The city and the St. Johns River Water Management District are reviewing construction plans for College Park, the former Town & Country Shopping Center in Arlington.
The center is at northeast University Boulevard and the Arlington Expressway. Built in 1953, it comprises about 200,000 square feet on 19 acres at 903 University Blvd.
Dollar General and Legacy Ministries are among the current tenants.
JWB Real Estate Capital President Alex Sifakis said by email Feb. 1 the group submitted civil plans for the development. Kimley Horn and Associates is the civil engineer.
The property is part of the Renew Arlington Community Redevelopment Area, which the city hopes to assist with rejuvenation. Sifakis is applying for grant assistance for fencing, landscaping and landscape buffers.
JWB Real Estate Capital previously filed plans with the city Sept. 8 that show it will add a shipping container food court and park, two apartment buildings, public open space and a potential Ellianos coffee shop.
“We are redoing the parking lot, bringing it up to the Arlington overlay standards, adding two residential pads and the pad for the shipping container food court,” Sifakis said in the Feb. 1 email.
Sifakis said JWB Real Estate hopes to start on the parking lot and facade work in five to six months after permits are issued.
After that, he said JWB Real Estate Capital will build the residential – about 80 units in two structures – and the shipping container food court.
Sifakis said previously his group looked at similar concepts to design the 17,733-square-foot shipping container food court and park.
Jacksonville-based JWB Real Estate Capital commissioned a mural called The Wall at College Park. Area artists have completed the “Arlington” artwork on the south end of the shopping center facing the expressway.
