Gate Petroleum plans a massive mixed-use development, including the largest shopping area in Northeast Florida, on property it owns in St. Johns County. Called Durbin Park, it will cover 1,600 acres south of Race Track Road, stretching east of Interstate 95 and west of the new Florida 9B.
Plans for the project, which Gate will develop along with partner Gatlin Development Co., call for 2.4 million square feet of retail, 2.8 million square feet of office space, 999 multifamily units and 350 hotel rooms. To put that in perspective, St. Johns Town Center has 1.4 million square feet of retail space.
Ken Wilson, vice president of Gate, said those numbers have all been approved by St. Johns County, but they’re all maximums without a guarantee they’ll be built. “But my best guess is that we’ll accomplish it,” he said. “There’s such a serious lack of big-box retailers and services in the northern half of St. Johns County.”
The first phase, on an 80-acre parcel west of 9B/County Road 2209, will include approximately 700,000 square feet of retail anchored by three big-box retailers, Gate said. Construction is scheduled to start late this year with an opening in the second quarter of 2018.
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