Armstrong Plaza
Plans are moving forward to transform an uncleared lot in Middleburg into a two-story, 10,000-square-foot building that would include a cigar bar, sit-down restaurant and drive-thru liquor store.
Called Armstrong Plaza, the project was confirmed in August 2025 by project manager Rinku Amin, who plans to develop the concepts with his uncle and partner, Dinesh Patel.
The Clay County Development Review Committee signed off on the project April 16. Civil review began June 18.
The site borders Armstrong Way to the west, Resilience Way to the north and Canaveral Trace to the east.
The mixed-use project has evolved since it was proposed last year.
In August 2025, plans called for the cigar bar to be on the first level, with the restaurant on the second floor, possibly with outdoor seating.
New plans flip the layout, with the cigar bar upstairs and the restaurant downstairs. The liquor store remains unchanged, and the restaurant concept has not been finalized, Amin said.
In addition to the Middleburg project, Amin’s extended family owns the Gold Ox Liquors chain of stores.
IKO
More than two years after it broke ground, global roofing manufacturer IKO Industries held a grand opening June 17 for its 300,000-square-foot asphalt shingle production facility in Clay County.
According to the Canada-based company, the facility is the result of a $240 million capital investment and will bring 100 jobs to the county.
It is the first plant in Florida for IKO, which celebrates its 75th anniversary this year.
IKO built the plant on about 80 acres at 815 IKO Industries Road east of U.S. 301 about 10 miles south of Interstate 10. IKO CEO and co-chair David Koschitzky said there is room to grow at the site.
According to a news release, the campus is planned to include two more production lines, including insulation boards and residential underlayment rolled roofing.
Attendees at the grand opening included facility manager Dan Lindahl, Clay County Economic Development Corporation President Crawford Powell, Clay County Chamber of Commerce President Jon Cantrell and Guy Tremblay, IKO vice president of North American operations.
According to the company’s website, IKO has more than 35 plants worldwide serving 96 countries. In addition to the Clay County facility, it has 10 more in the United States.
Jacksonville-based Dana B. Kenyon Co. was the project contractor for the IKO plant.
Lincoln Memorial University
The first classes at Lincoln Memorial University’s College of Veterinary Medicine in Orange Park started June 8.
The campus at 335 Crossing Blvd. is about 12 acres and totals 130,000 square feet across two adjacent buildings. The private, nonprofit university’s main campus is in Harrogate, Tennessee, with another in Knoxville.
At a March 23 ribbon cutting, university officials said the expansion is intended to increase training capacity for physicians and veterinarians and help address ongoing provider shortages in Florida, particularly in rural and underserved areas.
The Orange Park campus also includes the DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine, where classes are scheduled to begin this fall, according to the college’s website.
An LMU representative said the university expects about 200 students in the first classes across the two colleges. More than 3,000 applicants were interviewed, they said.
LMU said more than 40 faculty members and 45 additional staff would be involved in the program. The student-faculty ratio will be 1-to-1 for clinical rotations and 5-to-1 for labs.
AutoZone MegaHub
The city issued a building permit April 9 for a $1.4 million project to convert part of the downsized Burlington in Regency Plaza in Arlington into an AutoZone MegaHub store.
Plans for the future AutoZone show about 20,225 square feet for the sales area and about 11,200 square feet for storage.
With AutoZone stores typically 6,500 to 8,000 square feet, the retailer is opening Hub stores of 16,000 to 20,000 square feet and MegaHub stores of 33,000 to 35,000 square feet, according to about.autozone.com.
HJB Construction Inc. of Charleston, South Carolina, is the contractor for the work, which will build-out 31,460 square feet at 9824 Atlantic Blvd. for the auto parts retailer.
The city issued a permit March 11 for the landlord to split Burlington to create space for AutoZone at a project cost of $683,000.
SupplyChainDive.com reported in March 2024 that the MegaHubs can carry up to 110,000 products and quickly replenish inventory at satellite locations in nearby markets.
Aldi distribution center
The city granted a building permit May 12 for German discount grocer Aldi to renovate its Baldwin distribution center at a project cost of $21.83 million, the second permit in a week that allows it to launch work toward a $35.1 million conversion for its use in 2027.
Aldi is leasing the facility as it expands throughout the Southeast after acquiring more than 200 stores from what is now The Winn-Dixie Company LLC.
Aldi, with U.S. headquarters in Batavia, Illinois, proposes to renovate 1.12 million square feet of storage and distribution space at 15500 W. Beaver St. facility in West Jacksonville where C&S Grocers was leasing.
The city issued a building permit May 5 for a $13.31 million project to renovate 729,209 square feet.
The May 12 permit allows an interior alteration to the existing 391,600-square-foot perishable and distribution warehouse.
Aldi confirmed Jan. 16 that it planned the distribution center in the former C&S Wholesale Services facility to support its nationwide expansion.
C&S Wholesale Services, also called C&S Wholesale Grocers, closed that center in July 2025.
The center serviced Winn-Dixie, which Aldi acquired as part of its purchase of the store’s parent company, Jacksonville-based Southeastern Grocers, in 2024, now rebranded The Winn-Dixie Company LLC.
In 2025, Aldi sold back about 170 stores to Southeastern Grocers after the company was acquired by a consortium of private investors, including C&S.
C&S began working with Winn-Dixie in 2013 when the grocer merged with Greenville, South Carolina-based Bi-Lo Holdings to form Southeastern Grocers. C&S had worked with Bi-Lo since 2005.
The Village at Seven Pines
Following a groundbreaking earlier this year, Regency Centers announced June 16 the first restaurants planned for The Village at Seven Pines, the Publix-anchored shopping center it is developing at southeast Interstate 295 and Butler Boulevard.
The Village began taking shape at southeast Butler Boulevard after the city issued permits Feb. 9 to start with projects, including the Publix, at costs totaling $26.92 million. The restaurants include Ember & Iron, Hawkers Asian Street Food, Lynora’s, 1928 Cuban Bistro and Chipotle Mexican Grill. They are expected to open in 2027, according to a news release.
The shopping center is the retail component of Seven Pines, a roughly 1,000-acre master-planned community that is designed for about 1,600 single-family homes, apartments and more than 1 million square feet of commercial and retail space. Regency, founded in Jacksonville in 1963, plans to relocate its headquarters from Downtown to the development.
The restaurants join previously announced tenants, including Chase Bank, RE Spa and retailers Pottery Barn Kids, ToyTopia and Williams Sonoma.
Patrick McKinley, Regency Centers’ senior vice president and senior market officer, said the lineup blends local, regional and national operators chosen to complement one another.
Winn-Dixie headquarters
One week after Jacksonville City Council approved an incentive package to keep Winn-Dixie in Jacksonville, The Winn- Dixie Company LLC debuted its Westside corporate headquarters May 19 at 5050 Edgewood Court.
On May 12, Jacksonville City Council approved up to $12 million in financial incentives, a deal that also included an agreement to keep a Brentwood-area Harveys Supermarket open through at least February 2029. It has been converted to a Winn-Dixie store.
The incentive package includes a 20-year, 50% REV Grant, which is a refund on ad valorem tax revenue generated by new development or property improvements, and a Headquarters Retention Grant of $1.3 million annually, beginning in October 2027.
In exchange, Winn-Dixie has committed to a $65 million capital investment and the addition of 200 jobs at its new headquarters, according to a memo from the city’s Office of Economic Development.
Under the incentives deal, Winn-Dixie agreed to return to the Council Finance Committee 18 months before its lease on the 48th Street store ends in February 2029 to provide an update on efforts to stay in the area. Additionally, should Winn-Dixie fail to see out the lease, it would pay back the Headquarters Retention Grant approved by Council.
Should Winn-Dixie close the Brentwood store, it would have 18 months to open another store in the area.
Previously known as Southeastern Grocers, the company moved its headquarters from Edgewood Court across town to the Baymeadows area in 2016 through 2025, while continuing to lease space at Edgewood Court for IT functions.
One Tower Court
The Jacksonville Jaguars’ new headquarters building, One Tower Court, opened in the spring of 2026. PCL Construction Services Inc. announced in June 2026 it had completed construction on the six-story office building along East Bay Street across from EverBank Stadium.
Auld & White Constructors completed interior build-out work, including the Jacksonville Jaguars Headquarters, YMCA, Timucuan Asset Management space and Foley & Lardner space.
Anderson-DuBose
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.
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 on 201 McDonald’s locations across the Southeast, Hammond 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.
At the time, the company said it would create at least 85 jobs but expected 109 by the end of 2028.
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.
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 facility in Rochester, New York, and has a facility under construction in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Village Crossing Center
Village Crossing Center, a three-building development on Jacksonville’s Southside, is fully delivered and operational with a slate of tenants open for business.
They include medical spa and wellness center Modern Aesthetic Centers, self-care and recovery studio Degree Wellness and Club Pilates. A Cushman & Wakefield broker said a Baptist Neurology outpatient practice is in the final stages of receiving its certificate of occupancy and should open in the coming weeks.
Developer Paul Hassan said in March 2024 that Village Crossing Center was designed as three buildings totaling nearly 43,000 square feet at the northeast corner of Gate Parkway and Village Crossing Drive.
The site is north of Ikea along Gate Parkway. At 11525 Village Crossing Drive, the project comprises the two-story, 36,300-square-foot Unit 1000 shell medical office building, the 2,500-square-foot Unit 2000 and the 3,550-square-foot Unit 3000.
Hurd Construction Management LLC of Jacksonville was the contractor for the project built on 3.34 acres.