If all the
regulatory targets are met, developers would like to break ground on
the proposed 296-acre Kendall Town Center in Regency by next
year this time.
"We're working on it," said Ken Wilson, president of
developer GL National Inc.
Kendall Town Center is a mixed-use retail, office, hotel and
residential center planned between Southside Boulevard, also called
the Southside Connector, and Florida 9A. The property is north of
Regency Square mall.
GL National is part of Jacksonville-based Gate Petroleum
Co. It still needs to complete a developer's agreement with the
city and gain approvals for its planned unit development, a process
that takes another step on April 3.
A City Council committee has scheduled a public hearing
that day for the project's proposed fair-share assessment contract.
"It's likely, if things proceed well, that we could commence
within 12 months," Wilson said today. That commencement would
include infrastructure, roads, utilities and landscaping.
After that, construction would depend on developers who buy the
property for their own projects.
The Transportation, Environment and Energy Committee will
hold the hearing about the proposed $6.65 million fair-share
assessment that GL National would pay to the city in return for the
ability to develop the property. Under fair share contracts,
developers pay the city to ensure adequate services for a project.
According to the council resolution for the contract, Kendall
Town Center could comprise:
1,920 multi-family residential units
120 congregate-care facility units
480,000 square feet of retail space
360,000 square feet of office space
280 hotel rooms
Wilson said today that GL National hopes to start immediately on
designs for Trednick Parkway, which would connect Southside to
Monument Road. He said that was an interim program to help the
traffic flow as the Jacksonville Transportation Authority
completes its designs for interchange and expressway improvements in
that area.
"It's a temporary east-west access until JTA completes its design
and construction of the new expressway system," Wilson said.
