Hillwood expects to complete the Amazon.com sortation center at AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center during the fourth quarter of 2021.
Dallas-based Hillwood also continues talking with a developer that is interested in building a retail facility.
Hillwood included the information in its first-quarter report to the city about its activities at Cecil Commerce Center.
As the city’s master developer at the Westside business park, Hillwood is required to report quarterly activity. The first-quarter covers Jan. 1-March 30, 2021.
For Amazon.com, Hillwood said it executed a long-term lease in January for the Seattle-based e-commerce retailer. Hillwood is building a 280,000-square-foot center on Parcel F.
Hillwood said that by the end of the first quarter, the slab on grade was completed, half of the tilt wall panels were up and vertical structural steel was 20% complete.
It said that installation of site utilities had begun and that stormwater and sewer pipe and structures were arriving.
Mass grading was nearing completion.
Hillwood is the owner of the 278,237-square-foot center in development at 13450 Waterworks St. on Parcel F at southwest POW-MIA Memorial Parkway and Waterworks Street.
Amazon.com says sortation centers are “midmile” delivery centers in which the company sorts customer orders by ZIP codes before handing off to delivery partners for final delivery.
Amazon already operates a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center in AllianceFlorida at Cecil Commerce Center.
For Parcel Q, the retail prospect requested permission in March for its engineers to meet with the city Planning Department about utility locations and entitlement issues.
Hillwood began discussing the site with the prospect in the fourth quarter of 2020 to buy part of Parcel Q, at southwest Normandy Boulevard and POW-MIA Memorial Parkway, to develop a retail facility.
The prospect continued site due diligence during the first quarter.
Hillwood also told the city that during the first quarter it:
• Continued in discussions that started in the second quarter of 2020 with a prospect interested in leasing about 200,000 square feet of industrial space. No substantive progress took place during the first quarter as the prospect continued to refine its facility requirements.
• Received and responded to an initial inquiry from a prospect interested in leasing about 250,000 square feet of warehouse space.
Hillwood won a competitive bid in 2009 to become the master developer of the 4,474-acre Cecil Commerce Center, which is a portion of the former Naval Air Station Cecil Field owned by the city.