The city issued a permit June 7 for EverBank to build-out its new branch at 4211 San Juan Ave. in Ortega at project cost of $571,951 as it prepares to close and move its Riverside Avenue office in the Brooklyn area of Downtown.
Crabtree Construction Co. of Jacksonville is the contractor for the project to renovate the almost 2,800-square-foot building, with a 728-square-foot covered drive-thru, on about a half-acre at San Juan Avenue and Herschel Street.
Gensler is the architect.
EverBank will be the third bank that has operated at the structure.
It was first used by Florida Bank and then IberiaBank, which ResidentNews.net reported was closed in 2018.
San Juan Corner LLC, led by John and Margaret Williams, owns the property. They bought it in 2019 for $607,000 from IberiaBank.
Jacksonville-based EverBank filed an application March 28 with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the regulatory agency for nationally chartered banks, to move the Riverside Avenue branch.
It said plans to close that office and transfer that location’s business to the new one at 4211 San Juan Ave.
EverBank has operated the branch at its former headquarters building at 501 Riverside Ave. since 2007.
The new branch will be known as the Ortega Financial Center. It is about a half-mile west of the Ortega Bridge.
The bank does not have a branch at its Downtown headquarters building at 301 W. Bay St. and the Riverside office has served as its main branch.
EverBank serves most of its customers online and has few branch offices.
According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. database, EverBank has two other full-service Jacksonville offices: an Oceanway Branch at 104 New Berlin Road and a San Jose Branch at 10400 San Jose Blvd.
The bank has additional branches in Boca Raton, Fort Lauderdale, Coral Cables, Naples, Fort Myers and Clearwater.