Carvana, the online used-car retailer, is moving ahead on its auction and reconditioning “megasite” in Northwest Jacksonville with the filing of civil engineering plans Jan. 20 with the city.
The project is a new 77,000-square-foot inspection and reconditioning facility and 6.9 acres of staging. Two existing buildings remain for wholesale auction use.
Carvana plans the project at its ADESA wholesale auction property on 89.32 acres at 11700 New Kings Road. The site is in the Dinsmore area about 3 miles northwest of Interstate 295.
Carvana, based in Tempe, Arizona, is the owner and developer. Atwell LLC of Jacksonville is the civil engineer. WHN Architects of Charlotte, North Carolina, is the architect.
City power provider JEA issued a service availability letter Sept. 30 for the project, described as development of a Carvana maintenance and storage site on about 90.8 acres. A JEA letter indicates a project is being explored and does not confirm a project will proceed.
Separately, the city received an application for a mobility fee calculation certificate for the project, specifying a more than 77,000-square-foot Carvana inspection and reconditioning facility on an 89.32-acre site at the New Kings Road address.
That application shows a 5.45-acre proposed paved parking lot on the site as part of the project.
It’s not clear why the acreages differ on the applications.
Carvana has declined to comment.
Carvana says ADESA is a leader in the wholesale auto auction industry, serving customers online and at its locations across the country.
Duval County property records show the Jacksonville location comprises three buildings totaling 38,127 square feet of space among an office building and two buildings for service and repairs.
ADESA Florida LLC owns the 89.32-acre site. Adesa Corp. of Indianapolis bought the property in 1994 and developed it in 1996.
State corporate records show ownership was amended in 2022 to that of Carvana. In May 2022, Carvana, then based in Phoenix, announced its $2.2 billion acquisition of ADESA’s U.S. auction business from KAR Global.
The acquisition comprised the 56 ADESA U.S. locations totaling about 6.5 million square feet of buildings on more than 4,000 acres.
What to expect
Information on Carvana.com outlines what is anticipated at the ADESA site.
In August 2024, Carvana announced it would develop its first auction and reconditioning “megasite” in Kansas City, Missouri.
It said Carvana would establish inspection and reconditioning center capabilities at the ADESA Kansas City wholesale auction site while maintaining all digital and in-lane auction operations.
That indicates ADESA continues its regular functions while adding the Carvana capabilities.
“This location will anchor the growth of Carvana’s retail and wholesale operations in the area and enhance the company’s offering for retail and commercial customers,” the company said in a news release.
Carvana said the suburban Kansas City site would be the first of the 56 ADESA wholesale auction locations to become an “auction-IRC Megasite.” IRC is “Inspection and Reconditioning Center.”
It expected the transition to create about 200 entry-level and skilled manufacturing jobs as the site expanded.
The vending machine
Carvana said in the 2024 release that its customers can choose from tens of thousands of vehicles and arrange for home delivery or local pickup in more 300 U.S. markets.
A signature function is what it terms its “Car Vending Machine,” such as that along Lenoir Avenue, off of I-95 near Butler Boulevard.
Carvana can deliver a car to the customer’s location or to a vending machine, where the buyer drops a custom coin into a slot, activating the delivery system.
Third-quarter update
In the company’s third-quarter letter to shareholders, posted Oct. 29, 2025, Carvana wrote that through July 1-Sept. 30 it “continued to expand the number of locations where we can produce retail inventory by integrating three more ADESA locations. This brings our total number of ADESA integrations to 15 and our total number of retail inventory pools to 33.”
“We have real estate to support annual retail production of 3 million units and, by the end of 2025, we expect to have fully built out annual retail production capacity of over 1.5 million across our Carvana and integrated ADESA production locations,” the shareholder letter says.
“In 2026, we expect to continue to integrate ADESA locations at a similar rate as in 2025 and begin construction on full build outs at select ADESA locations throughout the year.”