JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Sulzbacher and city leaders broke ground Friday on Phase 2A of Enterprise Village, the nonprofit’s $28 million development that will add health care and job-training services to a new 17-acre campus in Northwest Jacksonville.
The ceremony took place at 4785 Walgreen Road, west of Interstate 95 and east of Brentwood Golf Course. Phase 2A will include a 30,000-square-foot, three-story Federally Qualified Health Center and a 14,000-square-foot job training facility open to the broader community.
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“Enterprise Village is living proof that we can solve Jacksonville’s biggest challenges,” Mayor Donna Deegan said, praising the project’s partnerships and funders and calling the services “desperately needed” in the community.
Councilwoman Ju’Coby Pittman, whose District 10 includes the site, said, “It’s been eight years, and we are here. New beginnings,” and thanked donors for investing in Northwest Jacksonville.
Phase One, a four-story building with 100 studio and one-bedroom apartments for formerly unhoused men, is about 70% complete. The city of Jacksonville made a $15 million investment in Phase One, officials said. Project leaders expect construction on Phase 2A to be completed by year-end 2027.
Phase 2A will relocate wraparound services from Sulzbacher’s downtown campus and will operate the job-training center in partnership with Goodwill and Florida State College at Jacksonville. Mayo Clinic is a lead sponsor of the health center; other backers include Truist Bank, the Terry Family Foundation, the Jim Moran Foundation and private donors. Construction for Phase 2A is being led by Auld & White; Summit Contractors and The Vestcor Companies are co-developers on Phase One.
Sulzbacher said Phase 2B will later move remaining emergency housing, tiny homes, case management and corporate headquarters to the campus, and Phase 3 will include an on-site manufacturing facility to provide jobs for residents and others facing employment barriers.