{"id":239568,"date":"2026-04-20T22:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239568\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T22:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T22:35:11","slug":"airport-commerce-center-preparing-for-821720-square-feet-of-north-jacksonville-industrial-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239568\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport Commerce Center preparing for 821,720 square feet of North Jacksonville industrial space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h937447-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Airport Commerce Center is nearing construction of the NXTPoint Logistics headquarters north of Jacksonville International Airport in North Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city is reviewing site development plans for owner The Suddath Cos. to prepare 76.64 acres for an industrial development of two buildings that total 821,720 square feet of space.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">The master site plan of the phased project shows Building E at 566,720 square feet and Building F at 255,000 square feet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">Jacksonville-based Suddath said previously the park will start with a distribution center for its NXTPoint Logistics subsidiary, a distribution, warehouse and fulfillment company.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Evan Walton, Suddath senior vice president of real estate and construction, said March 19 that NXTPoint Logistics would establish its headquarters in a roughly 566,000-square-foot building on the Phase 2 property. The estimated 250,000-square-foot building would be for use by NXTPoint or another tenant.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">England-Thims &amp; Miller Inc. is the project\u2019s civil engineer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">Called Airport Commerce Center Phase 2, the two buildings appear to be the first to be built in the industrial park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A master site plan for Airport Commerce Center Phase 2 shows two warehouses totaling 821,720 square feet in North Jacksonville.\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/d07f1093-feb8-467f-97fd-d00e65dd7a56_t850.png\" title=\"A master site plan for Airport Commerce Center Phase 2 shows two warehouses totaling 821,720 square feet in North Jacksonville.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A master site plan for Airport Commerce Center Phase 2 shows two warehouses totaling 821,720 square feet in North Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>Special to the Daily Record<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p8\" class=\"permalinkable\">Airport Commerce Center is designed for five industrial buildings totaling about 3 million square feet of space west of Pecan Park Road and south of Arnold Road, also called Gold Star Family Parkway.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p9\" class=\"permalinkable\">The property is west of Interstate 95 and west of the Jacksonville Port Authority North Jacksonville marine terminals.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p10\" class=\"permalinkable\">Since August 2025, a Suddath property subsidiary has paid more than $20 million for 312 acres to create Airport Commerce Center. The company said 200.7 acres are upland, meaning they are above the wetland and can be developed.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p11\" class=\"permalinkable\">Less than two weeks after buying the final parcel to create Airport Commerce Center, Suddath began efforts toward road and utility site work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p12\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city issued a permit April 20 for Evans General Contractors LLC of Jacksonville to build a spine road and utilities at a project cost of $15 million.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p13\" class=\"permalinkable\">Through Airport Commerce Center LLC, Suddath wants to start horizontal development with construction of the spine road and utilities for future warehouse construction. The address is 14710 Pecan Park Road.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p14\" class=\"permalinkable\">The master site plan refers to an internal road called Airport Commerce Drive.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p15\" class=\"permalinkable\">Suddath, a Jacksonville-based logistics company, said March 19 it closed March 18 on the final Phase 3 land purchase at Airport Commerce Center, meaning it could start to develop the industrial park.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p16\" class=\"permalinkable\">Phase 1A comprises mass grading, site clearing, infrastructure and utilities.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p17\" class=\"permalinkable\">Phase 1B can fit up to 1.1 million square feet among one or several buildings, depending on demand.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p18\" class=\"permalinkable\">Phase 3 is a nearly 1.08 million-square-foot building. No tenant has been identified.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p19\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city issued four permits Dec. 16 for horizontal development to start work toward the three-phase development. The permits were for site clearing, timber harvest and mass grading.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p20\" class=\"permalinkable\">Established in 1919 in Jacksonville, The Suddath Cos. said it has grown into a $900 million global transportation, relocation management and logistics company, serving 180 countries with 2,000 employees worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p21\" class=\"permalinkable\">\u201cAs a 106-year-old, Jacksonville-based company, we\u2019re proud to continue investing in our hometown and the airport corridor. We will use the development of our own building for our NXTPoint Logistics subsidiary as a springboard for the development of the overall industrial park,\u201d Chairman Steven Suddath said in an Aug. 22 news release.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937447-p22\" class=\"permalinkable\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airport Commerce Center is nearing construction of the NXTPoint Logistics headquarters north of Jacksonville International Airport in North&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-239568","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\/239568","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=239568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}