{"id":302661,"date":"2026-06-10T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302661\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T15:16:08","slug":"sale-approved-for-former-jea-headquarters-180-residences-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302661\/","title":{"rendered":"Sale approved for former JEA headquarters; 180 residences planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JEA\u2019s former <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2026\/02\/24\/jea-headquarters-sale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Downtown headquarters campus<\/a> is poised to undergo an office-to-residential conversion after Jacksonville City Council granted final approval of an agreement for the project on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><img data-dominant-color=\"aaaea5\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #aaaea5;\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"478\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/JEA-HQ.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-115221 not-transparent\"  \/>Live Oak Contracting plans to transform the former JEA headquarters campus in Downtown Jacksonville into The Jewel at 21 West, with 180 residential units, rooftop amenities, office space and ground-floor uses. | Jacksonville Daily Record<\/p>\n<p id=\"h959156-p2\">Jacksonville-based Live Oak Contracting plans to buy the 2.47-acre, three-building property through The Jewel at 21 West LLC for $1 million and develop it into 180 residential units with rooftop amenities, office space and ground-floor uses.<\/p>\n<p>Council approved a <a href=\"https:\/\/jaxtoday.org\/2024\/08\/28\/jeas-old-downtown-headquarters-will-go-on-the-market\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">purchase agreement<\/a> on a 16-0 vote, with members Rory Diamond, Chris Miller and Jimmy Peluso not present.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jaxdailyrecord.com\/news\/2026\/jun\/09\/sale-of-former-jea-headquarters-approved\/\" 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":"JEA\u2019s former Downtown headquarters campus is poised to undergo an office-to-residential conversion after Jacksonville City Council granted final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-302661","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\/302661","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=302661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}