Less than two weeks after buying the final parcel to create the Airport Commerce Center industrial park, The Suddath Cos. is starting toward road and utility site work at the North Jacksonville property.
Evans General Contractors LLC of Jacksonville is the contractor for the estimated $15 million project, according to a permit created in the processing system March 30.
Through Airport Commerce Center LLC, Suddath wants to start horizontal development with construction of a spine road and utilities for future warehouse construction. The address is 14710 Pecan Park Road.
Suddath, a Jacksonville-based logistics company, said March 19 it closed March 18 on the Phase 3 land purchase at Airport Commerce Center, meaning it can start to develop a proposed 2.98 million-square-foot industrial park along Pecan Park Road near Jacksonville International Airport.
Since August 2025, a Suddath subsidiary has paid more than $20 million for 312 acres to create Airport Commerce Center. The company said 200.7 acres are upland, meaning they are above the wetland and can be developed.
The property is west of Interstate 95 and Pecan Park Road, south of Gold Star Family Parkway and north of the airport. It is west of the Jacksonville Port Authority North Jacksonville marine terminals.
Suddath said previously the park will start with a distribution center for the company’s NXTPoint Logistics subsidiary, a distribution, warehouse and fulfillment company.
Evan Walton, Suddath senior vice president of real estate and construction, said March 19 that NXTPoint Logistics would establish its headquarters in a 566,000-square-foot building on the Phase 2 property. A 250,000-square-foot building also is proposed in Phase 2 for use by NXTPoint or another tenant.
Phase 1A comprises mass grading, site clearing, infrastructure and utilities.
Phase 1B can fit up to 1.1 million square feet among one or several buildings, depending on demand.
Phase 3 is a 1,076,320-square-foot building. No tenant has been identified.
The city issued four permits Dec. 16 for horizontal development to start work toward the three-phase development. The permits were for site clearing, timber harvest and mass grading.
Jacksonville-based England-Thims & Miller Inc. is the civil engineer.
Established in 1919 in Jacksonville, Suddath Cos. said it has grown into a $900 million global transportation, relocation management and logistics company, serving 180 countries with 2,000 employees worldwide.
“As a 106-year-old, Jacksonville-based company, we’re proud to continue investing in our hometown and the airport corridor. We will use the development of our own building for our NXTPoint Logistics subsidiary as a springboard for the development of the overall industrial park,” Chairman Steven Suddath said in an Aug. 22 news release.