Pattillo Industrial Real Estate envisions what appears to be a larger retail development than originally considered along Pritchard Road, west of Interstate 295.
City power provider JEA is reviewing a request to determine the service availability for a proposed 67,000-square-foot commercial and retail development along with associated outparcels on 22.18 undeveloped acres north of Pritchard Road between Jones and Magill roads.
Property owner Stone Mountain Industrial Park Inc. a subsidiary of Pattillo, is the applicant. Both are based in Atlanta.
Pattillo Vice President Peter Anderson said by email May 29 that as the land owner, Pattillo has been asked “by an interested potential purchaser to request guidance from JEA as to the availability of utilities.”
He said he believes the prospective purchaser “is evaluating which different users/occupiers might have an interest in the location.”
“I do believe that the addition of amenities to serve the area would be welcomed by both businesses and residents in the area,” Anderson said.
On March 5, 2025, JEA issued a letter of service availability for the site for the 50,000-square-foot Shops of Pritchard.
That area of Northwest Jacksonville, north of I-10 and Beaver Street, has been developed with thousands of acres of distribution centers, logistics hubs and manufacturing, primarily among the Westside and Westlake Industrial Parks.
It’s also an area of generational homesteads as well as a fresh landscape for new housing.
A JEA letter does not mean a development will take place, just that one is being explored.
Anderson said March 6, 2025, that the Shops of Pritchard would be a land sale “to a prominent retail development firm” that he did not identify.
He said the number of buildings that would account for the space has yet to be determined.
“The project is in the preliminary phases but the explosion of residential growth in the area (some 8,000 home sites are under construction) has created a need for grocery and retail services,” he said then by email.
Should there be a grocery store, they can range from 25,000 to 50,000 square feet.
Smaller stores, such as the hair and nail salons, restaurants and other tenants that typically join grocery-anchored centers, usually range from about 1,000 to 5,000 square feet,
There is no detail about outparcels, which is where gas stations, fast-food drive-thrus and coffee kiosks usually settle in.
The service-availability requests come as some area land owners and developers welcome more retail to the Westside.
“If there are any retail developers here, you ought to go out and buy property,” said Landings Real Estate Group President Christopher Bicho at the March 2025 BisNow “Jacksonville State of the Market” presentations at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront Downtown.