{"id":239903,"date":"2026-04-21T04:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239903\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T04:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:07:11","slug":"city-gives-green-light-for-becknells-westlake-industrial-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/239903\/","title":{"rendered":"City gives green light for Becknell\u2019s Westlake industrial site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h937498-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city issued a permit April 20 for Becknell Industrial to launch horizontal development on a 75.1-acre site for a 609,120-square-foot Westlake Industrial Park warehouse on Lot 21-A.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">The project cost is $8 million.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">Kimley-Horn and Associates Inc. in Jacksonville is the civil engineer for the project, described as construction of the industrial building with associated paving, utilities and stormwater management.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">The address is 10955 Hartrich Court, a new road within Becknell\u2019s vacant land along Pritchard Road in the West Jacksonville industrial park. The site is about 7 miles west of Interstate 295, north of Interstate 10, in Northwest Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">Becknell Services LLC, based in Indianapolis, is the owner and developer.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p6\" class=\"permalinkable\">The city and St. Johns River Water Management District had been reviewing plans for a 609,120-square-foot warehouse for Becknell Industrial on the site.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p7\" class=\"permalinkable\">Property records show that Becknell, through Pritchard Road Florida Becknell Investors III LLC, paid $8.96 million for the vacant 171-acre site in December 2019.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p8\" class=\"permalinkable\">That LLC then sold the property internally to Jacksonville 21 Becknell Industrial LLC on March 26, 2025, for a consideration of $15.2 million.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p9\" class=\"permalinkable\">It marketed the land in two parcels \u2013 Lot 21-A and Lot 21-B.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p10\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Becknell warehouse in review is on the 75.1-acre Lot 21-A. The net acreage for development is shown as 42.2 acres.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p11\" class=\"permalinkable\">No tenant is identified for the warehouse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Plans show the Westlake Industrial Park land marketed in two parcels \u2013 Lot 21-A and Lot 21-B. A Becknell warehouse is in review is on the 75.1-acre Lot 21-A. Sysco International Food Group appears to be for Lot 21-B.\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/becknell_two_buildings_t850.jpg\" title=\"Plans show the Westlake Industrial Park land marketed in two parcels \u2013 Lot 21-A and Lot 21-B. A Becknell warehouse is in review is on the 75.1-acre Lot 21-A. Sysco International Food Group appears to be for Lot 21-B.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Plans show the Westlake Industrial Park land marketed in two parcels \u2013 Lot 21-A and Lot 21-B. A Becknell warehouse is in review is on the 75.1-acre Lot 21-A. Sysco International Food Group appears to be for Lot 21-B.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p12\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Colliers real estate company and Becknell\u2019s marketing brochure call it a fulfillment\/distribution center site for lease. It shows it is pad-ready for development of 609,120 square feet at 13522 Pritchard Road.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p13\" class=\"permalinkable\">Colliers Executive Vice President Guy Preston and senior associates Seda Preston and John Cole are marketing the site.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p14\" class=\"permalinkable\">City utility JEA issued a service availability determination letter Feb. 4, 2025, for Westlake Industrial Lot 21 to see if it had service access for up to 1.2 million square feet of industrial space.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p15\" class=\"permalinkable\">The 609,120-square-foot Building 1 and 576,251-square-foot Building 2 total almost 1.19 million square feet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p16\" class=\"permalinkable\">The Becknell site is next to the vacant 96-acre Lot 21-B, which was sold to Sysco International Food Group Inc. The net acreage is 73.6 acres.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p17\" class=\"permalinkable\">The sites are separated by the new Hartrich Court, with Lot 21-A to the north of it and Lot 21-B to the south.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p18\" class=\"permalinkable\">Sysco paid $16.5 million on July 22, 2025, the same day Jacksonville City Council approved incentives for a warehouse for the code-named Project Moana, to buy land along Pritchard Road from Becknell Industrial.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p19\" class=\"permalinkable\">Becknell sold the land to Sysco through Jacksonville 21 Becknell Industrial LLC. Guy Preston represented Becknell in the sale.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Becknell Industrial warehouse site along Pritchard Road in Westlake Industrial Park in West Jacksonville.\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/becknell_building_area_t850.jpg\" title=\"The Becknell Industrial warehouse site along Pritchard Road in Westlake Industrial Park in West Jacksonville.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Becknell Industrial warehouse site along Pritchard Road in Westlake Industrial Park in West Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>Colliers<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p20\" class=\"permalinkable\">According to a city Office of Economic Development staff summary, Sysco, initially code-named Project Moana, plans a capital investment of $80 million in new construction and $10 million in equipment for a 275,000-square-foot expansion warehouse.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p21\" class=\"permalinkable\">The park plan exhibit shows a larger project.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p22\" class=\"permalinkable\">An exhibit shows Westlake Lot 21-B as a 352,380-square-foot Building 2 with two future expansions of 106,210 square feet and 117,661 square feet. That means Building 2 could total 576,251 square feet.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p23\" class=\"permalinkable\">Houston-based Sysco Corp. markets itself as the world\u2019s largest food distributor. It has two cold-storage food operations in Jacksonville already.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h937498-p24\" class=\"permalinkable\">On July 22, 2025, the city approved $2.5 million in incentives for the code-named project.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city issued a permit April 20 for Becknell Industrial to launch horizontal development on a 75.1-acre site&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-239903","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\/239903","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=239903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}