Amazon.com’s 10th area facility is in review at AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center at a construction cost of $40.4 million.
The city is reviewing a permit application and plans for JAX9, a code name used by the Seattle-based online retailer.
Hillwood, the city’s master developer at Cecil Commerce Center, is the owner of the project, shown as a 278,237-square-foot industrial building at 13450 Waterworks St.
The Conlan Co. is the contractor for the single-story warehouse building with an office area and break room.
Plans show 261,321 square feet of warehouse space and 16,916 square feet of office space.
The permit and plans do not say what type of Amazon center it is. The company operates large fulfillment centers, generally about 1 million square feet, as well as sortation and delivery centers that are smaller.
Amazon already operates a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center at AllianceFlorida.
Dallas-based Hillwood has been working on the project on Parcel F at the West Jacksonville business park.
Hillwood filed civil engineering plans with the city Sept. 28 for the distribution warehouse on 37.53 acres at southwest POW-MIA Memorial Parkway and Waterworks Street.
No company is identified as the tenant or buyer of the property, which the city owns.
The project comprises the building, parking, truck storage and infrastructure at the undeveloped site. Prosser Inc. is the civil engineer.
Hillwood told the city Sept. 28 that it continues to work with a prospect that wants to lease a 270,000-square-foot build-to-suit facility.
The unidentified prospect initially wanted a 500,000-square-foot center when discussions began in March, according to Hillwood’s second-quarter activity report to the city covering April 1-June 30.
As the city’s master developer at Cecil Commerce Center, Hillwood is required to file quarterly reports.
“Hillwood received and responded to an RFP from the prospect, after which Hillwood and the prospect exchanged multiple proposals, including a reduction in the building’s size to approximately 270,000 square feet,” Hillwood wrote.
“At the end of the reporting period, positive discussions with the prospect were ongoing.”
Hillwood told the city in the report that it released civil, environmental, geotech and topographic consultants to prepare due-diligence reports in support of the potential development. It also evaluated stormwater, wetland and title issues.
Hillwood’s first-quarter report, released in June, came after Hillwood filed civil engineering plans with the city in May to grade almost 63 acres for a 517,510-square-foot distribution warehouse on Parcel F.
In those plans, Hillwood did not identify a user or tenant for the building, which was shown to be built in two phases.
The property is next to the JinkoSolar solar-panel manufacturing plant.
It is the 10th identified Amazon facility in Northeast Florida.
On Oct. 13, the city issued a permit for build-out for Amazon’s DJX3, a 477,946-square-foot package delivery hub in Imeson International Industrial Park in North Jacksonville.
Amazon’s two area fulfillment centers are JAX2 at Pecan Park Road in Northwest Jacksonville and JAX3 in Cecil Commerce Center; the JAX5 Westside sortation center; and the AMXL HJX1 facility in Westside to handle heavy bulk freight.
The JAX7 fulfillment facility is under construction in Imeson Park.
Amazon operates last-mile delivery centers with similar designations. The Cabot Commerce Circle facility in North Jacksonville is DJX1 and the Blanding Boulevard site under development in West Jacksonville is DJX2.
Another, DJX6, is planned in St. Johns County.
