Amazon is putting its final touches – its signs – on its West Jacksonville same-day delivery station north of Interstate 10 and west of I-295.
The city is reviewing a permit for two wall signs on the east and west elevations at 1700 Imeson Road.
Plans show Amazon and AmazonFLEX as the signage.
They include the Amazon “smile” sign.
The center is in operation and employs more than 100 full-time employees, said an Amazon spokesperson by email Jan. 2.
“We recently launched fresh groceries via Same-Day Delivery from our Imeson Road facility,” said the spokesperson.
“Customers can visit Amazon.com/grocery to check which grocery options are available in their area.”
Dubak Electrical Maintenance Co. of LaGrange, Illinois, with a Florida office in Orlando, is the contractor for the estimated $70,000 signage project.
AIREIT Commonwealth Logistics Center LLC in Denver is listed as the property owner and landlord.
The city issued a building permit July 16 at a project cost of $12 million for internet retailer Amazon.com’s same-day delivery station in development to add a refrigerated area so that customers can fill grocery orders within hours.
Bryan Builders LLC of Longwood is the contractor for the project.
Amazon updated the tenant space in the sortation and delivery warehouse for the refrigerated storage program.
“This expansion of our Jacksonville network with refrigerated capabilities allows us to better serve customers with same-day delivery of grocery items alongside traditional merchandise,” said Sam Blatt, senior manager of economic development at Amazon, in an emailed statement June 4 when the permit application was filed.
He said the investment “demonstrates Amazon’s commitment to Northeast Florida, where we continue to create jobs and provide our customers with faster delivery options for a wide variety of products.”
Called Amazon SJA1 SSD, the facility will be a same-day delivery fulfillment center designed to enable faster shipping.
The 12,000-square-foot refrigerated area will be operational around-the-clock, plans showed. The permit showed it as part of the more than 270,000-square-foot center.
Amazon is using Building 2, a 272,190-square-foot building in the 39.13-acre Commonwealth Logistics Center at northwest Imeson Road and Commonwealth Avenue.
Products will arrive by tractor-trailer trucks that use the loading dock positions on the truck court.
When unloaded, the products will be sorted into refrigeration units and then staged to be loaded into delivery vehicles.
Storage racks will be rolled into the loading area and the packages will be loaded into the personal vehicles of contract workers for final delivery.
The warehouses have been described as smaller, regional facilities designed to deliver high-demand items to customers within a 60-minute drive using the Amazon Flex delivery network, which allows people to use their own vehicles to make deliveries.
The city issued a permit March 14 for Bryan Builders to build-out the facility at a project cost of $16.6 million.
It issued a permit April 29 for Designed Conveyor Systems LLC of Franklin, Tennessee, to install a conveyor system at a project cost of $4.22 million.
On June 21, 2024, the city granted an administrative deviation from the city zoning code, saying the property owner was retrofitting the warehouse to provide for Amazon in the 272,190-square-foot structure built in 2023.
The city then issued a horizontal development permit July 17, 2024, at a project cost of $100,000.
Plans referred to the project as SJA1. Documents confirmed it as Amazon.
Amazon uses codes for its properties. SJA1 means it is the first of its kind in Jacksonville.
Through AIREIT Commonwealth Logistics Center LLC, Ares Management LLC paid $8.9 million for the land in June 2022.
Commonwealth Logistics Center was developed by InLight Real Estate Partners. Cushman & Wakefield is the leasing team.
Amazon has 12 Jacksonville centers.
The Seattle-based online retailer opened its first two fulfillment centers in September 2017 in Northwest Jacksonville followed by the October 2017 opening in AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center, with the help of $26.7 million in city and state incentives for creating 2,700 jobs.
Fulfillment centers reach 1 million square feet in size.
Since then, it opened another fulfillment center, two sortation centers, a heavy bulk freight center and several delivery stations.
None of those subsequent facilities received incentives.