A still-unnamed manufacturer wants to build a 220,000-square-foot production plant on 49.59 acres at Eastport Exchange in North Jacksonville, and the city is now reviewing the civil engineering plans that would make it happen. The project, dubbed Project Keystone, would become the industrial park’s largest manufacturer if it moves forward.
The plans, detailed by Jacksonville Daily Record, call for vehicle parking, two separate auto entrances, a dedicated truck entrance, a truck access road and rail access — infrastructure suited to heavy production rather than simple warehousing. Jacksonville-based The Haskell Co. is listed as the project’s architect and engineer, according to the same report. A proposed 8.05-acre outparcel also sits at the corner of the site.
What the plans do not reveal is who actually wants to build there. InLight Real Estate Partners managing partner David Burch, who is developing Eastport Exchange, would only confirm what the project is not: it is neither the long-delayed Holon electric vehicle plant nor the unidentified company behind Project Apollo, the Daily Record reported. Burch has said he is bound by a strict nondisclosure agreement, leaving the identity of Eastport Exchange’s would-be anchor tenant a genuine open question for now.
A Rezoning Request Tied to the Mystery Project
Separately, InLight has applied to rezone 47.5 acres at the southeast corner of Kraft and Eastport roads from Industrial Business Park to Industrial Heavy, a shift that would clear the way for heavy industrial manufacturing on the site. Per the Daily Record’s reporting, that rezoning request would need sign-off from both the Jacksonville Planning Commission and City Council before it could take effect…