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Aging True Community Senior Services broke ground March 18 on a $6.5 million meal preparation center in Jacksonville’s Spring Park neighborhood.
The 10,000-square-foot facility will allow the nonprofit to produce five times more meals for seniors in Duval and Clay counties in a centralized location, Aging True said in an email.
The 1.73-acre site is at 3550 Spring Park Road, near Spring Park Road and Emerson Street, east of Interstate 95.
When completed, the property will have two buildings: the commercial kitchen and an adjacent 3,600-square-foot food and materials storage building.
The organization expects construction to begin in April and to be completed by May 20262.
Jacksonville-based Gold Standard Construction & Consulting is the contractor.
Taylor & White is the civil engineer. PQH Group is the architect. Russell Rowland is the structural engineer. Simes & Rosch LLC is the mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineer. All are based in Jacksonville.
The city issued a demolition permit to Gold Standard on March 7 for the first phase of the project: interior demolition of the smaller, existing building on the site.
Aging True produces hundreds of meals daily for homebound seniors in every ZIP code of Duval and Clay counties, as well as congregate-style meals for seniors at each of the senior centers in Duval and Clay, the organization said.
It currently prepares meals out of its Green Cove Springs Senior Center at 604 Walnut St. and the Acosta-Rua Center for Caring at 5450 Ramona Blvd. in West Jacksonville.
Aging True bought the parcel on Spring Park Road in August 2023 for $1.4 million.
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