The city is reviewing a site-work permit for The Anderson-DuBose Co.’s proposed $60 million cold and dry foods storage facility in Westlake Industrial Park in Northwest Jacksonville.
England-Thims & Miller Inc. is the civil engineer for the project, which is designed as a 147,577-square-foot warehouse with office space on 33.22 acres at 4125 Cisco Drive W.
There is a separate 9,088-square-foot building
The project is an industrial development site permit for horizontal and utility/grading work.
City civil plan review previously began for the project, which is larger than the 120,000-square-foot center stated in incentives legislation for the project then known as Project Bobcat.
A Planned Unit Development verification plan shows the two buildings totaling 156,665 square feet of industrial cold storage and associated office and trailer maintenance facility development.
The largest building is 147,577 square feet comprising 138,505 square feet of industrial space and a two-story, 9,072-square-foot office area.
The smaller building of 9,088 square feet is the trailer maintenance and service station facility.
The project plans are prepared for VTRE Development LLC of Scottsdale, Arizona. The company is affiliated with Van Tuyl Companies, a privately owned family office that also owns VanTrust Real Estate.
The permit application lists JI Westlake 160 LLC, led by leaders of VanTrust, as the property owner.
VanTrust is active in office and industrial commercial development in Jacksonville.
Norfolk Southern owns the property through Westlake Land Management Inc. and has been selling land to developers.
Westlake Industrial Park is north of Interstate 10 and west of I-295 in West Jacksonville.
Council voted March 12 in favor of Resolution 2024-0156 providing a $1.5 million Recapture Enhanced Value Grant to Ohio-based Anderson-DuBose.
According to a summary document filed with the legislation, Anderson-DuBose plans a 120,000-square-foot facility on about 40 acres in the industrial park. 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.
The summary states a completion date of December 2026 for the project.
Anderson-Dubose’s website says the company began in 1991 when it bought a McDonald’s distribution center in Cleveland and added a second in 2007 in Pittsburgh.
The company consolidated its Cleveland and Pittsburgh facilities in 2012 and bought a third McDonald’s distribution center in Rochester, New York, in 2013.