An Ohio-based company is on track to receive city incentives to build and operate a $60 million cold and dry foods storage facility in Northwest Jacksonville.
City Council voted March 12 in favor of legislation providing a $1.5 million Recapture Enhanced Value Grant to The Anderson-DuBose Co., which plans the facility in Westlake Industrial Park. Westlake is north of Interstate 10 and west of I-295.
The legislation, resolution 2024-0156, will be sent to Council committees after being advanced on a vote in which only Council member Rory Diamond was opposed.
The item was on the agenda for public comment, but none were made. Council advanced the resolution without comment.
The Anderson-DuBose Co., which was called Project Bobcat in an early incentives proposal, is a minority-owned distributor headquartered near Youngstown in eastern Ohio.
According to a summary document, it plans a 120,000-square-foot facility on about 40 acres in the industrial park. The company plans to employ a staff of 109 with an annual payroll of $5.5 million exclusive of benefits.
The summary includes 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 those facilities in 2013 at its location in Lordstown, northwest of Youngstown. That same year, it bought a third McDonald’s distribution center in Rochester, New York.