A 10.67-acre site owned by Home Depot USA Inc. Inc. is for sale, and RaceTrac Petroleum Inc. appears to want the corner of it.
A conceptual site plan for the property at Interstate 95 and University Boulevard West shows the RaceTrac location, labeled as “Gas Convenience,” along with three outparcels for two restaurants and a hotel.
Atlanta-based RaceTrac wants to develop a gas station and convenience store on 1.77 acres at the site at 5221 University Blvd. W. at Richard Street, according to a permit application filed with the St. Johns River Water Management District. The conceptual plan shows the gas station site as 1.76 acres.
The 5,411-square-foot store would have 10 fueling pumps.
RaceTrac Petroleum already operates nearby at 5109 University Blvd. W. The almost 4,000-square-foot gas station and convenience store, which was developed in 2004, occupies 1.4 acres.
RaceTrac Communications Manager Liz McIntyre said Tuesday the company is exploring additional growth in the Jacksonville area, “and this site is included in that exploration process.”
“Details are still to be determined,” she said.
The two restaurant sites at the Home Depot address are shown as a 7,010-square-foot building on 2.32 acres and an 11,088-square-foot structure on 2.71 acres.
The 1.51-acre hotel site is behind the RaceTrac.
Property highlights on the marketing flyer said the location is “ideal for Fast Food, Gas Station, Hotel, Car Wash.”
Murphy Land and Retail Services Inc. of Jacksonville and Corporate Property Dispositions of Atlanta are the contacts on the plan.
The property is bounded by I-95, University Boulevard, Richard Street and a proposed retention pond.
The Water Management District application shows the existing pavement, sidewalks, drives and building foundations will be demolished and new pavement, sidewalks, drives and a building will be added. Connelly & Wicker Inc. is the civil engineer.
Outparcel for-sale signs are posted on the property by Clint Murphy with Murphy Land and Retail Services.
Atlanta-based Home Depot bought the property in 2007.
Development plans surfaced in June 2014 when Home Depot agent GreenbergFarrow of Atlanta applied to the city for a mobility fee calculation certificate.
Those plans showed a 137,000-square-foot Home Depot store and garden area on the 10.67 acres.
The expedited mobility fee calculation certificate was issued June 13. No mobility fee was calculated for the project because it received credit for previous uses on the property.
A spokeswoman said the company had no plans to develop the site. She said that although the company owns the land and researched the possibility of opening a store there, it had no plans to do so.
The Florida Times-Union reported in February 2014 in response to a reader question that Home Depot demolished a Red Carpet Inn, Super 8, International House of Pancakes, a shuttered adult cabaret and a garage that were on the property.
Home Depot spokesman Matt Harrigan said Tuesday the land is for sale but could not discuss specifics.
Site plans are in review for the 276-unit Bainbridge Jacksonville apartments at northwest Butler and Kernan boulevards near the University of North Florida.
Plans show that the Bainbridge Companies LLC will develop the project on 17.3 acres. The community comprises 10 residential buildings, six garages, a clubhouse and pool and a maintenance building.
Zev Cohen & Associates Inc. of Ormond Beach is the civil engineer.
Plans were prepared for Bainbridge Communities Acquisitions III LLC, a subsidiary of Wellington-based The Bainbridge Companies.
The apartments comprise 102 one-bedroom, 138 two-bedroom and 36 three-bedroom units.
The Bainbridge Companies website says it manages about 25,000 apartment homes in more than 70 communities in Florida, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Virginia and Washington, D.C. This would be the company’s first community in Northeast Florida.
Tyler Nilsson, a director of ARA, A Newmark Company, said his company is the broker representing Bainbridge.
He said Bainbridge expects to break ground at the end of the summer after closing on the land purchase.
