Sunday Notebook: Housing development in the works off Sunbeam Road
A new, as-yet-unnamed development is going in off Sunbeam Road. H. Smith Inc., the developer, paid $1 million for 72 acres at the end of Kevin and Shellie roads, a few hundred yards east of the Craven Road intersection.
It's been approved for 129 lots, said Nate Day of H. Smith. Homes will probably start in the low $200s but average closer to $300,000, he said.
Dream Finders Homes is the exclusive builder. The project is still being engineered, but infrastructure construction should start this summer, he said. Homes will probably come next year.
Sunbeam Road, which runs between San Jose Boulevard and Philips Highway, has been partially developed for a long time. But the past few years have seen developers picking up acreage here and there to fill it all in.
"We'd rather do infill," Day said, "than have to go out to the hinterlands.
DR Horton is developing Egret's Landing, which wraps alongside and behind the Gottlieb Building, just west of Hood Road on Sunbeam. It's 20 acres with 60 homesites. Homes are expected to start in the $230s with the first model home open later this year.
KB Home has built two communities along Sunbeam: the 68-home Wexford Chase in 2011 and the 48-home Abby Glen in 2014. Both are sold out.
Speaking of KB Home, it's holding the grand opening for South Shore at Bannon Lakes this weekend. It's located just off International Golf Parkway in St. Johns County, with homes starting in the $230s. On Feb. 25 and 26, it will open Copperleaf, on Philips Highway, half a mile north of Old St. Augustine Road.
SPRINGFIELD
The Cookbook Restaurant is scheduled to open Feb. 26 at 1827 N. Pearl St. in Springfield.That's the site of the former Birdhouse. The restaurant is owned by Brandon Byers, who's already been running Enfinity Entertainment catering. It's going to range from burgers and fries to shrimp and grits, with entree prices $10-$20.
Byers will also have beer, wine and live entertainment.
Meanwhile, Social Grounds coffee shop is expected to open in April at 1712 N. Main St., in the heart of Springfield. Owner Jason Kelloway started roasting his beans in 2015, selling online. But now he's going brick-and-mortar with coffee, espresso, cold brews, nitro brews and pastries.
He's interviewing for employees now.
"Our target is homeless veterans," he said. "I'm a Marine Corps veteran and I was living in my car once. That's who we're reaching out to."
SAN MARCO
Hyppo Gourmet Ice Pops is going to open in that new glass building that's gone up in San Marco Train Station, already home to Panera Bread and La Nopalera. The St. Augustine company has pop shops in St. Augustine, on Riverside Avenue, Tampa, St. Petersburg and Gainesville.
St. Johns
Mattamy Homes has started construction on RiverClub, its new amenity center at RiverTown, the big St. Johns County community it bought in 2014. It already has one amenity center called RiverHouse, but RiverClub is directly on the St. Johns River.
The $6 million, 5,100-square-foot clubhouse will include a pool, playground, kayak launch and event lawn outside, banquet hall, game room and bar on the inside. Opening is expected late this year.
A little more than 100 families lived in RiverTown when Mattamy bought it from the St. Joe Co. for $43.6 million. More than 200 live there now, a spokeswoman said. Its 4,057 acres are approved for 4,950 homes.
The community was St. Joe's last property in Northeast Florida.
PERMITS
4500 San Pablo Road, new four-story medical office building at Mayo Clinic, $50 million, 152,000 square feet, Robins & Morton Group. The building, which will be for cancer, neurologic and neurosurgical care, can be expanded to 11 stories. It's part of a $100 million expansion that Mayo announced last year.
10550 Old St. Augustine Road, interior remodel Miya Sushi, $22,000, NIALVI LLC.
6380 Philips Highway, expansion of Petticoat-Schmitt Civil Contractors office, $275,000, 12,750 square feet, Petticoat-Schmitt Civil Contractors.
4777 Lenoir Ave., Carvana, $2.5 million, 8,233 square feet, Scherer Construction of Northeast Florida. The national autoseller launched online in Jacksonville last year but is now building a showroom. The company paid $1.25 million for 4.29 acres in December.
601 Riverside Ave., exterior modifications to entrances to Black Knight Financial Services, $149,671, Fickling Construction.
1217 N. Pearl St., ADA improvements to state Department of Health, $390,684, 1,500 square feet, Auld & White Constructors.
3001 TalleyrandAve., new canopy and gate arms at Talleyrand, $635,216, Pars Construction Services.
5455 Springfield Blvd., three-story apartment complex for Sulzbacher Center, $10 million, 89,994 square feet, Summit Contracting Group. The project, called Sulzbacher Village, could eventually house up to 340 people.
1182 Shipwatch Drive E., new two-story, single-family residence in Queens Harbour Yacht & Country Club, $1 million, 7,950 square feet, North Florida Builders of Jacksonville. The 0.55-acre waterfront lot sold for $425,000 last year.
4466 Town Center Parkway, new Taco Bell, $809,646, 2,109 square feet, C.W. Hayes Construction. It's going into the Town Center Promenade, one of two new mixed-use projects across the street from St. Johns Town Center.
11700 San JoseBlvd., tenant build-out for Earth Fare, $2,060,071, 27,638 square feet, Benning Construction. PetSmart is also going into Mandarin South shopping center.
1 W. Independent Drive, interior modifications to LFA offices, $172,757, 7,791 square feet, Dav Lin Interior Contractors.
1515 Prudential Drive, renovation of restaurant at Lexington Hotel and Conference Center, $116,390, 2,000 square feet, PIP Management Corp.
Sales
Margaret McKinney and Brian Blanche paid $2,195,325 for the 5,606-square-foot home at 319 12th St., Atlantic Beach. It was built in 2006 and last sold for $900,000 in 2010.
RMR Old Saybrook LLC of New Rochelle, N.Y., paid $4.1 million for the 7,800-square-foot shopping center at 8440 Blanding Blvd.
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