Zion Jacksonville LLC applied to the city Oct. 24 for permit review to clear 138 acres at an estimated project cost of $20 million in North Jacksonville where it is laying the groundwork for an industrial park.
Infrastructure contractor Phillips and Jordan Inc., based in Knoxville, Tennessee, is shown as the agent for the project at 10145 Eastport Road.
The project is for Parcels 3A and 3B, called the first phase.
The project is for clearing, installation of site utilities, roadways and building pads to construct future buildings.
The site is east of Eastport Road south of its intersection with Faye Road.
InLight Real Estate Partners confirmed June 26 that it intends to buy almost 137 acres to start construction on four to seven industrial buildings on Parcels 3A and 3B, shown among two phases, totaling 1.84 million square feet of warehouse space.
New York City-based Zion Jacksonville LLC and civil engineer Prosser Prime AE have asked city utility JEA to determine the water flow connections along the proposed “Zion Parcel 3 Spine Road” for future parcel connections.
The road will connect to the property that InLight Real Estate Partners of Ponte Vedra Beach intends to develop.
A site plan shows the road will connect from Eastport Road and will run east to open up access to proposed Parcels 3A and 3B to the north and Parcels 4 and 5 to the south.
The Colliers commercial real estate firm is marketing the site as Eastport Logistics Park. A Colliers brochure says the park will start delivering buildings in the second quarter of 2025, meaning there will be space available then for tenant build-out.
Colliers executives Guy Preston, Seda Preston and Jack Heed are the landlord representatives for InLight.
The brochure says building sizes are available from 131,040 to 310,960 square feet. Flexible suite sizes start at 25,000 square feet.
There also is an option for a build-to-suit up to 687,700 square feet of space on the land along a CSX rail line.
The city approved civil engineering plans June 13 for a first phase of four buildings and is reviewing civil plans for mass grading of the land,.
InLight Real Estate Partners submitted those plans to the city May 3 for four warehouse distribution buildings comprising 884,000 at the site in one phase.
The other phase would comprise three buildings or possibly the large build-to-suit.
The spine road also appears to connect at Eastport Road where DHL Supply Chain is developing a logistics center on the west side.
Zion Jacksonville LLC It sold almost 50 acres Nov. 28 on the opposite side of Eastport Road to a company affiliated with DHL Supply Chain to develop an almost 400,000-square-foot, $64 million logistics and distribution center.
Warehouse use topping 8 million square feet
Zion Jacksonville LLC owns more than 700 acres in North Jacksonville.
It is positioning its land as a master development of potentially more than 8 million square feet of warehouse use.
It has owned at least 900 acres and has been selling and deeding parcels, especially in the past year.
Property records show that Zion bought the land in 1986.
Industry experts have said that after family leader Abraham Zion died eight years ago, the Zion family has been organizing in a long-term move to position the property to sell the land.