Mayo Clinic in Florida is preparing to clear 39.5 acres toward the start of developing its new North Campus, next to its existing center in Southside, at an estimated project cost of $4.67 million.
J.B. Coxwell Contracting Inc. of Jacksonville is the contractor for what is called Mayo Clinic North Campus Phase 1. Prosser Prime AE Inc. is the civil engineer.
The city is reviewing a building-permit application for the 39.5-acre clearing.
Site plans show 34 acres as the first phase of the new 209.36-acre campus.
Mayo Clinic is at 4500 San Pablo Road S. at northwest Butler Boulevard and San Pablo Road.
The first phase is north of WM Davis Parkway, which connects with San Pablo Road, and includes a roadway into the site.
Mayo Clinic Jacksonville is listed as the owner.
Mayo Clinic’s incorporation of its almost 210-acre North Campus property boosts its 39-year-old San Pablo Road medical center to 579.21 acres.
The city rezoned the property as part of the Mayo Clinic Development of Regional Impact.
Mayo Clinic consolidated all previous Planned Unit Development ordinances on the combined campus property.
Mayo Clinic opened Oct. 6, 1986, in Jacksonville.
At the Phase VI build-out by November 2045, the campus would comprise 7.5 million square feet of outpatient, research and clinical lab, education, hospital, housing and support facilities and hotel rooms.
A written description dated Feb. 5, 2024, filed with the rezoning application said Mayo Clinic Jacksonville had been master-planned for incremental development providing patient care, education, research and related medical services since 1985.
The description says the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville PUD contains about 392 acres on the west side of San Pablo Road between Butler Boulevard and W.M. Davis Parkway.
The rezoning “seeks to expand the Mayo campus to include approximately 210 acres north of W.M. Davis Parkway.”
The additional land is northwest of the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Development of Regional Impact.
That expands its 392-acre medical center property to 602 acres.
However, the numbers became more specific.
Spokesperson Kevin Punsky said previously the numbers – 210 acres and 392 acres – were “relative.”
The 579.21 acres comprise the surveyed area. Also the 210 acres include a section of jurisdictional wetland that was subtracted from the PUD because it is out of scope for construction.
In any event, it is a development plan that adds decades to Mayo Clinic in Florida’s ability to expand.
The property land uses for the additional acreage are designated as medical, related residential and hotel.
The Davis family, founders of the Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. supermarket chain, conveyed about 400 acres for the original campus that Mayo opened in 1986.
Duval County property records show that an entity of the Davis family conveyed the additional 210 acres to Mayo Clinic Jacksonville on Oct. 25, 2022.
The Jacksonville clinic was Mayo’s first facility opened outside of its home base in Rochester, Minnesota. It opened an Arizona campus in 1987.
The story is that Davis family patriarch J.E. Davis, considered one of Jacksonville’s most powerful business leaders, was so pleased by the care he received at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota that he led the recruitment drive to bring Mayo to Jacksonville.
That has led to a larger campus.
“Mayo Clinic in Florida plans to strategically grow across our 602 acres over several decades, spurring significant economic development and creating thousands of new jobs in the medical sector,” Punsky said in a previous statement.
WM Davis Parkway is named for W.M. Davis, the father of J.E. Davis and considered the founding father of Winn-Dixie.
Mayo Clinic in Florida says that since it opened in Jacksonville, it has grown from a single five-story building to three main patient care buildings, a hospital, two research buildings and a collection of free-standing clinical care facilities, administrative buildings and support centers.
Mayo Clinic in Florida says it provides diagnosis, medical treatment, surgery and care for more than 168,000 patients annually in 40 specialty areas.
It says that since 2016, it has invested more than $1 billion in major construction projects, more than doubling its space by 2026 with new facilities for patient care, biomedical research, education and technology.
Mayo Clinic will add more than 600,000 square feet of space for medical destinations, patient care, biomedical research and technology by 2025.