The city issued a permit Oct. 16 for construction of The Home Depot in Mandarin at the site where a Kmart store was removed in September.
Ordner Construction Co. Inc. of Duluth, Georgia, is the contractor for the $8 million project at 9600 San Jose Blvd.
The Home Depot, based in Atlanta, proposes to build a 132,975-square-foot home improvement store comprising a 106,367-square-foot retail space with a 25,074-square-foot garden center and other areas.
The site is 11.64 acres along San Jose Boulevard, west of the intersection with Old St. Augustine Road.
The Jacksonville City Council voted May 14 to rezone the site to allow The Home Depot to build a store and garden center.
The city issued a permit Sept. 6 for Ordner Construction as the general contractor for the Kmart demolition at a job cost of $400,000.
Jacksonville-based North Florida Waste Management & Demolition, the subcontractor, said Sept. 24 the 133,123-square-foot Kmart has been demolished and the site cleared.
Duval County Property Appraiser records show the Kmart building was developed in 1979.
Through Atlantic Mini-Storage of America Inc., Ash Properties paid almost $4.39 million for the property Dec. 1, 2015.
Discount retailer Kmart closed there in 2016 but continued to lease the property until parent company Sears Holdings Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in October 2018.
Through Onoudidnt Inc., Ash Properties is leasing the property to Home Depot U.S.A. The lease, with an initial term of 20 years, took effect Nov. 14, 2023.