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DIA to decide on $2.6M JEA HQ site offer
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The bid from Ryan Companies US for the site next to the Duval County Courthouse is $300,000 more than the appraised value of the property.
BY MIKE MENDENHALL STAFF WRITER
The Downtown Investment Authority will vote Wednesday on a $2.6 million offer from Ryan Companies US Inc. to purchase the city-owned property planned for the next JEA headquarters. A DIA request for proposals
with a 30-day deadline for other interested parties to bid on the vacant parcel at 325 W. Adams St. expired Tuesday. According to DIA Board Secretary Ron Moody, Jacksonvillebased Buzz Wagand & Associates Real Estate Appraisers & Advisors valued the Adams Street site at $2.3 million, putting the bid from
Ryan Companies US $300,000 above the appraisal price. The board voted 6-0 to publish the RFP and consider the Ryan Companies’ unsolicited offer at an April 12 special DIA board meeting. JEA selected Minneapolisbased Ryan Companies US in April to build a nine-story office tower
on the property near the Duval County Courthouse, passing over a proposed deal with Iguana Investments to put the new JEA headquarters in the Lot J development near TIAA Bank Field. Iguana Investments is the development company of Jack-
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SEE JEA, PAGE 2
THE MATHIS REPORT
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KAREN BRUNE MATHIS EDITOR
The owners of the property planned for a shopping center, grocery are seeking PUD changes. Work continues toward development of a GreenWise Market natural foods grocer at World Commerce Center in St. Johns County. GreenWise is Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets Inc.’s concept developed to compete in the natural foods category. It offers organic, specialty and traditional grocery items. The grocery is part of a proposed shopping center west of Interstate 95, south of International Golf Parkway and north of Florida 16. The property is owned by World Commerce Center LLP and Steinemann Development Company – Florida Inc. The owners are seeking a
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Publix Super Markets Inc. plans to open at least two GreenWise natural foods stores in St. Johns County. This rendering was included in plans for one at World Commerce Center at International Golf Parkway and Florida 16.
minor modification to the planned unit development on 16.6 acres along International Golf Parkway. They also are requesting a modification that would include a waiver to allow a grocery store and small restaurants within the shopping center parcel to serve
beer and wine for on-premise consumption within 1,000 feet of a church or school; to prohibit bars, lounges, nightclubs and dance halls in the parcel; to allow a wall sign on the side or rear of the store; and to include a master development plan for the parcel. A master development plan
shows a 25,147-square-foot grocery store, identified as a GreenWise, flanked by two 7,000-square-foot retail buildings. There also are six outparcels of 0.72 to 2.16 acres. The total square footage for the buildings on the parcel is 111,350 square feet.
As previously reported, Publix wants to anchor the Shoppes at World Commerce Center, according to documents filed with the St. Johns County Growth Management Department. Cantrell & Morgan Inc. of SEE MATHIS, PAGE 2
Development in works along Hodges Almost 50 acres at northwest Hodges and Butler boulevards could become one of the area’s next mixed-use developments. The site is across Hodges Boulevard from the Windsor Commons shopping center. The George H. Hodges Jr. Trust applied to the city to rezone the 48.53-acre site from one planned unit development to another. A land-use table shows 28.85 acres for multifamily and institutional development and 19.68 acres for commercial, retail, institutional and office use. The total number of multifamily units is 970. No developer is identified. More at JaxDailyRecord.com
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