{"id":195404,"date":"2026-03-17T20:47:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195404\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:47:06","slug":"gresham-smith-building-out-in-1-independent-square-downtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195404\/","title":{"rendered":"Gresham Smith building-out in 1 Independent Square Downtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h921461-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Architecture, planning and design firm Gresham Smith appears to be moving from one Downtown office tower to another.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921461-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city issued a permit March 17 for Marand Builders Inc. of Jacksonville Beach to build-out almost 8,600 square feet of space for Gresham Smith in 1 Independent Square at 1 Independent Drive at a project cost of $2.07 million.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921461-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Gresham Smith is building-out space in Suite 2901 on the 29th floor of the 37-story tower. Meskel &amp; \u00a0Associates Engineering PLLC of Jacksonville is the private provider for plan review.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921461-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The firm\u2019s address now is the 22nd floor in One Enterprise Center at 225 Water St. That space, Suite 2200, is the top floor.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921461-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Gresham Smith will move two blocks east.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921461-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">The firm moved Downtown in 2015 from the suburbs where it had operated in the Concourse at 5220 Belfort Road. At the time, Gresham Smith said a 10-year lease was signed for about 10,700 square feet of space.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921461-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">The 1 Independent Drive tower is owned by AREIT RE WFC LLC of New York City.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921461-p8\" class=\"permalinkable\">Nashville, Tennessee-based Gresham Smith says it established a Jacksonville office in 1989.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h921461-p9\" class=\"permalinkable\">It says on GreshamSmith.com that the Jacksonville team specializes in providing architecture, interior design and engineering services for the firm\u2019s health care and transportation clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Architecture, planning and design firm Gresham Smith appears to be moving from one Downtown office tower to another.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-195404","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\/195404","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=195404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}