Six months after a Fifth Third Bank was proposed in St. Augustine, a commercial application submitted April 13 to St. Johns County indicates the project is moving forward.
The bank is planned for a shopping center anchored by a Publix Supermarket at 1975 Silverleaf Parkway that opened March 26.
Tampa-based BDG Architects LLP is the architect. Jacksonville-based Hutson Cos. owns the land through Silverleaf Outparcel LLC.
The county Development Review Committee is scheduled to discuss the project May 6.
In October 2025, project civil engineer Dynamic Engineering Consultants PC of Delray Beach requested a preapplication meeting with St. Johns County, a preliminary, no-cost step in the permitting process that allows developers to present project concepts to county staff before formal submission.
Fifth Third has 212 branches in Florida, including nine in Jacksonville, according to its website.
SilverLeaf is an 11,000-acre, master-planned community zoned for 17,600 residential units, 2.9 million square feet of mixed-use and commercial space and more than 4,300 acres of conservation land, according to the silverleafflorida.com website.
Other upcoming tenants in the shopping plaza include Avalon Nails & Spa, Club Pilates, Dunkin’, M Shack, SoFresh Jacksonville and UPS.
Four other Fifth Third branches operate in St. Augustine, St. Johns and Ponte Vedra. Another is under construction in the master-planned Rivertown community at 205 Rivertown Shops Drive off Greenbriar Road and Longleaf Parkway following a $2.5 million permit issued in October 2025.
Fifth Third Bank was founded as Bank of the Ohio Valley in Cincinnati in 1858. In 1871, Third National Bank bought the Bank of the Ohio Valley. Third National Bank and Fifth National Bank later merged and eventually became known as Fifth Third Bank.
Today, the states in which Fifth Third operates include Florida, Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia, its website states.