Pattillo Industrial Real Estate is exploring development of an industrial building in Wildlight in Nassau County for an unidentified tenant.
Jacksonville utility JEA, which serves that area, is reviewing a service determination request for a 400,000-square-foot building called Project Wildworks 1.
The site is within Atlanta-based Pattillo’s Wildlight Commerce Park in Yulee.
Pattillo Vice President of Development Peter Anderson said March 6 the request was made on behalf of a confidential prospect.
“That prospect is a user/occupant for whom we would develop a building,” Anderson said.
Wildlight Commerce Park is designed along Florida A1A. It is 1.5 miles east of Interstate 95.
”Wildlight Commerce Park is receiving good interest from prospective occupants and we are evaluating the feasibility of constructing speculative space. No vertical construction has yet occurred,” Anderson said.
Construction has not started on any buildings. “We hope to before summer begins,” Anderson said.
Spec buildings are designed to be available for tenants who need space quickly.
A Wildlight brochure shows two stages to the 165-acre industrial park, which is at Florida A1A and Wildworks Avenue.
• Stage 1 shows six buildings from 27,500 to 140,000 square feet.
• Stage 2 shows six buildings from 55,000 to 500,000 square feet.
The brochure says there are building units and build-to-suit sites.
It says there are sites available from 5 to 90 acres for lease or purchase.
Multitenant space will be available.
Wildlight is in Yulee along Florida 200/A1A on land mostly owned by timber and real estate investment firm Rayonier, through Wildlight LLC.
Subsidiary Raydient Places + Properties is the master developer of Wildlight, designed for 11 million square feet of commercial space, 24,000 residential units, 1,100 acres of parks and more than 50 miles of trails.
Wildlight describes itself as “Florida Lowcountry.”
Groundbreaking took place in 2016.
Pattillo Industrial Real Estate announced in November 2022 that it would develop the 1.5 million-square-foot industrial “environmentally friendly” Wildlight Commerce Park over 10 years as one part of the economic growth component of Wildlight’s master plan.
The Class A park will include 12 buildings surrounded by a wetland preserve to accommodate light manufacturing, logistics, offices, laboratories and warehousing from 5,000 to 500,000 square feet.
“As Wildlight continues to advance their vision for a new kind of community with focus on progressive sustainable practices, PIRE is thrilled to have been chosen to work with them on the development of an environmentally friendly Class A industrial park to serve and supplement the community and county,” said Josh Harrison, CEO of Pattillo Industrial Real Estate, in a November 2022 news release.
Wildlight Vice President Wes Hinton said then that Pattillo Industrial Real Estate has proven itself “the type of high quality, strategic partner needed to bring this project to life.”
“We are looking forward to this park advancing one of the core goals of Wildlight, which is a positive economic impact and job growth for the residents of Nassau County.”
The release said Wildlight Commerce Park will be built as one part of the economic growth component of Wildlight’s master plan.
The industrial park is an expansion within the initial phase of Wildlight that consists of 2,900 acres, a mix of residential homesites, multifamily apartments, a town center, schools, and health and wellness facilities.
Wildlight Commerce Park consists of several large parcels with roadways and trails connecting it to adjacent roads.
Jacksonville-based England-Thims & Miller Inc. is the civil engineer.
About half of the 2,900-acre community is devoted to green space, including parks and nature trails.