Wildlight Garden District
The Wildlight master-planned community in Nassau County announced the first homebuilders Sept. 22 for its new Garden District in Yulee, according to the Jacksonville Daily Record.
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The homebuilders are Ashton Woods, David Weekley Homes, Perry Homes and Toll Brothers.
The Garden District is at Riverbluff Parkway and Pages Dairy Road, about 9 miles east of Interstate 95 and Wildlight’s Town District, which includes retail, office and housing.
It will encompass 4,700 acres, including 2,000 acres dedicated to conservation, and feature a 19-mile trail network with a public access point to the 13-mile Green Ribbon Trail along the St. Marys River. The full build-out is planned for about 4,100 homes.
Atlanta-based Ashton Woods, one of the nation’s largest private homebuilders, also operates subsidiary Starlight Homes.
Ashton Woods announced it was entering the Jacksonville area in 2023 but has not opened any communities, according to its website.
Houston-based David Weekley Homes has operated in Northeast Florida for 24 years.
Perry Homes, also from Houston, has projects in Northeast Florida, Port St. Lucie, Sarasota and Tampa.
Toll Brothers, a Fortune 500 company that builds in more than 60 markets across 24 states, has multiple projects in Northeast Florida.
Community First Credit Union
Almost a year after closing on land in the Wildlight community in Yulee, Community First Credit Union has a building permit application under review in Nassau County for a branch at the site — its first in Yulee.
The credit union bought 1.19 acres for $900,000 on Dec. 12, 2024, from Wildlight LLC, according to the Nassau County Clerk of Court. The branch is planned at Crosstown Avenue and Florida 200 at 148 Kindred Lane, according to the county’s building department. The road is being developed.
The project cost is estimated at $935,366.
The Wildlight branch will be the credit union’s third in Nassau, joining locations in the Villages of Amelia shopping center and in Callahan.
Cornerstone Classical Academy
Cornerstone Classical Academy, a Jacksonville-based charter school, is planning a campus in the Wildlight community’s Garden District in Yulee.
Jacksonville-owned utility JEA is reviewing a service availability request and Nassau County is reviewing site plans.
Wildlight LLC owns the land, which is about 9 miles east of Interstate 95 at Riverbluff Parkway and Pages Dairy Road.
Lindsay and David Hoyt founded the school in Jacksonville in 2018 and opened it in 2020.
Wildlight Commerce Center
On June 25, Pattillo Industrial Real Estate hosted a groundbreaking for Wildlight Commerce Park.
The two buildings under construction are 149,000 and 68,000 square feet. Both are speculative and divisible, according to marketing materials.
Construction of the first phase is expected to last about a year, according to Peter Anderson, Pattillo’s vice president of new development. He said phases will be based on demand.
“There is more surety when you have an existing building and can promise dates,” Anderson said.
The site, when completed, will have a projected build-out of 1.5 million square feet across 12 buildings.
The speculative buildings will provide ready-to-occupy space — a major advantage for companies looking to expand or relocate quickly, according to Anderson.
Unnamed Yulee supercenter
Plans for a new shopping center in Nassau County show it anchored by a retail store the size of a Walmart Supercenter.
Called the Shoppes at Yulee, the center is proposed off Florida 200 west of Interstate 95, near the planned Wildlight community.
The nearly 30-acre site comprises two parcels: a 25.71-acre site owned by the Charles H. Jones Family Foundation Inc. of Macon, Georgia, and a 4.14-acre site owned by Westgate Resorts Ltd. of Orlando.
The project was scheduled for discussion by Nassau County Development Review Committee July 1, but the applicant did not appear and the item has not been rescheduled.
To move forward, the project requires a rezoning and a comprehensive plan amendment.