The city issued a permit for Shady Rays to build-out about 907 square feet at 10281 Midtown Parkway, Unit 197, which is next to Great American Cookies and Marble Slab Creamery in the traffic circle that winds around Maggiano’s Little Italy in St. Johns Town Center.
Dean Builds Inc. of Lexington, Kentucky, is the contractor for the $409,699 project.
Shady Rays sells polarized sunglasses for men, women and children. It says the products are “built for adventure” and are backed by its “lost and broken program.”
Founder and CEO Chris Ratterman, a Louisville, Kentucky, native, founded the company in 2012 to provide durable, polarized sunglasses built for high visibility.
The site lists eight stores in six states, with no other sites in Florida. It shows two locations each in Kentucky and Tennessee, and one each in Arizona, Colorado, Indiana and Minnesota.
The products also are sold at the Shady Rays website, on Amazon.com and at some retailers.
In February 2024, Shady Rays opened its new corporate headquarters and fulfillment and distribution warehouse in Simpsonville, Kentucky, near Louisville.
Shady Rays also offers prescription sunglasses.
The company says its sunglasses are designed in the U.S. and custom-manufactured in China. Prescription lenses are produced in its Kentucky facilities.
The St. Johns Town Center space in review matches the address for Lids, which sells official hats, gear and merchandise for college and pro teams.
The space on the building plans also refers to it as unit D07.
Landlord Simon Property Group often rearranges tenant spaces.