JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Fencing is up, equipment is staged, pipes are stacked, dirt is piled up, some shrubbery and trees are down and boards cover some of the entrances to the former Regency Square Mall in Arlington, according to our news partners at the Jacksonville Daily Record.
The visible signs of impending work signal the start of parking lot demolition several months after the city issued a permit April 6 for site-clearing at a project cost of almost $3.7 million.
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Fencing surrounds part of the parking lot on the east end of the mall where outparcels are being prepared for development.
Urban Partners Construction, a design-build and general contracting company, put a sign behind the fencing indicating it will be working on the project.
Blackwater Development LLC intends to redevelop the property at 9501 Arlington Expressway into The Nexus at Regency, with first-phase work to create outparcels for restaurants, a bank, a gas station and other retailers.
The fencing ends near Impact Church, which is separately owned in the center of the mall property. Impact Church remains accessible from Arlington Expressway and within the mall property.
There is no fencing at the west end and north face of the mall where the closed Sears and the Dillard’s Clearance Centers also are separately owned.
The approved demolition work includes asphalt removal, sidewalk removal, curb removal, storm drainage, sanitary sewer, water main, fire main, subgrade, base, curb, sidewalk, asphalt paving, striping and signage, the permit application says.
The demolition permit came less than two weeks after the city approved civil engineering development and sketch plans March 26, a move that allowed the developer to work on infrastructure to prepare outparcels along Atlantic Boulevard and Monument Road.
With those approvals, Blackwater can start to prepare what plans show as eight outparcels from 1.1 acres to 2.25 acres at the mall property’s southwest corner.
Blackwater President Rurmell McGee declined comment about the current state of demolition.
He said March 26 the approvals mean his group can “take this next step in the transformation of the Regency Square Mall.”
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