The city issued a permit July 11 for Skyline Construction Inc. to build-out space for Heartland Dental Downtown at a project cost of $750,000.
Downtown Dental Associates, through Heartland Dental, signed a lease in the fall to open in the historic Dyal-Upchurch Building at 6 E. Bay St., No. 101.
The permit is for 3,520 square feet of space on the first floor where a production studio operated.
Real estate representative Clint Murphy said in October it will be the relocation of Heartland-affiliated Downtown Dental Associates from 223 W. Adams St. in the city’s Ed Ball Building.
The lease with the city describes that office as 3,072 rentable square feet on the first floor of the Ed Ball Building.
Colliers Senior Director Matthew Clark and associates Olivia Steinemann and Sam Middlekauff represent the Dyal-Upchurch landlord, Ten H Investments LLC, led by Jack Hanania and Joe Hassan.
Murphy, president of Murphy Land and Retail Services Inc., represents Heartland Dental LLC as the tenant.
He said in October the practice will lease 3,856 square feet of space.
Downtown Dental Associates said Oct. 5 it was relocating for more space.
Murphy said Downtown Dental Associates has been operating Downtown since the 1960s.
He said the 10-year lease, with options, was executed Sept. 30 for the Dyal-Upchurch Building.
Facing the building, the space is to left of the main entrance.
Steinemann said in October that Heartland will be up and running by the end of the third quarter of 2023.
She said the dental practice will occupy the space previously used by On Ideas as a production studio.
The six-story, 48,000-square-foot building was developed in 1901. Ten-H Investments paid $2.8 million for it in December 2017.
It is at Bay and Main streets at the foot of the Main Street Bridge.
Murphy called it “an exceptional location.”
Heartland Dental acquires and supports practices that retail their names and clinical independence.
Heartland.com says the practice, founded in 1997 in Effingham, Illinois, is a network of more than 1,650 supported offices in 38 states.
Murphy said each Heartland Dental in the U.S. has a local name. In addition to its affiliated stores, it is developing new stores, typically on an outparcel in a grocery-anchored center.
Murphy said several more are opening soon in Northeast Florida.