Local audio-visual company transforms office into interactive showcase (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Business Journal) — When AnuVision Technologies was founded in 2020, it was fully remote. After five years marked by growth, the woman- and minority-owned Jacksonville small business has unveiled its newly remodeled office on the Southside.
Audio-visual technology is a catch-all term for the company, which has a portfolio of products ranging from LED walls and interactive panels, scoreboards and field sound systems to hologram technology.
The building itself isn’t incredibly new — AnuVision bought the property at 11417 Saints Road in January 2024 — but the renovations hope to help make the company a resource center to the city’s growing technology sector, Mark Elliot, marketing manager and account executive, told the Business Journal.
Still a warehouse, the approximately 14,500-square-foot building needed a full rework. Construction involved blowing out the walls and creating a new everything.
“The vision behind this was to create not only an office and a showroom, but an innovation lab, so we can bring the technology, install it in our office, and people can see it and feel it,” said Elliot, who noted the building also has a podcast studio, with people already lined up to use it.
Growth, in both employees and clients, spurred the decision to build out the space.
Though Elliot wouldn’t go into specifics, he confirmed the renovation cost “more than a couple million — very north of just a few.”
AnuVision’s invested a lot in both the building and the mission to arm Jacksonville with the technology needed to make it a stronger hub.
The original space had about 6,900 square feet in office space with the remaining square footage left to warehouse storage, said Elliot. This renovation ate into the latter and now has around 7,400 square feet of office.
That addition, even just an extra 500 square feet or so, made way for more interactive technology exhibits, Elliot explained, including an LED viewing area with virtual reality headsets.
“We dabble in a lot of innovative technology, so we try to bring it first to the Jacksonville market,” said Elliot. “(Jacksonville is) a growing area, but we get kind of bypassed. We’re a pretty large city, but we get bypassed a lot in technology, especially in Florida, so just trying to be a front runner of it.”