Site Development Information

For further site development questions, contact Ed Randolph at (904) 630-1185 or edr@coj.net.

• Ownership
  • The City of Jacksonville can convey fee simple title to parcels.
     
• Master Plan
  • Click here (PDF 1.14M) to view the current version of the Cecil Commerce Center® Master Plan.
     
• Mega Site Designation
  • In 2006, McCallum Sweeney Consulting and CSX certified approximately 1,500 acres in the northern-most section of Cecil Commerce Center® as a 'Mega Site', a large industrial property qualified to support a major automotive manufacturing facility or similar activity.
     
• Architectural Review Board (ARB)
  • Click here (PDF 1.5M) to view the current version of the ARB Guidelines for Cecil Commerce Center®.
  • Click here (PDF 53K) to download the ARB application.
     
• Permitting
  • Site is pre-approved by all state and local zoning and land use regulatory agencies for light and heavy industrial, office and commercial applications.
  • Pre-approved process permitting has been obtained for industrial applications up to and including semiconductor wafer fabrication.
  • Endangered species survey has been performed. No endangered/protected species were found.
  • All of Jacksonville and Duval County is an EPA designated Air Quality Attainment area with monitoring required only for ozone. 
     
• Concurrency
  • Site currently has enough concurrency trips to cover all of the proposed development included in the Master Plan for Cecil (32 +/- million SF), at no cost. 
     
• Topography
  • Wetlands encountered have been surveyed, permitted and are being mitigated through previously established mitigation bank.
  • Slope varies less than 1 percent from the highest to lowest elevation across entire site.
   
• Geotechnical
  
  • Recent soil analysis shows most soils on site are suitable for development.
  • Sandy soils, 60 feet from surface to bedrock. No upper level rock strata encountered.
  • Maximum soil bearing pressures for shallow foundations will be on the order of 3,000 to 4,000 psf.
  • Soil testing indicates maximum column loads of 500 kips can be constructed on conventional shallow foundation systems.
  • Below-grade structures feasible with top and bottom restraints and drainage provisions.
  • Soil conditions are typical for Northeast Florida. 
     

• Utilities
  Approximately $51 million invested in Cecil Commerce Center® electric, water and sewer infrastructure. For more information on the utility infrastructure at Cecil and in Jacksonville, click here.

  • Electric
    • JEA among the lowest cost electric utilities in Southeast.
    • Highly reliable system, no brown outs, no black outs.
    • Multiple feeds, dual substations can be provided on-site.
    • Click here to view Cecil North Electric Utilities Map (PDF 324K).
    • Click here to view Cecil South Electric Utilities Map (PDF 287K).
  • Water
    • Site to be loop served from two different existing high capacity treatment plants.
    • Total system excess capacity within water treatment grid serving Cecil Commerce Center® is 75 MGD.
    • Click here to view Cecil North Water Utilities Map (PDF 320K).
    • Click here to view Cecil South Water Utilities Map (PDF 292K).
  • Sewer
    • Site to be served from existing, on-site 52 million GPD treatment plant.
    • Click here to view Cecil North Sewer Utilities Map (PDF 318K).
    • Click here to view Cecil South Sewer Utilities Map (PDF 280K).
  • Natural Gas
    • Site is served by TECO-Peoples Gas, Florida's largest provider of natural gas.
    • Click here to view Natural Gas Map (PDF 791K).

   

  117 West Duval Street, Suite 275, Jacksonville, FL 32202
  (904) 630-1858