Florida

ELKTON, FLA. — KeHE Distributors is underway on the development of a 530,474-square-foot build-to-suit industrial facility in the St. Augustine suburb of Elkton, which will provide office and distribution space for the company. KeHE distributes natural and organic, specialty and fresh food products to more than 31,000 stores throughout North America. The project comprises a two-story, 30,000-square-foot executive office suite, as well as roughly 500,000 square feet of warehouse and distribution space. The new facility will replace the company’s older buildings, which are situated across the street from the development site. Completion of the development is scheduled for 2025. Design firm Ware Malcomb is providing architecture, interior design and branding services for the project, and Evans General Contractors is constructing the facility. 

PORT ST. LUCIE, FLA. — Big-box wholesale retail giant Costco and St. Louis-based development firm Sansone Group have teamed up to purchase 192 acres within Legacy Park at Tradition, a 425-acre industrial park in Port St. Lucie. The companies plan to develop a 595,000-square-foot depot facility at the site. Costco has industrial development rights to expand its project up to 1.9 million square feet. Other Sansone-developed projects at Legacy Park at Tradition include build-to-suit facilities for FedEx Ground and Amazon, as well as two speculative facilities. The developer is also in the planning stages of another spec facility and a cold storage property within the park. The project team for the Costco development includes engineer Culpepper & Terpening, legal counsel Husch Blackwell, the City of Port St. Lucie and Robert Smith and Kirk Nelson at CBRE. The construction timeline was not disclosed.