Permits, plans, rezonings and openings from the past week in Jacksonville, St. Augustine and Duval, St. Johns, Clay and Nassau counties, from Jax Times' reporting. 12 stories this week and 10 more from the past 60 days. A new column goes out every Monday; follow Development to get it by email.
this week past 60 days · 22 pins from street addresses named in the stories; a story with no address appears only in the list below.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - St. Johns County commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday, Nov. 3, to adopt a moratorium on large-sc...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 7, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A proposed grocery store at Veterans Parkway and County Road 210 West in St. Johns County has grown...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Nov. 6, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The City of Jacksonville issued a $3 million site-clearing permit on Oct. 27, 2026, for a Crowley L...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Nov. 6, 2026
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. - St. Johns County has issued building permits for two commercial projects: Northeast Florida's f...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 5, 2026
CLAY COUNTY, Fla. - Baptist Medical Center Clay is planning an approximately 80,000-square-foot medical office building...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 5, 2026
FERNANDINA BEACH, Fla. - Downtown Fernandina Beach's paid parking program will end Nov. 18, 2026, following a City Commi...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 5, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A proposal to build 234 apartments on the former Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School property in...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 5, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Downtown Jacksonville moved closer to several restaurant and retail openings last week after the ci...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 4, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Medicare Open Enrollment ends Dec. 7, 2026, and Florida residents have 560 Medicare Advantage plans...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 4, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The city of Jacksonville issued a $5 million restoration permit Oct. 29 for a parking garage at Asc...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Nov. 2, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Jacksonville's Downtown Investment Authority voted 7-0 on Oct. 21 to support a $49.27 million prope...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Nov. 1, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Data center developers have asked JEA for far more electricity than the utility can deliver today,...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Oct. 31, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Before a Jacksonville homeowner puts up a backyard shed, replaces a roof or swaps out a water heate...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Oct. 31, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office cut the ribbon Tuesday, Oct. 20, on a new headquarters at 532 Riv...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Oct. 31, 2026
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - Across King Street from Flagler College, the twin towers of the former Hotel Alcazar rise over dow...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Oct. 30, 2026
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - About 15 miles south of St. Augustine, a small coquina tower stands on Rattlesnake Island at the m...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Oct. 30, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Jacksonville Terminal opened in 1919, welcomed as many as 142 trains a day at its peak and now hous...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Oct. 29, 2026
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - The red-tiled towers on King Street were built as a winter palace for wealthy Northern tourists, a...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Oct. 25, 2026
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - EverBank Stadium is in the middle of the biggest construction project in its history, and Jaguars f...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Oct. 25, 2026
YULEE, Fla. - Nassau County officials will discuss five major proposed rules for future data centers at a public worksho...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Oct. 24, 2026
St. Augustine, Florida, has two surviving Spanish stone fortifications built 70 years apart for different purposes: Cast...
By Emil Gertjegerdes · Oct. 22, 2026
Before a restaurant in Florida can open its doors, a state inspector has to sign off. Every new restaurant, and every re...
By Mark Gertjegerdes · Oct. 19, 2026Housing permit counts are the U.S. Census Bureau's monthly Building Permits Survey estimates by county. Jacksonville doesn't publish a permit-by-permit open data feed, so this page is built from Jax Times stories; map pins come from street addresses in those stories, placed with OpenStreetMap data.