{"id":238696,"date":"2026-04-20T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238696\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:00:10","slug":"city-issues-permit-for-axionlog-expansion-to-create-almost-100000-square-foot-logistics-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238696\/","title":{"rendered":"City issues permit for Axionlog expansion to create almost 100,000-square-foot logistics center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h936868-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city issued a permit April 17 for Axionlog\u2019s proposed North Jacksonville expansion at a project cost of almost $7.59 million.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">Plans show the Argentina-based logistics company wants to add 59,336 square feet of freezer, cool dock, office and associated space to the existing 38,375-square-foot project, creating a 97,711-square-foot project on 44.74 acres at 11370 New Berlin Road in North Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city permit for Axionlog is for a project to add 58,661 square feet of the proposal.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">V. Paulius &amp; Associates of Allendale, New Jersey, was the contractor for the initial project and is listed as the contractor for the expansion.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city issued a site-clearing permit Dec. 2 for the expansion at a project cost of $575,000, followed by a foundation permit Jan. 27 at $75,000.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Axionlog site plan shows a 59,336-square-foot expansion north of its current building with additional pavement and site work. The North Jacksonville facility is at 11370 New Berlin Road.\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/axionLog_site_plan_t850.jpg\" title=\"The Axionlog site plan shows a 59,336-square-foot expansion north of its current building with additional pavement and site work. The North Jacksonville facility is at 11370 New Berlin Road.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Axionlog site plan shows a 59,336-square-foot expansion north of its current building with additional pavement and site work. The North Jacksonville facility is at 11370 New Berlin Road.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">Axionlog completed the first phase of its cold- and dry-storage warehouse in 2022 at northwest New Berlin and Faye roads.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">The expansion tracks Axionlog\u2019s initially announced plans that it would start with freezer and dry storage space that was designed to expand to almost 105,000 square feet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p8\" class=\"permalinkable\">JAX Chamber announced in December 2019 that the company would establish a consolidation\/distribution facility in Duval County and start with 25 jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p9\" class=\"permalinkable\">Before the pandemic, JaxPort announced Feb. 25, 2020, that Axionlog chose it to ship its U.S.-manufactured exports bound for Latin America.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p10\" class=\"permalinkable\">JaxPort said Axionlog intended to open the warehouse by early 2021 and that the 38,000-square-foot facility was expected to expand to 100,000 square feet and create 60 jobs within five years.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p11\" class=\"permalinkable\">That initial time frame was affected by the coronavirus pandemic, which led to shutdowns in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Axionlog is building a distribution center near Blount Island Marine Terminal in North Jacksonville.\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/288052_standard_t850.jpeg\" title=\"Axionlog is building a distribution center near Blount Island Marine Terminal in North Jacksonville.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Axionlog is building a distribution center near Blount Island Marine Terminal in North Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p12\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city approved a $2.9 million permit June 14, 2021, for Axionlog to build the initial cold and dry storage warehouse.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p13\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city had issued permits totaling $125,000 for site clearing on 16.53 acres, foundation construction and other work.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p14\" class=\"permalinkable\">Axionlog, a global restaurant supplier, proposed to build a $15 million warehouse.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p15\" class=\"permalinkable\">The \u201c2020 Distribution Center for Axionlog Cold Solutions\u201d plans showed freezer, cooler and dry-storage space connected to cool-dock and dry-dock space and an office.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p16\" class=\"permalinkable\">Faye Road Associates LLC, associated with V. Paulius &amp; Associates, is the landowner.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p17\" class=\"permalinkable\">Axionlog is a full-service logistics provider that manages the transportation of restaurant supplies, including food, flatware, and paper and plastic products for some of the world\u2019s largest fast-food chains, according to JaxPort.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p18\" class=\"permalinkable\">The distribution center was designed to consolidate, sort and store products to be exported through JaxPort. The site is near the Blount Island Marine Terminal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p19\" class=\"permalinkable\">JaxPort said Axionlog planned to start importing products for domestic distribution by 2022.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p20\" class=\"permalinkable\">Axionlog.com says it is a global supply chain manager with more than 60 food-market customers in Latin American countries. It says it operates 24 distribution centers with more than 1,700 employees.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h936868-p21\" class=\"permalinkable\">It lists Dairy Queen, McDonald\u2019s, Subway and Quiznos among its customers.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city issued a permit April 17 for Axionlog\u2019s proposed North Jacksonville expansion at a project cost of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-238696","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\/238696","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=238696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}