This article excerpt originally appeared on Jacksonville Daily Record.
The Criterion Ladera partnership bought the land from BBKR Development Partners, which paid $4.85 million in August 2022 for the vacant land from Tamaya Loan Acquisition Inc.
The 24/7 hospital will be Nutex Health, which announced in June 2022 it would build and open a facility there.
The city also has been reviewing a permit application for Houston-based Nutex Health to build and open an ER and micro-hospital facility at a project cost of almost $21 million.
It submitted a building-permit application to the city in July 2023.
Hoar Construction LLC of Birmingham, Alabama, is the contractor for the 28,303-square-foot hospital on 7.85 acres at 12645 Beach Blvd. Gresham Smith of Tampa is the architect.
Plans show eight emergency department exam rooms, eight inpatient beds and an imaging department with MRI, CT scan and X-ray services.
BBKR Development Partners LLC is shown as the property owner. A developer was not identified.
The permit application calls it a specialty hospital, which Nutex Health says offers individualized medical care around the clock.
The health care company says that in addition to ER services, specialty hospitals can observe patients overnight or admit them for an extended stay. It says its facilities offer medical treatment, including drug and alcohol detox services and behavioral services.
Founded in 2011, Nutex Health says its Hospital Division comprises of 21 micro-hospitals, specialty hospitals and hospital outpatient departments in nine states.
NutexHealth.com says it has three ER hospitals coming soon in Florida in Jacksonville, Miami and Odessa.
