Pallets in St. Johns County, Florida
St. Johns County, south of Duval, is where new warehouse supply is arriving: last-mile delivery, shell warehousing, construction supply and retail. Its pallets are new-building demand and small loads.
The I-95 corridor
Foundry Commercial, an Orlando-based developer, with Barings, began site work in January 2024 on three shell warehouses on about 43 acres at 3405 International Golf Parkway, off I-95: Building 100 of 193,600 square feet, Building 200 of 205,700 and Building 300 of 110,600, almost 510,000 square feet in all. Miller Construction is the contractor (Daily Record).
A shell building is an empty box. Its first tenant buys or borrows racking, sets up a dock, and begins to receive freight on mixed pallets. Early weeks bring a lopsided stack of cores because nothing has been sorted yet.
| Stage | Pallets |
|---|---|
| Fit-out | Few; mostly delivery pallets |
| Ramp-up | A rising mixed stack |
| Steady state | A weekly flow of surplus and a need for sorted 48x40 |
The region delivered 6.8 million square feet of industrial space in 2023, as much as from 2019 to 2022 combined (Daily Record). Interstate 95 links the corridor north to Duval and its terminals.
Questions a new tenant can settle early
- Which pallet size will inbound freight use most?
- Does the lease allow outdoor pallet storage?
- Who owns the racking pallets arrive on?
- Where will empty pallets stage before collection?
A tenant that records its first month of pallet counts has a baseline every later request can quote. Bulk loads and scheduled pickups cover the steady state.
St. Augustine
St. Augustine is the county seat (ZIPs 32084, 32086, 32092, 32095). Tourism is its dominant economy, so pallets come from hospitality supply, construction supply and light industry. Interstate 95, US 1 and State Road A1A run north-south; State Roads 16 and 312 run east-west and SR 207 runs northeast-southwest.
- Hotels and restaurants take deliveries on mixed pallets.
- Construction supply dealers hold heavier stacks.
- Light industrial users have cores from small production runs.
Tourism makes the volume seasonal: a restaurant row that is busy in spring leaves more pallets than the same row in a quiet week. A request should give the busy and quiet counts, the sizes, any pooled pallets set aside, and which road a truck would come off. Retail and restaurants covers back-door piles.
What the county ships on
| Business | Pallets |
|---|---|
| Last-mile delivery | Sorted 48x40, returning surplus |
| Shell warehousing tenants | Mixed stacks as they ramp up |
| Construction supply | Heavy, lower-grade |
| Retail | Small piles |
See construction supply and selling pallets.
Roads and places
Interstate 95 crosses six interchanges in the county, US 1 runs through the east and State Road A1A follows the coast. The county is large and drive times differ, so a request from Nocatee, Sawgrass, Fruit Cove or St. Augustine Beach should name the community.
Questions
Which road serves the county?
I-95 runs through it, with six interchanges.
Keep reading
Sources, reviewed 12 November 2026: International Golf Parkway warehouses (Daily Record); Warehouse space push (Daily Record); St. Johns County, Florida (Wikipedia); St. Augustine, Florida (Wikipedia).