Months after starting operations in September, national distribution operator Anderson-DuBose held a ribbon-cutting ceremony April 20 at its $60 million center in Northwest Jacksonville.
The event drew about 100 guests, including company staff and industry and community partners.
At 4125 Cisco Drive W. about 4 miles north of Interstate 10, the center employs 97 people, said Paul Hammond, senior vice president of operations.
Anderson-DuBose operates cold and dry foods storage facilities and distributes food and paper items to McDonald’s and Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants.
The Jacksonville facility focuses solely on 201 McDonald’s locations across the Southeast, Hammond said.
The fast-food burger chain is pursuing aggressive domestic and international growth, said Joe Erlinger, president of McDonald’s USA. McDonald’s added about 200 locations in 2025, is on track for 250 more this year and plans 300 in 2027, Erlinger said.
“So while you may think that you see McDonald’s everywhere, we are green and growing as a brand, and we continue to add new restaurants, and that requires the support of facilities like this,” he said.
In March 2024, the Jacksonville City Council approved a $1.5 million incentive for Anderson-DuBose, which was code-named Project Bobcat in city documents, to build a 120,000-square-foot facility.
The company said it would create at least 85 jobs but expected 109 by the end of 2028. The annual payroll at the time was anticipated to be more than $5.5 million, which averages about $50,500 per job.
Subsequent city permits were issued for a 153,136-square-foot main building and a 9,502-square-foot accessory building at a combined construction cost of $39 million.
The project plans were prepared for VTRE Development LLC of Scottsdale, Arizona, which is affiliated with the Van Tuyl Cos.
Ohio-based Anderson-DuBose began in 1991 when the company bought a McDonald’s distribution center in Cleveland, according to its website. It operates another facilty in Rochester, New York, and has a facility under construction in Knoxville, Tennessee.
On March 9, 2026, through JI Westlake 160 LLC, VanTrust Real Estate, whose address is 4900 Main Street, Suite 800 in Kansas, sold the distribution property for $66.9 million through a special warrantee deed that went into effect May 16. Through ADUCO Jax Property LLC, the buyer was New York City-based U.S. Realty Advisors, LLC, whose address is 1345 Avenue of the Americas, 21st Floor.
Prior to that, VanTrust entered into a $41.9 million mortgage for the property with Missouri-based Stifel Bank & Trust in August 2024.