New Jersey-based Sudler Companies is working on a concept for the almost 35 acres it bought Dec. 23, 2024, in Westlake Industrial Park in West Jacksonville.
The real estate developer has been exploring construction of a 345,000-square-foot distribution/manufacturing warehouse that could be expanded to 600,000 square feet in a second phase.
“We are currently reviewing several different options for site plans and due diligence at the Westlake site,” said company Principal Daniel Sudler in an email Jan. 6.
City utility JEA issued a service available determination letter Nov. 7 to Sudler Companies, based in Chatham, New Jersey, for the project, which is proposed on the site along Directors Road. The letter details connection points.
“The plan submitted to the utility company was simply to understand the site’s capacity as part of DD and not our layout as of now. Right now we have no immediate plan to break ground,” Sudler said.
Sudler said he could share a concept when it is finalized.
A deed recorded Dec. 30 with the Duval County Clerk of Court shows that Sudjax LLC paid almost $9.96 million for the 34.9-acre property Dec. 23.
It bought the land from Westlake Land LLC, part of Atlanta-based Pattillo Industrial Real Estate, which acquired the site in 2016.
The site is west of Interstate 295 south of Pritchard Road. The vacant land is across Directors Road from the BJ’s Wholesale Club distribution center.
A site plan filed with the Nov. 4 JEA application shows a first phase of 345,000 square feet comprising 323,180 square feet of warehouse space, 19,780 square feet for a main office and 2,040 square feet for an operations office.
The plan shows two expansion spaces of 127,500 square feet on either side of the warehouse – one for a dry warehouse and one for a cold warehouse.
There are 49 dock doors in the first phase and a total of 91 for both phases.
Sudlerco.com says the company, which began in 1907 as a general contracting firm, offers “the full spectrum of vertically integrated real estate development services to meet all real estate needs from vision to reality.”
The company says it is under the fourth generation of Sudler family management.
It says it provides land acquisition and investment; real estate development; general contracting and construction management; property management; and legal expertise.
It says its portfolio spans industrial and commercial developments.
That portfolio includes 14 properties in New Jersey as well as in South Carolina and Florida.
Sudler owns Southern Oaks Business Park in Plant City, where Tesla and food distributor Sysco lease space.
The company also added a Tesla regional parts distribution center in South Carolina.