Dream Finders Homes LLC is moving ahead on plans to demolish two of the seven office buildings in Prominence Office Park in Baymeadows to develop 204 town homes.
Dream Finders Homes owns Prominence, at southwest Baymeadows Road and Interstate 95 in South Jacksonville.
The Jacksonville-based company applied March 2 to the St. Johns River Water Management District for an environmental resource permit for the project within a 28-acre boundary in Prominence.
Dream Finders would demolish the buildings and remove their parking lots. It would create new ponds, fill the existing ones and provide underground utilities and stormwater management facilities.
Dream Finders, through limited liability companies, owns the seven buildings. The two it proposes to demolish first are the Nassau Building, also known as Building 300, and the Suwannee Building, which is Building 700.
The city issued a permit Nov. 11, 2025, for ELEV8 Demolition of Jacksonville to tear down Building 300. ELEV8 confirmed March 3 the building is down. No permit appears to be in review for Building 700.
The Nassau Building was a 96,512-square-foot, three-story building built in 1998 on 7.01 acres at 8935 Prominence Parkway.
The Suwannee Building is a 24,395-square-foot, two-story building built in 1988 on 3.16 acres at 8875 Liberty Ridge Drive.
Jacksonville-based civil engineering firm England-Thims & Miller Inc. is the project applicant.
Prominence plans
Through DFH Prominence LP, Dream Finders Homes LLC bought Prominence Office Park in June 2024 for $22 million with the intention to redevelop the property.
The park comprises 15 parcels, including the seven office structures built from 1988 to 1998 and totaling 754,691 square feet of space.
A previously filed site plan indicated that Building 300 would be the first to be demolished, followed by Building 700 and then Building 500, the Jackson Building.
Jacksonville City Council approved twin pieces of legislation Feb. 25, 2025, to allow for up to 1,435 multifamily units on 71.76 acres of developed and undeveloped land in the park. The approvals included rezoning from Planned Unit Developments approved in 1974, 1996 and 2001 to a new PUD that allowed for the infill residential development.
England-Thims & Miller filed a service availability determination request with city utility JEA in September 2025 for Dream Finders Homes to develop 204 town homes. The review is in progress.
Plans indicated the town homes would be developed on 32.52 acres bordered within the park by by Prominence Parkway and Dix Ellis and Freedom Crossing trails.
The town home project is called Prominence Park.
There is no indication of what’s next for Buildings 100, 200, 400 and 600. Those are the Gunti, Osborn, DeSoto and Hamilton buildings.
Southeastern Grocers used Building 200, the Osborn Building, at 8928 Prominence Parkway for its headquarters but returned to West Jacksonville at year-end 2025 as its lease expired.
Plans fell through for the Duval County School Board to buy that building for use as the district’s new administrative home.
Property history
DFH Prominence LP bought the property from Crocker Partners V Freedom LLC.
Boca Raton-based Crocker Partners bought what was then called the Freedom Commerce Centre office park in December 2012 and renamed it Prominence Office Park.
It also dropped the building names and numbered them from 100 to 700, but the names remain in public and regulatory filings.
Deeds show that the buildings are on about 51.55 acres, while the remainder is roughly 6.65 acres of vacant commercial land, 5.71 acres of parking lots and 4.14 acres of wasteland and right of way.