The city is reviewing a permit for FLC Contracting LLC to build-out a former SunTrust Bank branch at 12929 Atlantic Blvd. for Jacksonville-based First Florida Credit Union.
The East Arlington office is a $372,700 project to remodel the 4,190-square-foot building on a 1.06-acre outparcel in front of Lowe’s.
SunTrust closed the branch in February 2019 and sold the property in May 2019 to Oviedo-based Hill/Gray Seven LLC, a retail development and brokerage company, for $1.4 million.
First Florida Credit Union paid $1.95 million for the site in January 2020.
The building was developed in 2005.
First Florida Credit Union operates 17 branches throughout the state, including seven in Northeast Florida.
The credit union started in 1950 as the Florida State Welfare Board Employees Credit Union and became Florida HRS Credit Union in 1972.
Its website says that over the next decade, changes and reorganizations within the state allowed more government employees access to the credit union, which became Government Employees Credit Union of Florida in 1982.
A bylaw amendment then expanded the field of membership to include all state and federal employees.
In 2003, Government Employees Credit Union expanded its field of membership to include all who lived or worked within the counties served in major metropolitan areas across the state and changed its name to First Florida Credit Union.
It then merged with Seaboard Credit Union, the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Credit Union, the State Employees Credit Union and, in 2016, Florida Baptist Credit Union.
First Florida now has more than 55,000 members and assets exceeding $1 billion.