Axionlog is moving ahead with a major expansion of its North Jacksonville cold- and dry-storage campus, filing for a construction permit that would add roughly 59,336 square feet and bring the site to about 97,711 square feet in total. That buildout would more than double the operation the company opened in recent years, right in the thick of the Blount Island logistics corridor.
According to the company’s permit filing, the project would tack 59,336 square feet onto the existing 38,375-square-foot building at 11370 New Berlin Road. The city is reviewing a construction permit estimated at about $7.59 million. The city had already signed off on a site-clearing permit on Dec. 2, 2025, and a foundation permit on Jan. 27, 2026, for the same project. Axionlog wrapped up the first phase of the cold- and dry-storage warehouse in 2022, setting the stage for this bigger build. Those details were reported by the Jax Daily Record.
What Axionlog is building
Axionlog says its North Jacksonville site is being built out as a full-service, multi-temperature hub, with freezer space, a cool dock, office area and dry storage to support foodservice distribution. As described by JAXPORT, the company initially broke ground on a facility of roughly 38,000 square feet that was designed from day one to grow toward about 100,000 square feet and to create up to 60 jobs within five years.
Axionlog's Jacksonville site describes the building as a tilt-up metal structure with multiple loading docks and pallet positions, intentionally set up for future expansion as demand ramps up. In other words, the expansion now in the works is exactly what the original blueprint had in mind.
Permits, contractor and timeline
The current project tracks plans that reach back to late 2019 and 2020, when the JAX Chamber and JAXPORT first rolled out Axionlog's North Jacksonville project and floated an initial job estimate in the 25-to-60 range. The city signed off on a $2.9 million construction permit for the first phase in June 2021.
Property records list landowner Faye Road Associates LLC and V. Paulius & Associates as the owner and contractor, respectively, for both the original build and the expansion now under review, according to the Jax Daily Record. The construction permit for the new work is still in the city’s pipeline, so any shovels-in-the-ground timeline will hinge on final approvals and contractor scheduling.
Why this matters for the port and jobs
A larger cold-chain footprint here would strengthen Jacksonville's position as a refrigerated logistics hub and give local exporters more room to consolidate goods headed for Latin American routes. JAXPORT has pointed to the site’s proximity to Blount Island and the port’s intermodal connections as a key reason Axionlog chose Jacksonville for its U.S. operations.
For a company that focuses on moving restaurant supplies across the hemisphere, the extra square footage translates into more pallet positions, more dock space and the potential for additional local hires as the operation scales up. The permit may still be under review, but the expansion itself fits neatly into a multi-year run of refrigerated-warehouse growth around JAXPORT, keeping Jacksonville high on the list for companies moving imported and exported foodservice goods through the region.
