{"id":276849,"date":"2026-05-19T17:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276849\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:00:08","slug":"jea-board-approves-land-purchase-to-prepare-for-northwest-jacksonville-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/276849\/","title":{"rendered":"JEA board approves land purchase to prepare for Northwest Jacksonville development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"h950015-p1\" class=\"permalinkable\">Citing future development and energy demand in Northwest Jacksonville, the JEA board approved May 19 a proposal to purchase 23.76 acres of undeveloped land and 42.17 acres of easements along Gold Star Family Parkway.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h950015-p2\" class=\"permalinkable\">JEA will spend $3.9 million on the project, purchasing the land from EPG Jax LLC, a subsidiary of Tampa-based Eisenhower Property Group, a real estate and development company.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The JEA board approved May 19, 2026, a proposal to purchase 23.76 acres of undeveloped land and 42.17 acres of easements along Gold Star Family Parkway.\" class=\"media-element file-default fr-fic fr-dii\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260519__Utility_Corridor_Image_2_t850.png\" title=\"The JEA board approved May 19, 2026, a proposal to purchase 23.76 acres of undeveloped land and 42.17 acres of easements along Gold Star Family Parkway.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The JEA board approved May 19, 2026, a proposal to purchase 23.76 acres of undeveloped land and 42.17 acres of easements along Gold Star Family Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>Special to the Daily Record<\/p>\n<p id=\"h950015-p3\" class=\"permalinkable\">The seven-member JEA board voted 6-0, with Kawanza Suarez absent, to approve the purchase. The vote came without discussion. The board\u2019s Capital Project Committee discussed the proposal May 6.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h950015-p4\" class=\"permalinkable\">According to a staff presentation during that meeting, the property would support two electric substations in Northwest Jacksonville and an 11-mile transmission and distribution corridor.<\/p>\n<p id=\"h950015-p5\" class=\"permalinkable\">The parcels are in northwest Duval County, west of Jacksonville International Airport.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Citing future development and energy demand in Northwest Jacksonville, the JEA board approved May 19 a proposal to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-276849","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\/276849","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=276849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}