Mayo Clinic in Florida is working on its entrance and exit off Butler Boulevard — Transformation Way — at its Southside campus.
The project will make its second main access into the Jacksonville medical complex look more like its main entrance off San Pablo Road.
Mayo is at 4500 San Pablo Road S. at northwest San Pablo Road and Butler Boulevard.
The address for the second entrance and exit is 4786 Transformation Way, which connects with Worrall Way in the campus.
The entrance also offers access to the 252-room Hilton Hotel at Mayo Clinic that will open at 4745 Transformation Way on the campus. The hotel is accepting reservations starting Oct. 1.
The entrance to the Mayo Clinic in Florida off Butler Boulevard.
The city issued a permit Aug. 19 for Jacksonville-based Auld & White Constructors LLC to make site improvements for the Transformation Way project and associated site work at a project cost of $946,985.
The city continues to review a building permit for an estimated $2.5 million project for hardscaping to include a retaining wall, fountains and site improvements for what it calls Mayo Clinic’s South Entrance on 16.02 acres.
Plans show drivers would make a right turn into the entrance and a right turn out of it.
Senior Communications Specialist Tia Ford said by email Aug. 15 that Mayo Clinic opened the entrance to the campus off the Butler Boulevard westbound ramp in 2022.
She said the existing access point is both an entrance and an exit.
The new entrance landscaping and sign to the Mayo Clinic in Florida off Butler Boulevard.
Travelers heading west may access the entrance along the on-ramp to Butler Boulevard.
Those heading east along Butler Boulevard who want to take that new entrance may take the San Pablo Road exit under the Butler Boulevard bridge, make a U-turn and enter the campus on the right-hand side of the road.
Ford said that entrance and exit now will be further developed similar in design to the main San Pablo entrance and exit.
She said the new entry road was in design after that entrance opened.
“We are creating an entry portal similar to the San Pablo entrance to campus. It will be adjusted to be appropriate for the speed of JTB compared to San Pablo Road,” Ford said, referring to the full name of J. Turner Butler Boulevard.
Ervin Lovett & Miller of Jacksonville is the landscape architect.
In addition to the main San Pablo Road entrance, the campus can be accessed from points along WM Davis Parkway, which runs to the north and west of the existing property.
Mayo Clinic is preparing to expand into property north of WM Davis Parkway.