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DEVELOPMENT
Pair of new stores in works for Town Center
JEA’S NEXT HQ Daily Record JACKSONVILLE
What put the West Adams Street site past the Jaguars, Northbank locations.
Sur La Table, Warby Parker seeking building permits for the space that was vacated by Williams-Sonoma.
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JEA’s board of directors selected Ryan Companies US Inc. to build a new campus at 325 W. Adams St. near the Duval County Courthouse and State Attorney’s Office.
BY KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
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ver the next 120 days, JEA will complete an agreement with Ryan Companies US Inc. to lease and build a new corporate headquarters in Downtown Jacksonville. JEA’s board of directors selected the Minneapolis-based development company Tuesday to build a new campus at 325 W. Adams St., near the Duval County Courthouse and State Attorney’s Office. The estimated $72.2 million development comprises a nine-story, 207,810-square-foot tower for offices and a customer service center and a detached 850-space parking garage.
A rendering of a new JEA HQ. The estimated $72.2 million development comprises a nine-story, 207,810-square-foot tower.
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The JEA headquarters site as seen from Julia and Adams streets.
Photo by Monty Zickuhr
Housewares store Sur La Table and fashion eyeglass retailer Warby Parker appear to be prospective tenants at St. Johns Town Center in the closed Williams-Sonoma space. Williams-Sonoma closed recently and its roughly 6,500-square-foot space at 4712 River City Drive, No. 109, is being prepared for two tenants. Sur La Table, a housewares company based in Seattle, will take 5,049 square feet at that address, according to a building permit application filed with the city. No contractor is listed for the $500,000 build-out. Similar to Williams-Sonoma, Sur La Table sells cookware, bakeware, dinnerware, glassware, kitchen tools, knives, small appliances, grilling accessories, décor and specialty foods, coffee and tea. The company opened in 1972 and has expanded to more than 120 stores in at least 32 states and the District of Columbia. It has seven locations in Florida. Sur La Table did not respond immediately to an email requesting comment. Warby Parker, which is the operating name for New Yorkbased JAND Inc., is shown as the user of 1,460 square feet of space at 4712 River City Drive, No. 107. The city is reviewing a permit application for a $300,000 buildout for JAND in the end space of SEE STORES, PAGE 11
ECONOMIC TRENDS
Optimistic forecast for region, U.S. Port helping boost area. PAGE 3 VOLUME 106, NO. 98 • TWO SECTIONS