Boeing lands $39M permit for component facility (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Business Journal) — Construction on a $39 million, 150,000-square-foot Boeing Component Operations is underway.
Clayco Construction Co. Inc. received the permit on behalf of Indianapolis-based Scannell Properties, which is developing the project at Cecil Field.
Boeing announced the groundbreaking of the component facility in February. Located at 5869 Approach Way on roughly 18 acres, it’s expected to cost a minimum of $26 million. The component facility could deliver more than 175 ready-for-issue avionics parts a year.
Records said the one-story building is for the repair and servicing of aircraft components.
The building’s exterior features include a loading dock and service area, sanitary lift station, parking lot and service roads, and an outdoor storage area for hazardous waste and materials. The building consists of a general and specialized work area, break room, offices and meeting and training spaces.
The facility is set to add additional jobs in addition to the $100 million Boeing maintenance, repair and overhaul facility being built at the site.
That project, being built by The Haskell Co., involves a large hangar building for aircraft maintenance, repairs and overhaul as well as access roads, a guard house, and buildings for office space and storage space.
Together, the complex is one of the most significant manufacturing projects on the First Coast.
The main project will consolidate eight hangars under a single roof, totaling about 270,000 square feet of hangar space with an additional 100,000 square feet of office space, where workers will support U.S. Navy and Air Force aircraft.
“There is a talent pool here that is growing. This is meant to be another center of aerospace,” Boeing Global Services CEO Ted Colbert III previously said. “We want to be here, and we want to help in that growth plan.”
The Boeing project was incentivized with a $425,000 infrastructure grant.
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