In a combination of a ceremonial opening and an announcement of a new tenant, the Jacksonville Jaguars held a ribbon-cutting March 25 for their new office building in the Sports and Entertainment District in Downtown Jacksonville.
Mark Lamping, Jaguars president, announced that the law firm of Foley & Lardner had leased the fifth floor of the six-story One Tower Place office building across East Bay Street from EverBank Stadium.
Combined with the Jaguars’ team offices and leases for Timucuan Asset Management Inc. on the sixth-floor and First Coast YMCA wellness center on the ground floor, the building is 83% full.
The Jaguars moved their offices into the building in February. Team spokesperson Lyndsay Rossman said Foley & Lardner was expected to complete its move to the new building from 1 Independent Square by the end of 2026.
Mark Lamping, Jaguars president, said the move would bring 44 attorneys and about 60 staff to One Tower Court.
Noting that other Downtown employers are relocating or threatening to move out, Lamping said Foley & Lardner’s “commitment to Downtown is really something to celebrate.”
He challenged other Downtown property owners to invest in their properties to attract and retain tenants.
“It’s incumbent on the landlords to make it easy for companies to stay Downtown,” he said.
Iguana Investments, the real estate development company of Jaguars owner Shad Khan and his family, owns the office building. Development and design are led by Khan’s daughter, Shanna Khan, founder and CEO of Shanna Collective.
In the Jaguars’ offices, features of One Tower Court include a sales center, a social media command center and a “social stairway” connecting second- and third-floor collaborative and dining areas for employees.
Those areas include a terrace that overlooks the neighboring Four Seasons Hotel and Residences and marina support building, and a lunch service counter from which team employees eat for free.
Lamping said 200 Jaguars employees were in the building, and the team’s space can support 35% more capacity if needed.
Noting that staffs of NFL teams generally come to their jobs early and stay late, he said new glass-walled offices were an improvement on the old closed-in space in the stadium.
“You could go weeks without seeing the sun if you worked for the Jaguars,” he said of the old offices.
Attendees at the ceremonial opening included Jacksonville City Council President Kevin Carrico and members Ken Amaro, Joe Carlucci, Chris Miller, Tyrona Clark-Murray and Jimmy Peluso.
Mayor Donna Deegan said the tower joins other Downtown projects that are coming online or in development, including Riverfront Plaza and RiversEdge parks, and the proposed University of Florida graduate campus in LaVilla.
“Downtown Jacksonville is reaching its ignition point,” she said.
Lamping said completion of the Four Seasons is expected in 2027. The marina support building, which will include the second location of St. Augustine’s Asado Life restaurant, is expected to be completed in summer 2026.
The city issued a permit in May 2024 for PCL Construction LLC of Orlando to build One Tower Court at a cost of almost $39.2 million. The office building was designed with 132,493 square feet of enclosed space and 10,185 square feet of unenclosed space.