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<\/p>\nThe city issued a construction permit Jan. 8 for The Haskell Co. for the first phase to convert the former Tyson Foods Inc. plant in Northwest Jacksonville into a facility for Thomas Foods International USA at a project cost of almost $2.77 million.<\/p>\n
The scope of work for the project at 5441 W. Fifth St. is divided into two phases.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Permit documents show each of the two phases will require a permit.<\/p>\n
\u00a0The city began reviewing a permit application created Oct. 24 for the entire project at an estimated project cost of almost $6.1 million for the 45,000-square-foot building\u2019s use as a meat-processing facility.<\/p>\n
According to the application, the first phase of the project involves the maintenance and upgrade of an existing facility originally built for meat-processing operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe facility will continue to operate as a meat processing plant upon completion,\u201d the permit description says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis phase includes maintenance and upgrades to an existing facility originally built for meat processing operations. The work involves re-roofing; plumbing fixture replacement near gang RR; exterior improvements; replacement of selected architectural and structural elements; and installation of new finishes and fixtures to enhance performance, durability, and compliance with current standards and insurance requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n
It says the first phase is for a Certificate of Completion.<\/p>\n
It says the second phase will include the installation of a fire suppression sprinkler system and construction of a fire pump room, along with the installation of process equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haskell will submit all required construction documents to obtain a building permit and Certificate of Occupancy.<\/p>\n
Thomas Foods International USA bought the former Tyson Foods Inc. plant Sept. 17 for $3.55 million, another step in showing it matched the city description of a code-named company seeking to restart it.<\/p>\n
Thomas Foods International is an Australian meat-processing and exporting company. It specializes in beef, lamb and goat products. It also sells seafood.<\/p>\n
Thomas Foods says it processes and distributes more than 100 million pounds of meat products a year in the U.S. from its Lakeside Processing Facility in Swedesboro, New Jersey.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It makes prepackaged, retail-ready meat products for retail stores that \u201carrive prepared for immediate display in your meat case.\u201d<\/p>\n
Its U.S. headquarters is in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Founded in 1988 by Chris Thomas, the company is now led by his son, Darren.<\/p>\n
The company says it has teams in Australia, the U.S., China, Japan and Europe.<\/p>\n
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The Tyson Foods Inc. plant in Northwest Jacksonville at 5441 W. Fifth St. closed in January 2024, cutting 219 jobs.<\/p>\n
Colliers<\/p>\n
Project Pan<\/strong><\/p>\n Thomas Foods matches the code-named Project Pan that was approved for $800,000 in city incentives Aug. 26 by the Jacksonville City Council to establish a meat-processing operation.<\/p>\n Resolution 2025-0607 and supporting city records identify Project Pan as an international meat processor interested in investing $28 million into a vacant facility. Based on an independent comparison, the facility as described in city documents matched the vacant former Tyson Foods Inc. plant at 5441 W. Fifth St.<\/p>\n Bruss Co. of Springdale, Arkansas, sold the plant to Thomas, which bought it through TFI USA Properties LLC.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bruss Co. bought the plant in 2012 for $1.5 million.<\/p>\n The almost 47,000-square-foot warehouse was built in 1974 on 4.29 acres. In return for the public funding, Project Pan would build-out the 50,000-square-foot facility, where it would create up to 100 new jobs within the first three years of operations.<\/p>\n Those jobs would pay an annual wage of $59,211 plus a benefits package equal to about $16,000 per employee, a staff report on the legislation states.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to an amendment added to the legislation, the REV grant would be terminated if the company does not create 10 jobs by 2029.<\/p>\n According to the OED report, the facility would produce 1 million pounds of finished product weekly.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ed Randolph, the city\u2019s executive director of economic development, said Project Pan would bring in meat products from overseas and would be a heavy port user. He said Jacksonville was competing for the plant with Savannah, Georgia, which also provides port access.\u00a0<\/p>\n Tyson closed in 2024<\/p>\n Tyson Foods Inc. notified the state and Mayor Donna Deegan in November 2023 that it was closing its Jacksonville plant effective Jan. 8, 2024, cutting 219 jobs.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city issued a construction permit Jan. 8 for The Haskell Co. for the first phase to convert…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":335819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-503663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115865042887366792","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}