Two days after the city issued a permit for the $37 million cold and dry foods storage warehouse and office facility for The Anderson-DuBose Co., the city granted one for a $2 million trailer maintenance and service station.
It also issued permits for two accessory structures that total $113,390.
The total $39.11 million project is under development at 4125 Cisco Drive W. in Westlake Industrial Park in Northwest Jacksonville.
The city issued the permit for the larger project Dec. 2 and the smaller one Dec. 4. Evans General Contractors LLC is the contractor for both.
The Anderson-DuBose Co. was labeled Project Bobcat as it won city incentives in March.
The city reviewed permits for construction of the 153,136-square-foot and 9,502-square-foot buildings on 33 acres at a combined $39 million.
Westlake Industrial Park is north of Interstate 10 and west of I-295.
In April, JAXUSA Partnership, the economic development division of JAX Chamber, made it official that Anderson-DuBose plans to open the $60 million facility.
The city approved site work in June and July for horizontal development and utilities and grading.
The permit application lists JI Westlake 160 LLC, led by leaders of VanTrust Real Estate, as the property owner.
Jacksonville City Council voted to provide a $1.5 million Recapture Enhanced Value Grant to Ohio-based Anderson-DuBose for a 120,000-square-foot facility. The subsequent plans indicated a larger project.
The company says it will create at least 85 jobs but expects 109 by year-end 2028. The annual payroll is anticipated at more than $5.5 million.
That’s an average of about $50,500 per job.
The summary states a completion date of December 2026 for the project.
Anderson-DuBose, led by founder and CEO Warren Anderson, began in 1991 when it bought a McDonald’s distribution center in Cleveland, according to its website.
The company consolidated its Cleveland and Pittsburgh facilities into a warehouse in Lordstown, Ohio, in 2012 and bought a McDonald’s distribution center in Rochester, New York, in 2013.
The company is Ohio’s largest minority-owned business.
JAXUSA announced the food service distributor will serve more than 300 restaurants in the Southeast from the Jacksonville center.
Anderson-DuBose distributes food and paper items to McDonald’s and Chipotle Mexican Grill locations.
The release said the company is buying 33 acres of Norfolk Southern-owned property to develop a 160,000-square-foot, rail-served ambient and cold-storage distribution facility.
Westlake Industrial Park is owned by Norfolk Southern, which sells the land to developers, and is served exclusively by a Norfolk Southern mainline.
The company will generate more than 160 carloads of freight for Norfolk Southern annually, the release said.