USNR has been located near downtown since 1910. Their plant is along the old S-Line near Myrtle Avenue and Kings Road in New Town. The old Fanatics warehouse is roughly 100,000 square feet larger than their long time home. I wonder if they are going to completely relocate from the existing site and if they do, what happens to it?
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Inside USNR's plant in 1965. Image courtesy of Florida State ArchivesQuoteExclusive: Manufacturer buys West Jacksonville warehouse
After sitting vacant for four years, the former home of Fanatics Inc. has a new owner.
USNR paid $2.75 million for 6630 Broadway Ave., a 160,000-square-foot warehouse on the city's Westside, said Tyler Newman, associate director of the industrial group with Cushman & Wakefield of Florida Inc. in Jacksonville.
Newman and Jacob Horsley, an associate director with Cushman & Wakefield, represented the seller, a Kansas City investment group that had owned the building for 20 years.
John Richardson, president of Newmark Grubb Phoenix Realty Group in Jacksonville, represented USNR.
USNR, based in Washington State, manufactures equipment for sawmills, according to its website. A USNR representative was not immediately available for comment Wednesday morning.
USNR owns two industrial buildings in Northwest Jacksonville at the intersection of West State Street and North Myrtle Avenue, according to Duval County property records. Those properties total about 69,360 square feet.
http://www.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/news/2014/04/16/exclusive-manufacturer-buys-west-jacksonville.html
USNR urban core manufacturing plant today:
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^an old S-Line rail spur that used to run down the center of the street to serve other manufacturing plants in the old downtown warehouse district.