{"id":275586,"date":"2026-05-18T20:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275586\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T20:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:15:17","slug":"city-officials-silent-on-status-of-holon-factory-for-autonomous-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275586\/","title":{"rendered":"City officials silent on status of Holon factory for autonomous vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After plans for an April groundbreaking came and went for Holon\u2019s Northwest Jacksonville manufacturing facility, officials for the autonomous transportation company and Jacksonville\u2019s city government have shared no details on what could come next.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h948484-p2\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/05\/05\/jta-skyway-meetings\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JTA studies Skyway options and postpones community meetings<\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"h948484-p2\">Holon, a German-based autonomous vehicle manufacturer, committed to make <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2025\/10\/27\/holon-autonomous-vehicles-jacksonville\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a $100 million capital investment<\/a> into the facility planned at Eastport Exchange in North Jacksonville. However, the company missed its target for a planned April groundbreaking without a public announcement and hasn\u2019t filed for any permits to begin construction on the facility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In October 2025, Holon and the Jacksonville Transportation Authority announced plans for the manufacturer to build a production facility at the Eastport Exchange industrial park at 10145 Eastport Road, where Holon would build vehicles for JTA\u2019s autonomated Ultimate Urban Circulator, or U2C, public transportation system and for other customers. In June 2024, the city of Jacksonville approved an incentive package of more than $7.5 million for Holon to expand to Jacksonville.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/may\/18\/city-officials-holon-silent-over-status-of-100-million-northwest-jacksonville-facility\/\" 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":"After plans for an April groundbreaking came and went for Holon\u2019s Northwest Jacksonville manufacturing facility, officials for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-275586","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\/275586","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=275586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}