With permits in review for construction at the site, the city is considering a request to demolish the Baymeadows building developed in 1983 for AT&T American Transtech.
HGR Construction Inc. of Altamonte Springs is the contractor for the estimated $2 million project, which would demolish the three-story, 456,000-square-foot office building at 8000 Baymeadows Way. The property is west of Interstate 95 and north of Baymeadows Road within the Deerwood Center office park.
The demolition plan calls for a “top-down, outside-in approach” that starts with removal of the roof structures, followed by demolition of upper floor exterior walls and removal of floor slabs section by section, continuing downward floor by floor. The foundation will be the last to be removed.
Materials will be recycled as possible or sent to a landfill. Hazardous materials will be sent to a licensed facility.
AT&T American Transtech developed the campus to handle shareholder services for the court-ordered breakup of AT&T.
Duval County property records show that Transtech built four, three-story connected buildings totaling 353,269 square feet and a two-story, 106,275-square-foot computer/telecom data center on 28.29 acres. The square footage totals almost 460,000 square feet.
After several ownership transitions through sales, the 43-year-old structure is now in line for demolition followed by development into a warehouse park.
The city has been reviewing permit applications for Foundry Commercial Group of Orlando to build speculative warehouses totaling 403,936 square feet at a combined estimated project cost of $16.83 million.
While Foundry is listed on plans as the owner and developer of “Baymeadows Way Industrial,” it has not closed on a purchase of the property.
Plans show Building 100 at 199,086 square feet and an estimated project cost of $8.04 million and Building 200 at 204,850 square feet at an estimated $8.79 million.
C4 Architecture LLC of Orlando is shown as the architect and the mechanical and plumbing engineer. Langan Engineering of Jacksonville is the civil engineer. The city received civil engineering plans in December.
Foundry Commercial is a full-service commercial real estate company that works in the office, industrial, retail, multifamily, health care, religious and not-for-profit sectors.
In early 1998, AT&T sold the Transtech business to Cincinnati Bell Inc., which added the entity to its customer service division called Matrixx Marketing. Later that year, Cincinnati Bell spun off Matrixx and another division into a new public company called Convergys Corp. In 2018, Convergys Corp. was bought out by California-based Synnex Corp., which combined the business with its customer services subsidiary, Concentrix.
Concentrix had operated at the Baymeadows Way property, with ownership listed as Convergys Customer Management Support Inc. and Concentrix CVG Customer Management Support Inc., both in Cincinnati. The building now appears to be largely vacant.