The district issued an invitation to negotiate in November seeking offers for its riverfront office building on Prudential Drive and other surplus properties.
After years of discussion surrounding the potential sale of Duval County Public Schools riverfront headquarters, this week the school district received bids toward sale and relocation.
The city issued a permit April 4 for Insight General Contractors Inc. to convert the former Overby’s Inc. property at 2619 Philips Highway for lease to Standard Sand & Silica Co., which operates Surface Prep Supply in Jacksonville.
Insight will renovate the 18,556-square-foot building at a cost of $255,000. Davenport-based Standard Sand & Silica, which makes industrial sand, intends to relocate there from its operation at 600 E. Eighth St. near Springfield.
Surface Prep Supply sells abrasives, coating and athletic field products and rents and sells sandblasting equipment and supplies.
The new location previously housed Overby’s, which repaired luxury used cars.
Beaver Street Fisheries