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New Crane Island community will feature Southern Living ‘Idea House’
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Nassau County development will feature 113 high-end single-family lots on 185 acres.
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BY JAY SCHLICHTER ASSOCIATE EDITOR
The former president of Amelia Island Company and an international businessman formed a partnership to develop Crane Island, a master-planned community with 113 high-end single-family lots on 185 acres between the Intracoastal Waterway and Fernandina Beach Municipal Airport. Jack Healan Jr., well known in Nassau County for his longtime involvement in developing Amelia Island Plantation, partnered in 2012 with Saad Wallan, the founder and chairman of the Wallan Group, based in Saudi Arabia. They purchased the property for Crane Island in 2014 for $9.9 million. On Nov. 16, representatives from the companies that are part of the project met at the site to celebrate the community selected for Southern Living’s “2019 Idea House.” Each year, the publication chooses a location in the Southeast for construction and decoration of a model home to showcase designs. This house will be 4,540 square feet, with four bedrooms and four bathrooms. The magazine will feature the home in its August 2019 edition, meaning the chosen homebuilder, Jacksonville-based Riverside Homes, needs to start it immediately to complete it by May. Chris Wood and Matt Roberts, founders of Riverside Homes, said SEE CRANE ISLAND, PAGE 3
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Nocatee Park Place One building in city review VanTrust will develop the business park with space for four additional buildings.
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This lot at Crane Island was selected for the Southern Living “2019 Idea House.” Jacksonville homebuilder Riverside Homes will construct the house.
Park Place One, the VanTrust Real Estate LLC office project in Nocatee, is in city permitting review. Brasfield & Gorrie LLC is the contractor for the four-story, almost 125,000-square-foot building on 10.51 acres at a project cost of almost $9.7 million. VanTrust estimates an investment of more than $30 million in the first building. The property owner is VTC Jacksonville Office Park Development LLC of Kansas City, Missouri, where VanTrust is based. England, Thims & Miller Inc. is the civil engineer. The overall master site plan shows Park Place One and four more future buildings along Nocatee Parkway. The 60-acre business park can accommodate 675,000 square feet of office space. VanTrust Real Estate Executive Vice President John Carey said Monday that construction SEE MATHIS, PAGE 3
TEDxFSCJWomen discussion TEDxFSCJWomen will present “Showing up,” a TEDWomen2018 simulcast and panel discussion 3:30 to 7 p.m. Dec. 6. at the FSCJ Downtown Campus. Melissa Ross, right, host of WJCT’s First Coast Connect, will moderate the 6 p.m. panel discussion, “Speak out!” on issues of fear, sexual violence and survival. The event is free, but registration is required. Visit tedxfscjwomen2018.eventbrite.com for more information and to register.
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