A Brooks Rehabilitation campus focusing on senior care could be coming to Middleburg.
Clay County is reviewing site plans for what could become a 307,760-square-foot campus on 43.5 acres at Old Jennings Road and First Coast Expressway.
A map of the campus showing the development was included as part of Brooks' plans to grade the site. Brooks included the master site plan for the project, along with a description of the proposed future use as a campus, along with the grading plans.
According to a Sept. 22 statement from Brooks, the master site plan included with its application for the mass grading is conceptual and that no building permit applications have been submitted for the project.
According to the Brooks master site plan sent to the county, 18 buildings planned at the campus. They include:
• A 138,000-square-foot, three-story facility offering assisted living and skilled nursing services.
• Four memory care buildings, totaling 32,000 square feet.
• Six medical office buildings, totaling 44,300 square feet.
• Six nonmedical office buildings, totaling 44,300 square feet.
• A 48,500-square-foot, two-story hotel designed for visiting families.
Jacksonville-based England-Thims & Miller is the civil engineer. According to the Clay County property appraiser website, Brooks Health System owns the property, purchased in 2015 through Genesis Health Inc. for $5.1 million.
The undeveloped site, which is about a half-mile north of Ascension St. Vincent’s Clay County, requires grading before construction can begin.
Brooks operates three inpatient hospitals in Florida — Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital-University Campus and Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital-Bartram Campus in Jacksonville and Halifax Health | Brooks Rehabilitation Center for Inpatient Rehabilitation in Daytona Beach.
Brooks plans to expand in 2026 with a new facility at Mayo Clinic’s Arizona campus. The system also runs more than 70 outpatient locations in Florida, including two in Clay County.
Founded by Dr. J. Brooks Brown, who opened Memorial Hospital in 1969 to address a shortage of beds in Jacksonville, Brooks opened its first independent, freestanding rehabilitation hospital in 1994.
The Clay County Development Review Committee is scheduled to discuss the project Sept. 25.
This story has been updated with a Brooks saying that the plans are campus conceptual and to clarify the source of those plans.