Court in the West Jacksonville industrial park.
Moore Civil Consulting Inc. of Perry, Georgia, submitted the request Sept. 11 to JEA for the service available for Building 42, truck courts, car parking and more elements for the project.
A JEA request means a project is being explored and is not necessarily a done deal, although this one appears to be another step in the project’s progress.
Pattillo submitted civil engineering plans with the city July 16 for the project, which is on property north of Jesse B. Smith Court.
“This is all speculative in preparation to make the site more marketable and to consider for speculative construction,” said Pattillo Vice President Peter Anderson by email Sept. 11.
Anderson said July 17 it is the last undeveloped site in Westside Industrial Park and will need a road and utilities extended to it.
“Our effort is to develop the horizontal (road and utilities) to allow it to be 'shovel ready' for building construction when warranted,” he said.
Anderson said Pattillo might build the structure in phases, starting at 225,000 square feet with the space to expand.
He said it will be a cross-dock facility for a single tenant with parking for 200 cars and 100 trailer spaces. It will have power to accommodate manufacturing.
He said in July that no tenant has signed.
Moore Civil Consulting is the civil engineer. Pattillo Industrial is marketing the project for now, Anderson said.
Pattillo Industrial Real Estate has been developing Westside Industrial Park, a 1,600-acre property north of Pritchard Road and west of Interstate 295. UPS, among the largest companies in the park, has a distribution hub there.
Westside Industrial Park is north of I-10 and Beaver Street.