{"id":167539,"date":"2026-02-24T22:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167539\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:02:07","slug":"jea-board-approves-sale-of-former-headquarters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/167539\/","title":{"rendered":"JEA board approves sale of former headquarters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JEA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2024\/08\/28\/jeas-old-downtown-headquarters-will-go-on-the-market\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former headquarters<\/a> in Downtown is closer to being renovated into a mixed-use residential property after the city-owned utility\u2019s board voted Tuesday to sell it to a Jacksonville-based developer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With a 6-0 vote, the seven-member board approved the sale of the three-building property for $1 million to <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/09\/12\/jea-headquarters-sale-live-oak\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live Oak Contracting<\/a>. With board approval, JEA will seek City Council approval to sell the property.<\/p>\n<p>Live Oak plans to develop the property into The Jewel at 21 West, it announced in a September 2025 release. Plans include converting the office building into 180 residential units with rooftop amenities, office space and ground-floor uses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/24\/jea-board-approves-sale-of-former-headquarters-to-live-oak-contracting\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the rest of this story<\/a> at the Jacksonville Daily Record, a Jacksonville Today news partner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JEA\u2019s former headquarters in Downtown is closer to being renovated into a mixed-use residential property after the city-owned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-167539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}