DAYTONA BEACH The increased push by retailers to provide online shoppers with same- or next-day delivery is creating a need for more distribution centers within a short drive to large numbers of customers.
That could transform Volusia County into a major distribution hub in the coming years, predicts commercial real estate broker David Murphy, an executive vice president with CBRE, a commercial real estate services and investment firm in Orlando. They re coming, Murphy told a recent gathering of the Volusia County Association for Responsible Development, also known as VCARD.
Noting that Volusia County is at the intersection of Interstate 4 and Interstate 95 within an hour s drive of 2.7 million residents, Murphy forecast that the Daytona Beach area will become like Lakeland within the next few years. Today, the Lakeland area is home to more than 30 distribution centers, including three Amazon facilities, as well as fulfillment centers for Publix, Walmart, Home Depot, L
The new VA clinic will be on a 78-acre site that the developer put under contract to buy from Volusia County Schools in late 2019. The developer, Westlake, Ohio-based Carnegie Management & Development Corp., has agreed to pay $4.5 million for the mostly wooded land.
The federal contract calls for the new VA clinic to provide at least 106,826-square-foot of usable space for a wide range of uses including primary medical care, mental health and specialty medical care services and physical rehabilitation services. The clinic will include an on-site medical laboratory, a pharmacy, and eye and dental clinics. The new clinic is a consolidation and relocation of existing services, said Andrea Madrazo, a spokeswoman for Orlando VA Healthcare Systems.