PROJECTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
CENTRAL Construction underway for
massive Ellenton industrial
park Benderson Development is build-
ing a massive industrial park in Man-
atee County.
Located on the northwest corner
of the intersection of Interstate 75
and U.S. 301, the 2,000,000-sq.-ft.
park, called Florida International
Trade Port, will be completed in
phases. Construction is underway on the
first two buildings. The developer
plans to finish the 500,000-sq.-ft.
first phase within 12 months.
The 132-acre industrial park will
be one the biggest in the state. It
will be bigger than the Mall at Uni-
versity Town Center, which is
880,000 sq. ft.
Lane Construction wins
$253 million contract to
build Seminole County
parkway Lane Construction Corp. says it
has won a $253 million design-build
contract to construct the Wekiva
Parkway (Section 8) in Seminole
County. The contract supports Lane’s re-
cently renewed strategy, which is
focused on building large-scale,
complex infrastructure, the com-
pany said in a news release. Lane
has a long history in the state of
Florida with other large infrastruc-
ture works including the I-4 Ultimate
Improvement Project in Orlando;
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Osceola County Line to the Beach-
line Expressway/S.R. 528; and the
Suncoast Parkway 2 leading north of
Tampa. The Section 8 contract will de-
sign 2.63 miles of limited access toll
road from Orange Blvd. to east of
Rinehart Rd. The project will include
the new Wekiva Pkwy interchange
at I-4 that will connect with S.R. 417,
completing the beltway around Cen-
tral Florida. Construction is expected
to begin in early 2019 and be com-
pleted in 2022.
"The project has been recognized
for its environmentally friendly fea-
tures that will help foster the sensi-
tive wildlife it will encroach upon:
3,400 acres of conservation land,
numerous wildlife bridges, and
largely elevated roadways to reduce
accidents between vehicles and
wildlife," the news release asserted.
NORTHEAST GLDD wins $113 million
contract for Jacksonville’s
harbor deepening project
Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Corp.
(GLDD) has received a $113-million
contract from the Jacksonville Dis-
trict Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE) for the Jacksonville’s har-
bor deepening project.
tiple construction contracts designed
to deepen the existing Federal navi-
gation channel from its current au-
thorized depth of 40 ft. to 47 ft.
Contract work will also widen spe-
cific areas for two-way traffic and
turning, and also provide some ad-
vance channel maintenance.
The second contract includes
dredging roughly 5.7 million cubic
yards of material from River Mile 3
near the Naval Station Mayport run-
way, westerly to Mile 8 at the east
tip of La Baron Island. The work
does not involve blasting. The con-
tractor will transport excavated ma-
terial and place it in the Jacksonville
Ocean Dredged Material Disposal
Site located about six miles south-
east of the entrance channel jetties.
The contract includes the base,
Mayport runway to Buck Island, and
Option A from Buck Island to La
Baron Island, according to the Corps
of Engineers.
GLDD says the work is expected
to commence in the fourth quarter
of 2018, with completion of both
base contract and expected options
in the second quarter of 2021.
Venus Fashion to begin $9
million Jacksonville HQ
renovation Venus Fashion plans to invest $9
million to renovate its headquarters
at 11711 Marco Beach Dr. in Jack-
sonville. GLDD expects the USACE to
award additional option work items
on the contract by mid-2019 with a
value of $97 million, resulting in a
total contract value of $210 million.
According to the USACE, this
second contract calls for deepening
approximately five miles of the St.
Johns River in addition to the ongo-
ing deepening of the first contract,
which covers approximately three
miles from the entranceway inland.
The contact is the second of mul-
The renovation work will be com-
pleted in four phases. The city ap-
proved a permit for a $1.14-million
renovation of 18,342-sq.-ft. of space
on the second floor of the two-story
building. It will include interior walls,
paint, flooring, ceramic tile, plumb-
ing, HVAC, doors and hardware, JAX
Daily Record reported.